Western Canada’s Inland Links

Western Canada’s Inland Links

By: Andrew Penner I’m standing on the 14th tee box – a par-3 that measures a whopping 270 yards – on the Links Course at the Wolf Creek Golf Resort near Ponoka, Alberta. A 30 km/hr wind is whipping out of the west and, to be honest, the only club that...
The Sound and the Fury

The Sound and the Fury

From the tranquility of Cobble Beach to the barhopping action of Blue Mountain, there’s much ado on the stretch from Owen Sound to Collingwood By Ted McIntyre Beautiful cars adorn the parking lots of great golf courses like fine jewellery—baubles testifying to a...
Canadian Rockies Golf

Canadian Rockies Golf

By: Andrew Penner Unquestionably, the 2013 “Flood of the Century” that hit Alberta was a life-changing event for thousands. People all over the world saw the devastating images. While some of the scars remain, the western Canadian province has recovered incredibly...
Canada’s Ultimate Golf Experience

Canada’s Ultimate Golf Experience

Golf with Niagara Parks is an experience that exists nowhere else in Canada. That’s because the three championship golf courses Whirlpool, Battlefield and Ussher’s Creek, located just minutes from Niagara Falls, were designed by arguably Canada’s three greatest golf...
Golf Muskoka for less than you think

Golf Muskoka for less than you think

By: John Gordon “Muskoka,” that storied vacation destination a couple of hours north of Toronto, is said to have been named after a First Nations chief of the mid-1800s. It has come to be synonymous with some clichéd catchphrases: “Towering pines, granite...
Golf’s Treasured Island

Golf’s Treasured Island

From one tip of pastoral Prince Edward Island to the other, Canada’s smallest province has always been big in its ability to inspire. It was just a matter of time, then, that golf would once and for all come under the island’s magical spell. Twenty-seven golf courses,...