Posts in Category: Alberta
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Banff Springs GC Hole-by-Hole
Stanley Thompson is unquestionably Canada’s most revered golf architect. He is to Canada what Old Tom Morris is to Scotland and Donald Ross to United States, and strangely enough both of them have a connection to Banff. Among the 175 or so courses Thompson is credited with nine are in Canadian National Parks of which […]
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Links of GlenEagles Hole-by-Hole
This will be my third hole-by-hole post from a recent trip to Alberta. The first two were from the Links and Old courses at Wolf Creek, both in the SCORE Golf Top 100. In this post Alison and I will play The Links of GlenEagles in Cochrane, just to the west of Calgary. This is […]
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Wolf Creek Old Course – Hole-by-Hole
In late August 2025 Alison and I embarked on a mini-golf tour of Alberta which started with the Wolf Creek Links course just outside of Ponoka. As I explained in my hole-by-hole post, avoiding the bunkers at all costs is the only way to score well on this Rod Whitman layout that is quite wide […]
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Wolf Creek Links Course – Hole-by-Hole
Wolf Creek Golf Resort, just outside Ponoka, Alberta and about 30 minutes north of Red Deer, is a 36 hole destination with two completely different courses designed by Rod Whitman, the same architect behind Cabot Links, the first true links course in Canada and currently #3 on the SCORE Golf Top 100. Years before Mr. […]
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Jasper National Park – Some Highlights
Alison and I have had two visits to Jasper National Park in the last nine months. The first was to spend some time with our son Dale, Kerrie and our granddaughter Nina over the holidays. The second was to meet and greet our newest grandchild, Della just a few weeks ago. With both visits we […]
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Jasper Park Lodge GC – Hole by Hole
Stanley Thompson is the undisputed master golf architect of Canada with five of his designs making the top 10 of SCORE Golf’s Top 100 list in 2022. His work with the Canadian national park system has left us a legacy of wonderful golf courses in some of the most stunning locations on the planet including […]