Posts in Tag: golf courses
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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 […]
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Humber Valley Resort Hole by Hole
I’ve waited many years to play the Humber Valley Resort, widely regarded as the finest in Newfoundland and Labrador and on a recent visit finally got that opportunity. I can say without reservation that it more than lived up to its reputation. Please join Alison and me in a hole by hole description of what […]
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Algonquin Golf Course – Hole by Hole
The Algonquin Golf Course, an adjunct to the Algonquin Resort in beautiful St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, New Brunswick is one of the most storied in Canada. It first opened in 1894, making it one of if not the oldest resort course in Canada. However its fame as a great golf course dates from the 1920’s when it […]
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Brunello – Halifax’s Best New Course Hole By Hole
When I first heard that cousins Glen and Rob Dexter were going to build a golf course in Timberlea I was very sceptical for two reasons. Firstly, the landscape in the Timberlea area is the proverbial Canadian ‘ rocks and trees and rocks and trees’ with a little swampland thrown in. Secondly the Dexters were […]
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Owls Head – Not the Place for a Golf Resort
A couple of posts ago I weighed in on what I described as the Peggy’s Cove Kerfuffle and after visiting the site, examining the plans and determining that there had been more than adequate consultation, concluded that those who opposed the changes were flat out wrong. In this post I am going to do the same […]
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Kingswood Golf Course Hole by Hole
Kingswood Golf Course on the outskirts of Fredericton opened in 2003 to accolades including being named Canada’s best new course and I have wanted to play it ever since. The course was originally named The Lynx at Kingswood Park, but thankfully that overly artsy named was dropped in favour of the more properly descriptive Kingswood. […]
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Doonbeg – Playing Trump’s Irish Fantasy
This is my fifth review of golf courses in southwest Ireland based on a trip there in September 2019 with Barry McGuigan’s former company Golf NI. We started out with the fabulous Old Head of Kinsale followed by Arnold Palmer’s magnificent course at Tralee. Unfortunately at our third course, Waterville the weather was so bad […]
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Disney Magnolia Course – Not Mickey Mouse
I first played the Disney Magnolia Golf Course almost forty-two years ago to the day when I returned to play it last week. On the first occasion I was there with three other friends celebrating our graduation from law school. When I returned it was to celebrate my retirement from active practice. Won’t you join […]