Posts in Tag: golf hole by hole
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Laval-sur-le-Lac Green Course
Laval is the third largest city in Quebec with a population of just under 450,000 and has a recorded history dating back to 1636. There were 14 different municipal units on the island that became the city of Laval when they were amalgamated in 1965. One of these was Laval-sur-le-Lac which was and remains one […]
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Paraparaumu Beach G.C. Hole by Hole
In 2025 Alison and I were fortunate enough to play three great New Zealand golf courses, Kauri Cliffs, Cape Kidnappers and the Coronet course at Millbrook Resort. Returning to the North Island in 2026 we only had the chance to play one course, Paraparaumu Beach, which is considered to be the spiritual home of Kiwi […]
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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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St. Ignace GC – Hole-by-Hole
Two of my last hole-by-hole posts came from Kauri Cliffs and Cape Kidnappers, two New Zealand courses that are rated in the top 100 in the world. So you might ask yourself why I’m doing a hole-by-hole on St. Ignace, a course that doesn’t even show up on the Tourism New Brunswick list of the […]
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Millbrook Coronet Course Hole by Hole
Alison and I have a free day in Queenstown in the middle of the Adventures Abroad tour of New Zealand and have opted to play golf at the Millbrook Resort in nearby Arrowtown. This is a five star resort on 650 acres of prime real estate at the foot of the Remarkables Mountain Range. It […]
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Kauri Cliffs Hole by Hole
In my last post from New Zealand Alison and I visited the small town of Waipu which was founded by Nova Scotians almost 175 years ago. In this post we’ll make another Nova Scotia/New Zealand connection as we play the amazing Kauri Cliffs golf course to see how it compares with our own Cabot Cliffs, […]