The wait is finally over. SCOREGolf’s Top 100 is the most authoritative golf course ranking in Canada and has been igniting debates every two years since 1988.

In celebration of SCOREGolf’s Top 100 Golf Courses Ranking, we recently hosted Canada’s Top 100 Golf Giveaway, where we gave away a foursome more than half of the courses on the list. With thousands of entries from coast-to-coast, we want to thank everyone that entered and congratulate all of our winners. And congratulations to our Grand Prize winner Pamela Rawling from Toronto, Ont., who won our Ultimate Whistler Golf Getaway – a trip for four to Whistler and will get to play Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Big Sky and Nicklaus North.

Here is the 2018 SCOREGolf Top 100.

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100-81 of SCOREGolf‘s Top 100 Canadian Courses

100.  Seguin Valley

A newcomer to the Top 100, Seguin Valley’s routing was done by David L. Moote with the construction completed by Ted George of Bruce Evans Construction. A series of secluded holes cut through forest and rocky outcroppings are highlighted by the par-3 seventh hole. It spans McCrae Lake and features a 180-yard bridge connecting tee deck and green.

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Winner: Matt Stam

99. Heron Point

Long viewed as one of ClubLink’s top golf courses and one of Thomas McBroom’s strongest tests, Heron Point continues to be a mainstay on SCOREGolf’s Top 100. The property on which the course is built is fantastic, but tricky, undulating greens mean you have to be on with your flatstick from start to finish.

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98. Bayview

Bayview is one of Robbie Robinson’s finest designs and the influence Stanley Thompson had on Robinson is especially clear on the course’s great set of par 3s. A recent rework of the finishing holes by consulting architect Doug Carrick has been well received. Bayview is unique in that it begins with two par 5s.

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97. Credit Valley

The combined work of Stanley Thompson and one of his disciples, Robbie Robinson, Credit Valley is played largely in a valley alongside the Credit River. It’s a tremendous example of how thinning out trees alongside fairways can allow for creative shot-making and escapes. Smart tweaks have been made to its opening highland holes.

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96. Bear Mountain – Mountain

Wow factor personified. Bear Mountain’s Mountain Course is a thrill ride with a finishing stretch that’s well worth the price of admission. The highlight here is the clifftop par-3 14th overlooking Victoria Harbour in the distance. It was built by Jack Nicklaus as extra betting hole but was smartly brought into the regular rotation.

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Winner: Jason Murden

95. Le Diable

Le Diable — The Devil — is one of several courses in Quebec’s popular Mont Tremblant area. Designed by Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry, its trademark red-sand bunkers and large greens were on full display during Mike Weir’s Skins Game victory in 1999 over John Daly, David Duval and Fred Couples.

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Winner: Ryan O’Neill

94. Lambton

A multitude of famed golf course architects have worked on this property, including 1904 Olympic Golf gold medallist George S. Lyon, Harry Colt, A.W. Tillinghast, Donald Ross and Stanley Thompson. Most recently, Rees Jones has made tweaks to the river-adjacent course that features some very strong par 4s.

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93. Eagle Creek

Located outside of Ottawa, Eagle Creek is one of 1964 U.S. Open champion Ken Venturi’s few designs. It’s carved through thick spruce forest near the Ottawa River and calls for precise shot-making with a number of water hazards and mounding bordering fairways.

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92. Royal Mayfair

Royal Mayfair is one of a number of great golf courses in Edmonton, which is perhaps underrated when it comes to quality golf. A past host of the CP Women’s Open, it’s a Stanley Thompson design with rolling fairways and complex greens. It was given its royal designation by the Queen in 2005.

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91. Point Grey

Coming in at 91, Point Grey gets its acclaim as a great Vancouver club. It’s a straightforward, solid course with no goofy or gimmicky holes that Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour Canada players love when they visit each year for the Freedom 55 Financial Open. David Ayton, Jr., is credited with the 1924 design.

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90.  Riverside

The work of Scottish architect Bill Kinnear, Riverside takes advantage of the natural contours of the land on which it was built with rollicking fairways and wonderful green sites making for a fun round. Stunning views of the Saskatchewan River are available on excellent 18th, which was rejigged by Graham Cooke and Wayne Carleton.

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89. Le Geant

A fitting name for a course if there ever was one, everything at Le Geant is big and bold — the trees, hills, bunkers and green complexes. Views of the Laurentians are available at every turn and several tee boxes are built into the mountains to provide elevation changes and some exciting drives.

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Winner: Joe Chidley

88. Wyndance

Greg Norman’s only Canadian course, Wyndance features several holes circling a large quarry and a couple that run through it. The course does duck into a wooded area in the middle section of the front nine, but it is largely wide open and windswept with plenty of bunkers to gobble up balls.

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Winner: Sally Guy

87. Lookout Point

This Walter J. Travis course starts off with a bang as its downhill par-4 first hole offers views of the Niagara Falls skyline in the distance. (The adjacent 10th is similar.) Most of the rest of the holes are played in a valley with par defending by tight fairways and very small greens.

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86. Cataraqui

Another Stanley Thompson design, Cataraqui has all the trademarks of the legendary architect — finger-style bunkering, subtle-sloping greens and distinctive one-shot holes. The south Kingston course near Lake Ontario requires more brains than brawn as tall pine trees line rolling fairways.

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85. Copper Point – Point

Copper Point makes its debut on the Top 100 after also cracking SCOREGolf’s Top 59 for the first time in 2017. Clearly, SCOREGolf’s panellists have come to take a liking to the Point Course. Built by Alberta-based architect Gary Browning, the Point features wide fairways and plenty of elevation changes through forested terrain.

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Winner: Michael Sera

84. Copper Creek

A Greater Toronto Area favourite among public players, Copper Creek is a Doug Carrick creation that really struts its stuff beginning at the fourth hole. Several holes that wind through a wooded valley are its best, though the course’s most memorable test is the plummeting tee shot on the par-4 10th where water lurks all along the left side.

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Winner: Duncan Roberts

83. Wolf Creek – Old

Rod Whitman’s first creation, the Old Course at Wolf Creek showed the architect’s appreciation for the great links courses of the United Kingdom. It is marked by native fescue areas, devilish pot bunkers and inviting greens that encourage the ball be bounced onto them. The Old Course at Wolf Creek is a great test of restraint and playing smart.

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Winner: Susan Gnam

82. Taboo

Taboo — named for the many areas where you’re not supposed to hit the ball — is a visually spectacular Ron Garl design that has helped make Ontario’s Muskoka Region one of the best golf destinations in the country. Taboo is filled with great holes, most of which feature the granite outcroppings that have come to define Muskoka golf.

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Winner: Christopher Macdougald

81. Kawartha

Stanley Thompson had some great parcels of land to work with in his time and this hilly terrain in Peterborough proper was no different. The long-underrated Kawartha, once private but now open to public play, is full of character and charm and includes some stupendous holes. It concludes with mid-length par 3 over water.

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Winner: Lise Barrette

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