It is that time of year again! To celebrate the release of SCOREGolf’s Top 59 Canadian Public Courses, we are giving away a foursome to every course on the list! From Vancouver Island to Newfoundland, Canada is blessed with more than 2,000 beautiful public golf courses. This is your chance to play at one of the 59 best with friends and family. Make sure you follow along everyday on our Facebook Page, starting at #59 and working our way up to #1 for your chance to enter! For full contest rules, click here.
When SCOREGolf first launched its Top List in 2013, they chose 59 to coincide with golf’s coveted score, which had been carded at the game’s highest levels only a few times. Despite Jim Furyk coming along and bettering the score when he shot a 58 in 2016, the list remains the same size this year.
Using a rating scale that measures beauty, strategy, challenge, design, conditioning, Par 3s, Par 4s, Par 5s and fun factor, below is the Top 59 Public Golf Courses in Canada in 2019.
Check out our previous posts in the countdown:
59-50 | 49-40 | 39-30| 29-20 | 19-11
10-01 of SCOREGolf‘s Top 59 Canadian Public Courses
10. Predator Ridge – Ridge
Doug Carrick spruced up nine existing holes and added nine more in 2009 to give Predator Ridge a second course in The Ridge. Cut mostly through a wooded hillside, exposed rock outcroppings, tall pine trees and the shimmering waters of Lake Okanagan provide a stunning contrast in colours.
Giveaway Date: August 17, 2019
Winner: Braden Stanley
09. Tobiano
Few settings can rival what Thomas McBroom had to work with at Tobiano, a desert course on rumpled land overlooking Kamloops Lake. McBroom simply plopped tees, greens and fairways onto the dunes-covered property and the result was an eye-popping course with some of the best hero shots in Canada.
Giveaway Date: August 18, 2019
Winner: Darrell Beck
08. Humber Valley
A Doug Carrick creation, Humber Valley might be the most overlooked great course in Canada, though it gets its due on SCOREGolf’s rankings. With its two nines cascading in opposite directions from a hilltop clubhouse, Humber Valley offers a sensational golf experience on the Humber River, with its 10th hole among the best par 4s in the country.
Giveaway Date: August 18, 2019
Winner: Carol Lahey
07. Cape Breton Highlands Links
Cape Breton Highlands Links is a course that is truly unlike any other in Canada. The routing is sublime as Stanley Thompson takes you from the Atlantic Ocean, to the mountains, into a valley and back to the ocean again. Humps and bumps all the way around. Conditioning can be an issue given its remote location.
Giveaway Date: August 19, 2019
Winner: Carl Stapleton
06. Muskoka Bay
Muskoka Bay is an architectural masterpiece that opened in 2006. Doug Carrick and his then-design associate, Ian Andrew, took full advantage of exposed rock and marshy terrain to build a near-perfect front nine and a more challenging back nine. The finish is among the strongest anywhere.
Giveaway Date: August 19, 2019
Winner: Warren Garton
05. Greywolf
Whenever Greywolf, the mountain course in Panorama, B.C., is discussed, its par-3 sixth hole, Cliffhanger, garners much of the ink. The all-world, canyon-spanning, clifftop hero hole is worth the green fee alone. Aside from it, though, Greywolf is an all-around solid design with Carrick learning about building in the mountains from visiting Stanley Thompson’s Banff Springs.
Giveaway Date: August 20, 2019
Winner: Anita Leskie
04. Fairmont Banff Springs
One of the most well-known Canadian golf courses outside of Canada, the Stanley Thompson masterpiece at the base of Banff’s castle hotel is as memorable as they come. Distinctive bunkering plus the par-3 fourth hole, The Devil’s Cauldron, are Banff’s hallmarks, though the 14th and 15th holes — the original 18th and first — may be the course’s best.
Giveaway Date: August 20, 2019
Winner: Ashley Jupp
03. Cabot Links
Cabot Links, Rod Whitman’s true links in Inverness, N.S., is in the No. 3 spot on the Top 59. With views of the ocean available from every inch of the golf course and the elements largely determining its toughness on any given day, Cabot Links is the purest golf experience in Canada.
Giveaway Date: August 21, 2019
Winner: Melinda Ovens
02. Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge
A course’s fun factor carries the most weighting of the nine categories used to rate golf courses so it’s no surprise that Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge is so high up on SCOREGolf’s rankings. This is Stanley Thompson’s most joyous course, not only in its sheer beauty, but also in its awesome and sometimes quirky design.
Giveaway Date: August 21, 2019
Winner: Heather Atherton
01. Cabot Cliffs
Coming in at No. 1 on SCOREGolf’s Top 59 is Cabot Cliffs, which hasn’t held anything but the top spot since opening. The Bill Coore-Ben Crenshaw jaw-dropper contains several spectacular oceanside holes, holes through high dunes and holes on both high and low lands. It has it all and it’s the best course in Canada.
Giveaway Date: August 22, 2019
Winners: Bernie Legatto & Braedan Heyland
Always find it amazing how Manitoba seems to always get overlooked. We have an amazing amount of fantastic golf courses.
Very poor job of displaying this.
I almost totally disagree with the BC listings. I would say you have them in the reverse order.
I don’t think your 59 contest should only be for people with Facebook.
I’m a regular customer on Golftown but not on Facebook and can’t take part.
You need to review this before the contest starts.
Hello Dave, Facebook is not the only way you can enter. Attached are the rules: https://blog.golftown.com/en/official-rules-canadas-top-59-golf-giveaway/
It would be great to play any of these Canadian golf courses.
I have had the great fortune to have played a few of the top 100 and although old age has taken over I would truly love to play a few more.Great job Golf Town and Score golf.
There are no courses on the prairies How sad. I won’t vote, because If I win, I won’t be able to golf that far away. I wonder if you have been to some of our golf courses.
How are the winners determined? I’ve heard it’s just friends of emplyees who win?
Hello Brian, The winners are selected out of our head office. It is random selection. Winners have won from across Canada.
Great list of courses with Cliffs leading the way again. Just finished caddying there!
Why not publish the winner’s names and where they are from.
Banff should not be in the top10. The layout is mediocre, and very outdated. Also very silly that you have to hit over the road on the 18th hole if you’re cutting the corner. Others who are avid golfers have said the same thing. Not worth $265 to play. Tobiano blows Banff out of the water and is the best course i’ve ever played. Greywolf is also a spectacular course.
Very nice .played about 10 of them