Full Breakdown of Rankings: 100-91 | 90 – 81 | 80 – 71 | 70 – 61 | 60 – 51 | 50 – 41 | 40 – 31 | 30 – 21 | 20 – 11 | 10 – 1 |
80. Copper Creek
PUBLIC
Kleinburg, Ont.
Doug Carrick, 2002
SG Rating: 7.5833
2022 Rank: 74
Doug Carrick’s Copper Creek makes use of varied terrain, with several front-nine holes winding through a wooded valley and most of the back nine laid out over tabletop land. The drop-shot 10th, guarded by water, tempts golfers with how much of the hazard they wish to take on.
79. Muskoka Lakes
PRIVATE
Port Carling, Ont.
Stanley Thompson, 1922 (Doug Carrick)
SG Rating: 7.5835
2022 Rank: NR
Stanley Thompson’s 100-plus-year-old Muskoka Lakes is a short but charming course with some wonderful par 3s and a number of exciting short par 4s. Its lovely setting and fine finishing hole have helped it to a Top 100 position for the first time, and it debuts at No. 79.
78. Wolf Creek – Links
PUBLIC
Ponoka, Alta.
Rod Whitman, 1996/2010
SG Rating: 7.5838
2022 Rank: 52
With two Rod Whitman nines built a decade apart, the Links Course at Wolf Creek is favoured slightly over Whitman’s original course at the Edmonton-area club. That’s likely because of the newer side, where Whitman’s trademark blowout bunkers and cool greens really shine.
77. Magna
PRIVATE
Aurora, Ont.
Doug Carrick, 2000
SG Rating: 7.5890
2022 Rank: 93
The opulent Magna is a big, bold, bunker-filled course by Doug Carrick that played host to the best women golfers in the world at the 2019 CPKC Women’s Open. Conditioning is marvellous but the architecture is good too, with Carrick’s par 5s here particularly well crafted.
76. Glendale
PRIVATE
Edmonton, Alta.
Norman Woods, 1960
SG Rating: 7.5961
2022 Rank: NR
Edmonton’s Glendale is the design work of former Stanley Thompson associate Norman Woods. Built through a forested landscape, its front nine features a unique routing of three par 3s, three par 4s and three par 5s. Overall, the property is quite dramatic and picturesque.
75. Black Bear Ridge
PUBLIC
Belleville, Ont.
Brian Magee, 2005
SG Rating: 7.6015
2022 Rank: 63
The late Brian Magee bypassed big-name architects to design his Black Bear Ridge course himself and the result is commendable. The Belleville, Ont., course features several wonderful drop-shot holes and a climbing par-5 closer that demands your attention.
74. Scarboro G&CC
PRIVATE
Scarborough, Ont.
A.W. Tillinghast, 1912 (Ian Andrew/Gil Hanse)
SG Rating: 7.6087
2022 Rank: 72
The lone remaining Canadian design of A.W. Tillinghast, Scarboro was built on a dramatic property full of drops, twists and turns. The east-end Toronto layout has several great short par 4s and a unique finishing frame where golfers must hit across a road in front of the tee deck.
73. Talking Rock
PUBLIC
Chase, B.C.
Graham Cooke/Wayne Carleton, 2007
SG Rating: 7.6155
2022 Rank: 62
The word on Graham Cooke and Wayne Carleton’s Talking Rock has been out for a while now. The pair altered a routing by Les Furber and created a fantastic course with dramatic mountain views and an amazing finishing hole along Little Shuswap Lake. The course was largely spared from last summer’s devastating area fires.
72. Wildfire
PRIVATE
Lakefield, Ont.
Thomas McBroom, 2003
SG Rating: 7.6169
2022 Rank: 76
Thomas McBroom’s Wildfire uses parts of the Canadian shield for aesthetic beauty and secluded playing corridors. The course traverses through a variety of different landscapes, with woodlands, marshlands and heathlands coming into play and McBroom mixes bold holes with subtler efforts.
71. The Ridge at Manitou
PUBLIC
McKellar, Ont.
Thomas McBroom, 2004
SG Rating: 7.6280
2022 Rank: 57
One of his later Muskoka-area efforts, Thomas McBroom’s Ridge at Manitou is tamer than some of his other courses but is nevertheless quite dramatic. Once again, McBroom incorporated rocky outcroppings into his design with the par-5 18th, featuring a lake backdrop, the best hole here.