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.
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19-11 of SCOREGolf‘s Top 59 Canadian Public Courses
19. TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley – North
The parkland-style course at the wonderful 54-hole TPC Toronto is now ranked as the property’s second best. It hosts a Mackenzie Tour-PGA Tour Canada event and the players love the sweeping fairways, terrific green sites and conditioning. Doug Carrick crafted this course, as well as the two others at Canada’s only TPC facility.
Giveaway Date: August 13, 2019
Winner: Ian Fidler
18. Nicklaus North
The stunning Nicklaus North is cut through a valley floor at the base of snow-capped mountains and around emerald-coloured lakes. You can tell architect Jack Nicklaus has a particular affinity for the place as its one of few courses that bears his name. It’s his best in Canada.
Giveaway Date: August 13, 2019
Winner: Dustin Castles
17. Eagles Nest
Doug Carrick’s stunning course constructed from a former gravel quarry continues to be one of the best public golf options in the Greater Toronto Area. Running fairways through giant, sculpted dunes filled with golden fescue, Carrick created an adventure-filled round of golf with the property’s high points offering views of downtown Toronto.
Giveaway Date: August 14, 2019
Winner: Mckenzie Mcdermid
16. TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley – Hoot
The Hoot Course continues to lead the way at TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley. Inspired by New Jersey’s Pine Valley, regarded by many as the world’s best golf course, Doug Carrick designed Hoot with generous fairways that are framed by tall pines and filled with rugged waste bunkers.
Giveaway Date: August 14, 2019
Winner: Josh Wells
15. The Links at Crowbush Cove
Thomas McBroom’s seaside delight on the north shore of Prince Edward Island is a links-inspired design with rolling fairways, pot bunkers and multi-tiered greens. It’s a favourite among Islanders and vacationers and boasts some stunning holes on the shore. A must play.
Giveaway Date: August 15, 2019
Winner: Nick Holden
14. Rocky Crest
Thomas McBroom’s Rocky Crest, which opened in 2000, remains an excellent course and is the track that really ignited the Muskoka-area golf boom and inspired other area designs. By routing holes around and over rocky outcroppings, McBroom ushered in a new design style that has since been emulated.
Giveaway Date: August 15, 2019
Winner: Melanie Dekoker
13. Kananaskis Country – Mt. Kidd
The rebuilding of Kananaskis Country GC has been one of the best stories in Canadian golf. Always the higher ranked of the club’s two courses before flooding devastated the property, the Mt. Kidd course returns to that perch. Gary Browning has improved upon Robert Trent Jones’s original design by making it more player friendly.
Giveaway Date: August 16, 2019
Winner: Rob Carey
12. Stewart Creek
The course for which Alberta architect Gary Browning is best known, Stewart Creek in Canmore not only boasts some of the best golf vistas in Canada, it also contains 18 superb holes, as Browning showed great restraint when building a modern-day course in the Rockies.
Giveaway Date: August 16, 2019
Winner: Jacob Buffalo
11. Big Sky
Bob Cupp’s Big Sky is a great example of a mountain course that doesn’t need to be built up into the mountains to be enjoyable. Rather, Cupp laid out a series of excellent holes at the base of Mount Currie that call for golfers to be smart, precise and creative. Oh, and the scenery isn’t bad either.
Giveaway Date: August 17, 2019
Winner: Ken Bellaire