Canada’s first true links course, built directly on an old mining site and the tidal flats beside Inverness Harbour on Cape Breton Island. Rod Whitman’s design strongly embraces the ground game - fairways tumble and roll, winds shape every decision, and the ocean is a constant presence along the routing. Unpretentious in the best links tradition, improving with each play.

One of Canada’s oldest and most venerable clubs, a Harry Colt and C.H. Alison routing of quiet, enduring brilliance. The course is understated by design — no dramatic views, no evidently signature holes, just a brilliant design across gently rolling terrain. Immaculately maintained and deeply private, Toronto Golf Club is among the most rewarding rounds in the country for those fortunate enough to experience it.

Stanley Thompson’s mountain companion to Banff, built in 1925 on a glacially formed plateau surrounded by the peaks of the Canadian Rockies. Thompson’s clever routing instincts are evident throughout in the brilliant use of elevation, visual deceptions, and mimmicing of distant mountain ranges in the bunker designs. Lac Beauvert and surrounding wilderness make for a setting that is impossible to replicate. A World Top 100 golf course.

Stanley Thompson’s design for the famous Royal York Hotel has become an all-time classic and Canada’s most celebrated tournament venue. The heavily rolling terrain is some of the most exciting land for a parkland layout and Thompson’s routing made the most of it. Working up and over the undulating topography to instill variety, visual pleasanties, and strategic deceptions.

Stanley Thompson’s 1937 routing across a densely forested hillside in West Vancouver remains one of the great private golf experiences in Canada. The property’s dramatic terrain produces sharp elevation changes, blind approaches, and a routing that feels entirely natural despite the complexity of the land. Capilano is home to one of the greatest opening and closing holes in the country.

Perched above the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Cape Breton’s northern tip, Cabot Cliffs is among the finest new golf courses built anywhere in the world this century. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw sculpted a routing of incredible drama and variety — clifftop holes of breathtaking exposure give way to duneland corridors and intimidating green sites that are sure to be both visually dramatic and strategically complex.

Stanley Thompson’s mountains and oceans masterpiece. Carefully routed from Middle Head Island through Cape Breton National Park following the natural contours of the land with extraordinary care. Valley holes give way to headland views, and the Clyburn River crosses the layout repeatedly. While distant, Highlands Links is among the most accessible great courses anywhere in the World.

Perched on a mountainside above Nicola Lake, Sagebrush’s layout dances in the high desert thanks to Rod Whitman and co-designer Richard Zokol, who moved little and imposed less. Fairways follow the natural fall of the land, which is extreme at times, while greens are impossingly large and sharply contoured. The result is a course with genuine depth and a character that can’t be manufactured.

Stanley Thompson’s most famous design set within the Canadian Rockies. The Rundle and Devil’s Cauldron holes are among the most photographed in the world, but it is the routing’s intimate relationship with the Bow River and surrounding peaks that elevates this beyond spectacle. Thompson’s bunkering and green complexes remain imaginative and demanding, a fitting match for one of the great natural settings in golf.

This Harry Colt & C.H. Alison masterpiece is deeply regarded as one of the finest designs in Canada. The routing is exceptionally strong - focused on topographical and strategic variety - laid over the heaving land, criss crossing river streams and valleys, and segmented in distinct tracts in a triangular fashion. Recently renovated - to both wide public acclaim and criticisms - by MacKenzie & Ebert, the duo focused on reshaping green surrounds with emphasis on expansive run offs.