The survey results are in and our readers have picked the top golf courses in the Blue Mountain Collingwood area. Here they are in order:
1. The Georgian Bay Club
With spectacular views overlooking Georgian Bay, the Georgian Bay Club is elegance, challenge and scenic beauty wrapped into one. It was the Top Ranked New Private Course in Canada for 2005 by Golf Digest magazine and it’s our top-ranked too. The 217 yard par 3 third hole provides an amazing vista but keep your eye on the ball because the green is on a plateau. This year it’s the host for the Wayne Gretzky Classic in July and the Wayner is always right. www.georgianbayclub.com
Tel: 519.599.9949
2. Blue Mountain Golf & Country Club
The longest established club in the area is also the local’s secret friendly play and our #2 ranked course. An excellent walking course the natural beauty of the Niagara Escarpment acts as a great backdrop to the course’s well maintained tees, mature fairways, greens and and friendly crowd. Blue Mountain is an 18 hole par 70 golf course that measures 6097 yards. http://www.bmgcc.net/ Tel: 705-445-3911
3. Batteaux Creek Golf Club
Nestled between the Escarpment, Collingwood and Wasaga Beach, this is one of the most scenic and playable courses in the area. For the talented, there’s plenty of risk/reward scenarios with lots of water, sand but spacious greens. For the lesser-skilled, five sets of tees on every hole allows the low handicap player to bring certain hazards into play to present more of a challenge. http://www.batteauxcreek.com Tel: (866) 479-3754
4. OslerBrook Golf & Country Club
One of the newest kids on the block, OslerBrook was started by a group of local players which included a group from neighbouring Osler Bluff Ski Club. Designed by Graham Cooke, the course butts right up against the 800 foot Escarpment providing spectacular views of the entire area. From there is follows the rolls put there by the same glaciar that gave us the escarpment. Challenging but with easy outs, it’s becoming the serious golfer’s favourite but with six tee boxes, your grandmother can play it too. You might need to know someone to get on. http://www.oslerbrook.com Tel: 800.616.4623
5. Monterra Golf at Blue Mountain Resort
Only an iron shot from most of our chalets, Monterra is part of Blue Mountains Resort. It’s a traditional links course with rolling fairways, 86 bunkers and plenty of water in the form of creeks and lakes. In addition to the championship course, Monterra offers the amenities of the nearby Blue Mountain village with its bars and restaurants. http://www.bluemountain.ca/golf.htm Tel: (877) 445-0231
6. Atoka at Cranberry
Another resort course, the Atoka Golf Club is part of Cranberry Resort near the beautiful waters of Georgian Bay. It has wide welcoming tree-lined fairways, strategically placed bunkers and wonderfully maintained greens. It also has a great spa adjacent to the course if you want to distract your significant other. It also has the distinction of being appointed Canada’s first Audubon Society certified golf course so if you like playing a ‘natural’ course that was designed to have less impact on the environment, then this is the one for you. http://www.thecranberryresort.com/golf.php Tel: (800) 465-9077
7. Cobble Beach
Surprising that Cobble Beach was the course to receive the fewest votes in our survey as when it opened it was named Best New Course in Ontario. It’s got a wonderful location beside Georgian Bay. Each nine winds its way through open meadow edged with mature woodlands, rising to provide commanding views of the course and Georgian Bay beyond and then returning to the shore for a memorable finish along the bluffs. The links-like character is revealed in the run of the turf, the billowing fescue rough, the pot bunkers that lurk to catch the errant shot, the surrounding contours of the greens and the off -water breezes. It’s the sort of course you can play and have a lot of fun as the views are extraordinary even if your golf isn’t. http://www.cobblebeach.com/ Tel: 888.278.8112
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We’ll keep the poll open and revise this listing if we see big swings.
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