Archive for November 25th, 2007
Canada’s Greatest Golf Courses: ROYAL MONTREAL

The North American Golf Course, Royal Montreal Golf Club is the region’s oldest golf course and club. This golf club was established in the year 1873 and was initially called only Montreal Golf Club; Queen Victoria awarded the prefix Royal to the club in 1884. In its beginning, the club had a nine-hole golf course, which was in Mount Royal Park; the club is currently in Île-Bizard, Quebec where it moved in 1959. There is the 45 hole golf course at the Royal Montreal Golf Club which today is the biggest in Canada. The Blue golf course of the club enjoys a reputation of being in the top 100 golf courses by the premier golf magazines. Scoregolf in 2006 ranked the course as the 12th golf course in Canada. The Royal Montreal Golf Club’s golf courses add to the reputation of the club and attract many premier golf tournaments.

The golf courses of the Royal Montreal Golf Club are mainly private and are known for their immaculate services and its perfect maintenance of all the greens. The Blue Course of the club will be hosting the Presidents Cup which was originally created by Dick Wilson but then Rees Jones gave it a new face in 2004. No. 16 is the signature hole of this golf course; the course stretches at 444 yards and is par 4 golf course. The best golf players of the world will find the course a challenge when they will have to play off the tee of the course. The course of the club has also hosted some of the important golf events of Canada.