JUNE 8 – 25, 2024
• 19 days / 18 nights
• 11 Championship Courses
• 3 Luxury Fairmont Hotels
• 2 Leading Golf Resorts
• Exhaustive list of inclusions in a great tour package
• 1 Award-Winning tour company taking reservations now
Chateau WhistlerThis will be our 21st golf tour to this fantastic destination. We know that it will sell out quickly, so please register promptly because the tour has a maximum limit of 28 golfers.
Our luxury package includes staying 18 nights in the 5-star Fairmont chain of hotels along with two amazing golf resorts. From Calgary we head into the Rockies, all the way through the Okanagan Valley and Whistler to finish in Vancouver.
This is your chance to play Banff Springs, Kananaskis, two
championship layouts at Predator Ridge, Chateau Whistler, Nicklaus North and Greywolf, to name but a few in our 2024 line-up. Overall, we play 11 exhilarating golf courses. A winery tour, catch-up drinks, and the Lake Louise Gondola are added inclusions.
Many thanks from the PaR nz Golfing Holidays team and your Canadian Tour Hosts, Kim Buckley and Denise Langdon kim@parnz.co.nz & denise@parnz.co.nz
Tour Overview
You’ll play some of the world’s most scenic courses when you travel with PaR nz Golfing Holidays to the Canadian Rockies. Even the amazing pictures can’t do justice to this part of the world – so join us on tour for the complete Canadian golf experience!
What’s in store? Simply some of the most thrilling golf imaginable, on magnificent courses in awesome alpine settings, designed by the sport’s big names – including Jack Nicklaus.
There’s something so special about the Fairmont Banff Springs Golf Course as it draws golfers in and compels them to return. Perhaps it is because it lies in the heart of Banff National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site with views of the historic, castle-like hotel. Perhaps it’s the fascinating layout or optical illusions created by the surrounding Rocky Mountains. Whatever
the secret, this Alberta golf course remains a tour favourite. Canada’s master golf course architect Stanley Thompson designed Banff’s original 18 holes in 1928; these wind along the Bow River below Sulphur Mountain and Mount Rundle. An adjoining nine holes, designed by Cornish and Robinson, were constructed in 1989, so there are now 27 holes of superb championship golf to enjoy.
The Predator Ridge Golf Resort , where we play and stay, is a premier golf resort community in the Okanagan Valley outside Vernon in British Columbia and home to two of the country’s finest golf courses. Canadian architect Doug Carrick renovated the original nine-hole Peregrine course and built nine new holes to expand the 27 holes to a 36-hole championship golf course.
The two original 18-holes were renamed The Predator
Course (Les Furber) and The Ridge Course (Doug Carrick), which SCOREgolf voted the best new golf course in Canada in 2010. Carrick, with direct involvement from the original Predator course architect Les Furber, went back in 2018 to lead a $3.8 million, four-hole renovation project. The Ridge Course is defined by extraordinary vistas, long, scenic fairways and beautiful granite outcrops. The Predator Course, which hosted the World Skins Game twice, has a distinctive character too, with rolling hills, long grasses and undulating greens.
Another award-winning course designed by Doug Carrick is Greywolf at Panorama Mountain Village. One of golf’s true must-plays, Greywolf’s signature hole ‘Cliffhanger’ has an island green perched above the aptly named Hopeful Canyon with cliffs below the front and back. Mountain golf can be challenging and dynamic – and this 18-hole course is an exhilarating example.
There are four great golf challenges near the famous winter ski
resort of Whistler, north of Vancouver. We’ll play three of them on our tour, including the famous Fairmont Chateau Whistler Golf Course designed by Robert Trent Jones Jnr, Nicklaus North Golf Course designed by Jack Nicklaus, and Whistler Golf Club designed by Arnold Palmer.
Carved into the slopes of the Coast Mountain range of British Columbia, with Blackcomb and Whistler mountains as a backdrop, Fairmont Chateau Whistler incorporates creeks, ponds, ancient stands of Douglas fir trees and massive granite rocks. The course elevation, which changes by more than 130 metres overall, presents an impressive golf opportunity and an exceptional experience of natural scenery and wildlife.
Nicklaus North, designed by ‘The Golden Bear’ Nicklaus, is a par 71, 18-hole course that gently winds along a valley floor. Some of golf’s biggest names have played here – Nick Faldo, Ernie Els, Greg Norman, Fred Couples, John Daly, Vijay Singh, Stephen Ames and, of course, the mighty Jack
Mayfair Lakes
Kananaskis
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2024 Canadian Rockies Golf Tour
Nicklaus himself.
The friendly and relaxed ambience of Arnold Palmer’s first Canadian design, Whistler Golf Club, contributes to its popularity. It represents an authentic Whistler brand of golf and highlights big views of snow-capped-mountains, signature designs and uncompromising course conditions.
The 2024 tour also includes golf courses which may not feature at the very top of course rankings, but have something very special to add to an authentic Canadian golf experience. You will see the work of acclaimed golf architect Bill Robinson, whose Eagle Ranch in a canyon setting makes the most of natural contours, varied terrain and 360-degree views. Its 18 holes are strategically placed along ancient bluffs overlooking the Columbia River.
The 2024 tour starts at the base of the Rockies – at Kananaskis. This is an amazing 36 hole masterpiece by Robert Trent Jones Snr that delights from the tee with every hole having a different view of some Rocky peak. This course occupies a
wildlife migration corridor, and we’ve spotted coyote and other indigenous wildlife such as elk in this river valley.
Copper Point Golf Club in the Windermere Valley is a natural, lay-of-the-land 36-hole route with numerous ‘classic’ elements such as roughly-hewn bunkers and clever use of natural hills and ravines. Close to popular tourist destinations of Invermere, Radium Hot Springs and Fairmont Hot Springs, it has two 18hole courses: The Point – recently ranked in Canada’s top 100 courses by SCOREGolf Magazine – and The Ridge.
Mayfair Lakes by contrast has a charming, flat layout designed by Les Furber. Its pretty lakes and waterways present a technical challenge on 13 of its 18 holes, and it offers year-round golf in a secluded, countryside setting beneath the beautiful North Shore Mountains at Richmond, just a short distance from downtown Vancouver.
The 11 courses included in our highly-rated Canadian Rockies Tour represent some of Canada’s finest championship fairways. Come and explore with us in 2024!
