Glen Abbey Golf Club - Canada

Glen Abbey Golf Club, located in Oakville,35 minutes west of Toronto, is Ontario's premier public course and was commissioned by the Royal Canadian Golf Association to serve as the host course of the Canadian Open. Opened in 1976, Glen Abbey was the first solo design of Jack Nicklaus, assisted by Jay Morrish and Bob Cupp. Nicklaus describes the layout as a "spoke-and-wheel" design around the clubhouse, conceived to allow optimal viewing of Canada's national championship. The front nine is wider than the back, which features a particularly demanding stretch of five holes that run through the valley, beginning on the 11th Tiger Woods played one of the most spectacular shots of his career to win the 2000 Canadian Open at Glen Abbey, a six-iron second shot from 218 yards from the right fairway bunker over the lake guarding the par-five 18th hole. The Canadian Golf Hall of Fame is located in the Leonard E. Shore building attached to the clubhouse.

St. George's Golf and Country Club - Canada

St. George's Golf and Country Club, tucked away in a residential neighborhood of Toronto, is rated the top golf course in Canada by the Canadian magazine Score Golf and is the second-highest ranking Canadian course on Golf Magazine's Top 100 in the World, behind Highland Links. The course was conceived by Robert Home Smith, a builder and developer who began acquiring the land near the Humber River in 1909. Smith persuaded his friend Sir Edward Beatty, the head of the Canadian Pacific Railway, to support the project, and leading architect Stanley Thompson was hired to design the course. Known as "the Toronto Terror," Thompson was coming off his brilliant successes at Banff Springs and Jasper Park Lodge in Alberta. Completed in 1929, the course was associated with the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, which was owned by the Canadian Pacific. Indeed, the course was originally called the Royal York Golf Club until the name was changed in 1946 when the arrangement with the railway ended. At St. George's, Thompson made the most of the nicely undulating terrain with valleys, ridges, and a stream that defends the 14th green. The club is also notable for its Tudor clubhouse on Islington Avenue, with its wood shake roof and large steeple, reflecting Home Smith's personal philosophy and the motto of his company: ''A little bit of England far from England."