Links At Crowbush Cove - Canada

The Links at Crowbush Cove is the premier course on Prince Edward Island, Canada's small Maritime Province that is earning a reputation as a big-time golf destination. Altogether, there are 26 courses on the island. PEl is also the home of LPGA Tour player Lori Kane. Designed by Thomas McBroom and opened in 1994, Crowbush Cove is set in the coastal dunes on the north central shore of the saddle-shaped island. There are nine water holes and eight holes that wind through the dunes and wetlands along the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Another fine layout on Prince Edward Island is the Green Gables Golf Course, located in the PEl National Park, designed by Stanley Thompson and built in 1939. Just to the left of the 11th fairway is Green Gables, the home of Anne Shirley in Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic novel set on Prince Edward Island.

Highlands Links - Canada

Highlands Links is a natural wonderland situated in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park on the northern extreme of Nova Scotia's 4,000-square-mile Cape Breton Island. The course was built by the National Park Service of Canada in 1939 as a public works project with the goal of stimulating tourism. Stanley Thompson the great Canadian architect, who had triumphed over difficult terrain at Banff Springs and Jasper Park in Alberta, was brought in to design the course. Thompson wove the holes through a variety of spellbinding scenery, all the while maintaining the broad, rolling character of the course. Carved through virgin forests of fir, spruce, and birch, the massive swales on several of the fairways were created by piling up rocks and boulders and covering them with soil from river silt. The course overlooks Ingonish Bay and the Atlantic with Whale Island across the channel, while holes such as the 10th and 14th that run inland face the green cloak of Mount Franey. The Clyburn River runs through the middle holes, accompanying the golfer on the 480-yard stroll from the 12th green to the 13th tee. Some of the most notable holes, each of which has a Gaelic name, are the back-to-back par fives Mucklemouth Meg and Killiecrankie. The white clap­board Keltic Lodge, famed for its lobster dinners, was built at the same time as the Highlands Links to provide visiting golfers with first-rate accommodations.