Stewart Creek

High mountain golf courses are among the most challenging and rewarding ways to play, and Stewart Creek Golf & Country Club offers some of the best mountain courses for you to enjoy on your golf vacation in Canada.

Just half an hour from Banff, Stewart Creek in Canmore is home to one of the country’s ‘must play’ mountain layouts, designed by Calgary-based golf course architect, Gary Browning. The 18-hole course also tops the player’s choice lists of ‘Most Beautiful’, ‘Best Conditioned’, and ‘Most Fun’ every year.

This Canmore golf course is noted for its breathtaking, concentration-trying, mountain scenery incorporating views of the Three Sisters, Cascade, Pigeon, and Ha Ling Mountain ranges along the route.

The signature hole is the 9th, a 212-yard Par 3 from the tips that features an elevated tee with dramatic elevation changes to the dance floor below. Off the course, you can look forward to on-site dining and spectacular vistas of the surrounding Canadian Rockies.

Browning took over the project in the late 1990s when there was a change in ownership due to environmental issues under the initial management.

His design opened in 2000 to rave reviews and has increased in player respect since then. The Club achieved Audubon status in 2004 and it was on Golfweek’s Best Modern Canadian rankings in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

One should always take note when playing in wilderness areas that they are home to native wildlife and in the Canadian Rockies that includes bears, cougars and elk.

Stewart Creek is situated in a wildlife migration area and when redesigning the initial routing Browning had to move his design to not be in the middle of it. He tells some wonderful stories of when he was building the course encountering a bear swimming in the pond on the 10^th and 3 cougar kittens on the bridge on the 14^th – fortunately ‘momma’ cougar was not in sight.

Browning will tell you that he is equally as proud of all the environmental awards Stewart Creek has achieved as he is the accolades for his design work.