Location: Golf Course Drive, Banff, Alberta. Designer: Stanley Thompson designed the original 18 holes, now named the Stanley Thompson 18, in 1928. Bill Robinson designed the accompanying Tunnel 9 ...

This unusual local rule is a good indication that you’re playing golf somewhere special — when you visit the Stanley Thompson 18 at the Fairmont Banff Springs Golf Course, in Banff, Alberta.

A three-hour drive to the northwest of Banff is the Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course, another Stanley Thompson gem. Though challenged, Thompson's accomplishment at the Banff Springs has never been ...

Known as “The Castle in the Rockies,” Fairmont Banff Springs opened its golf course in 1911 (initially 9 holes), was expanded to 18 by Donald Ross, and perfected by Stanley Thompson in 1928.

A top-20 golf course ... Jasper Park Lodge was Stanley Thompson ... believed Jasper was “unspeakably beautiful,” but when Canadian Pacific came calling for more of the same at Banff, Thompson ...

It was 1926 and the war was on. Working for Canadian National Railway, Stanley Thompson had just completed his masterpiece golf course in Jasper. Three hundred kilometres to the south, Banff and ...

“Stanley Thompson came out and he designed Jasper first and Banff said, ‘Wait a second, we’re the best — we need you to come over here Mr. Thompson and make our course better than Jasper ...

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Stanley Thompson is a Canadian golf institution. That is a universally shared opinion. The renowned course designer is to golf in this country what Harry Colt is to the British Isles and what Donald ...

All classic masterpieces, how do you choose between them? Yet, that is exactly what the Fairmont Banff Springs and the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge golf courses are asking you to do. Bringing back ...