Alberta golf course lands a spot on the world's 100 greatest ranking
Banff is no stranger to landing on plenty of rankings involving its beauty, and now a golf course in the national park has been named one of the greatest in the world.
Golf Digest has rounded up the 100 best golf courses, and the Banff Springs Golf Course landed at #60.
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Golf Digest points heavily to the course’s surrounding beauty, calling out the “near-vertical cliffs of Mount Rundle towering 3,000 feet over almost every fairway,” adding that the course, designed by Canadian Stanley Thompson, is tucked into the narrow Y-shaped valley formed by the Bow and Spray Rivers.
“Bunkering at Banff may be the best of Thompson’s career. There are 150 of them, often in circular clusters, with ebbs and flows in their shapes that mirror mountain peaks,” the magazine added.
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Another Alberta spot to make the cut regarding a golf course being considered the greatest in the world was the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge Golf Club. The list was published before the devastating wildfires that tore through the national park, including the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge.
You can check out the full list of the greatest golf courses in the world here.