This week was a visit to the famous Banff Springs Golf Course in Banff, Alberta, Canada and to be more specific, the 4th hole. A par 3 with an incredible view off the tee towards the east side of Mount Rundle, it’s just one of many spectacular holes at one of the more pricey golf courses in Canada. Opened in 1911 as a nine-hole course laid out by Bill Thomson, a Scottish expatriate who apprenticed under Old Tom Morris at St. Andrews, the Banff Springs Golf Course was expanded to an 18-hole course by Donald Ross in 1924. But it was Stanley Thompson, Canada’s most significant and successful golf architect, who created the layout as it plays today. The course demonstrates his appreciation of traditional links golf courses while emphasizing the subtleties of the mountain landscape. Money was no barrier for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and when unveiled in 1928, the Banff Springs Golf Course was the most expensive ever built.
Found before the hint:
- Phil Ower
- Martin de Bock
- Paul Voestermans
- Garfield
- Eloy Cano
- hhgygy
- Lighthouse
- zorro the fox
- Graham Hedley