Western Canadian Golf Tour

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I have spent 2 weeks in Canada touring around Whistler, Banff, Kelowna and Victoria with some of my golf friends. We have played some rounds of golf in different courses and I post some photos here....

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My first stop is Whistler. The first course I played was the Nacklaus North. This is the course designed by Jack Nacklaus, of course. By saying that the course is designed by Jack Nacklaus, it may mean that the course is designed by Jack Nacklaus's company, not Jack Nacklaus. This course is designed by Jack Nacklaus himself, so it is quite famouse here.....

One of the lovely thing in most Canadian golf course is that their practice range is of real grass.

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This course is beautiful, especially the backdrop of the golf course is the famous mountains, either the Whistler mountain or Blackcomb mountain. There are still snow on the mountain.

The course is quite challenging, though not too difficult. We were playing blue tee at 6413 yards.

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More photos.....Their tee mark uses a bear for 2 meanings....Canada, especially BC, is a so-called bear country, as there are a lot of bear here. Even the marshal on the course gave you warning at the first tee as to how to repsond when you see a bear. 

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Next stop.....The Fairmont Chateau Whistler Golf Club.....This is the most beautiful golf I have ever played....It is a mountain course.....and very challenging....Below is the practice range...Nice one, right?

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Now see this....a nice hole, right?

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The above picture is ....still the PRACTICE RANGE......

The first few holes are all uphill holes....with a steep slope up and down.....

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More photos.......One of my golf friends told me that this course is much beautiful than the Spring City in Kuming.

The second photo showed the club house at the back of this hole no. 18.

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After playing that beautiful course, we headed to Kelowna for wineries visits and played a round there at The Okanagan Golf Club - The Quail course. This is a nice course but, having compared with the previous one, this one is just so so....

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After Kelowna, our next station is Banff.....Fairmont Banff Spring Course is a famous one. Its signature hole no. 4 was once rated as the most beautiful golf hole in the world by Golf Digest. This course is more leisure type in style and my friend shot his best round ever....86.