Toronto is the New York City of Canada. This means people either love it because it is busy, exciting, and diverse, or hate it because it is chaotic, loud, and crowded. Toronto is the center of Canadian finance, theater, sports, education, art, and cuisine: take in a Broadway-caliber show, head to the top of the CN Tower, or visit one of the dozens of art and history museums.
If you go to Toronto to play golf, odds are you'll end up at Glen Abbey Golf Club anyway. But if you're on the fence, the on-site Royal Canadian Golf Association Museum pushes it over the edge, Larry Olmsted writes in his Beyond the Course column. It's on par with the museums at Valderrama, St. Andrews and Pinehurst but only costs about as much as one Titleist.
Lionhead Golf and Country Club in Brampton, Ontario isn't shy about boasting its Legends Course as Canada's most difficult course. Golfers here are strongly encouraged to play the golds or blues, both still a formidable test. Architect Ted Baker simply says he intended to design the course where "par is elusive.
There are two golf courses at Lionhead, Legends and Masters. Legends stretches to 7,198 yards and plays to a brutal slope rating of 153. The USGA's scale only goes up to 155.
Planning a drive-to golf vacation from Toronto is not easy. But there are plenty of destinations to choose from, spring through fall, within a six-hour drive.
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