If you want to play the best golf course in the area, resist the temptation to follow the crowd into the Mont Tremblant village and instead head for the nearby Gray Rocks resort.
Three golf courses in Mont-Tremblant rank among the top 100 in Canada by ScoreGolf: Le Maitre (no. 37), Le Geant (no. 45) and Le Diable (no. 71). This renowned ski village might be even more fun in summer than winter, according to golfers anyway. Jason Scott Deegan shows us why.
The logistics of chasing down several great courses in one trip remains a pipe dream. But you can play them all -- and many more -- in a single round at Golf Manitou, a fun replica course in Mont-Tremblant, a mountain golf getaway 75 miles northwest of Montreal. It's a great place for couples, families and beginners or as a way to sharpen up your short game.
Elijah Jones and Stan Brigham teamed up to create one of the better golf courses in Quebec, the Club de Golf Heritage. The 6,768-yard course, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in the summer of 2013, was built without blasting any rock. The result is a marriage of land and links with some memorable golf holes featuring wild elevation changes and beautiful vistas, Jason Scott Deegan writes.
Without a membership, there's only one way to access Le Maitre, a private club run by ClubLink in the Laurentian Mountains roughly 75 miles northwest of Montreal. A stay-and-play with a resort hotel such as the Fairmont Tremblant opens doors to Le Maitre, which means "the master" in French. In 2012, ScoreGolf ranked the 7,025-yard course no. 37 among the top 100 courses in Canada.
They don't call Gray Rocks resort's La Bete Course "the beast" for nothing. The 6,825-yard Graham Cooke design, located in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, strikes fear into players with its mountainous challenges. La Bete, which opened in 2001, gives Gray Rocks Golf a 1-2 punch (along with La Belle "the beauty") in this premier vacation destination approximately 75 miles northwest of Montreal.
Thrilling mountain golf makes Mont-Tremblant, Quebec -- a vaunted ski destination in the Laurentian Mountains roughly 75 miles northwest of Montreal -- one of Canada's premier summer getaways, too. The signature experience comes at Le Maitre, a private club accessible by staying at high-end hotels such as the Fairmont Tremblant. Other highlights include Gray Rocks' La Belle and La Bete Courses, Intrawest's Le Geant and Le Diable Courses, and Golf Manitou.
No golf course in the Laurentian Mountains brings out more polarizing opinions than Le Diable at Mont Tremblant Resort. Some consider Le Diable -- which translates to "the devil" in English -- the best public course in the region 75 miles northwest of Montreal, while others believe too many penal bunkers and waste areas too often ruin the opportunity for a decent score. Here's a closer look at Le Diable. You decide.
Thomas McBroom's Le Geant golf course at Mont Tremblant Resort, which opened in 1995, spearheaded the golf boom in the Laurentian Mountains roughly 75 miles northwest of Montreal. But it's still among the best, ranking 45th among ScoreGolf's top 100 golf courses in Canada for 2012.
The Club de Golf Heritage course in Quebec, celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2013, plays almost as good as the more celebrated Fairmont Le Chateau Montebello Golf Club. This under-the-radar resort has blossomed into a place worth discovering in the foothills of the Laurentian Mountains roughly 100 kilometers northwest of Ottawa.
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