Lionhead Golf and Country Club - Legends
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The Legends Course at Lionhead Golf & Country Club has been ranked before as one of the toughest golf courses in North America and the club boasts that it is the toughest in Canada. Lionhead Golf & Country Club also offers another, less demanding 18-hole course that is equally entertaining, the Masters. Legends features numerous challenges including vast lakes, cavernous sand bunkers, and tall fescue. The layout winds through a rugged portion of the Credit River Valley with steeply rolling terrain and wooded ravines, providing the golf course with elevated, undulating greens. The eighth is a notable hole, both for its beautiful scenery and its difficulty level. It is a long par 3 over a pond filled with tall bulrushes.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 72 | 7402 yards | 77.5 | 155 |
| Gold | 72 | 6845 yards | 75.3 | 152 |
| Blue | 72 | 6409 yards | 73.6 | 150 |
| White | 72 | 5473 yards | 72.1 | 142 |
| Red | 72 | 5380 yards | 68.2 | 122 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold M: 74.7/150 | 441 | 397 | 177 | 535 | 416 | 385 | 557 | 190 | 415 | 3513 | 378 | 428 | 542 | 141 | 412 | 481 | 431 | 165 | 443 | 3421 | 6934 |
| Blue M: 72.5/148 W: 79.0/153 | 428 | 377 | 161 | 515 | 386 | 355 | 533 | 167 | 406 | 3328 | 350 | 418 | 528 | 120 | 403 | 465 | 411 | 153 | 410 | 3258 | 6586 |
| White M: 68.2/136 W: 76.9/150 | 380 | 358 | 145 | 500 | 362 | 340 | 503 | 154 | 386 | 3128 | 329 | 400 | 514 | 110 | 393 | 445 | 392 | 142 | 400 | 3125 | 6253 |
| Red M: 67.6/121 W: 72.7/129 | 332 | 315 | 125 | 452 | 308 | 290 | 475 | 126 | 276 | 2699 | 275 | 348 | 460 | 105 | 289 | 415 | 352 | 100 | 365 | 2709 | 5408 |
| Green W: 60.1/100 | 300 | 252 | 105 | 375 | 250 | 251 | 400 | 105 | 227 | 2265 | 210 | 310 | 415 | 105 | 275 | 340 | 290 | 100 | 330 | 2375 | 4640 |
| Handicap | 2 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 3 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
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Good Conditions
Greens rolled true, fairways were decent. Very nice course!
great set up and picturesque views
great value today being customer appreciation day. course was in great shape but the greens had many divots from people before not fixing them. If they had offers like this one today I would make the trip from St Catharines more often. I also made my first eagle on hole 15. With all the courses in the Niagara area , I would love to have a reason to golf Llionhead more often.
Challenging yet Enjoyable...
While I'm not sure it's amongst the toughest tests (I played from the Blue Tees), it's a challenging layout with quite a few holes that are pleasing to the eye. Given that I've played it for the first time, I would rank this higher in enjoyability and challenge than the Masters Course at Lionhead. With the right kind of deal, I will definitely play this course again.
Great course and conditions...
Only wish we could have stayed all day and played another 18. Course was in great shape, and being first on the greens following the grounds crew, they rolled immaculately and were pock-mark free. Very nice compared to your typical municipal course. Not quite sure how Kaneff affords the amount of grounds staff they have, I guess that is why regular green fees are >$100. For the golfnow rate, the course far exceeded expectations. It is difficult, but not unnecessarily penal.
Great experience
Very positive experience on all levels except my scores. Very enjoyable morning plus nice lunch upstairs in the clubhouse.
A must play
From the moment you arrive in the parking lot you are greeted with friendly staff who help get you and your clubs to the clubhouse. As you stand over your ball setting up your first approach to green you'll know you're for a challenge. Legends is a tough course that makes you feel like you're really playing golf. When you shoot a good round it really feels good to conquer this course, but it will punish you on a bad day..
Challenging course providing a tough test with some excellent holes
Enjoyed playing the "Legends" for the first time having previuosly played only the "Masters" course. This course is much longer with some very difficult tee shots and approached to the greens.
Condition of the course was excellent and we enjoyed the experience very much.
THIS COURSE IS PRISTINE I WOULD RECOMMEND LION HEAD TO EVERYONE
THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST COURSE'S I'VE EVER PLAYED
Fantastic golf course
Thought the layout, course conditions and greens were absolutely perfect. This track is challenging and fun and I believe is among the best in Ontario.
Not for the average golfer. If you normally shot 90 you'll be 100 here.
There are too many blind holes, and they don't give you enough help getting around, with no GPS provided. It's a very pretty course but not a very friendly course to play if you're there for the first time. I think you could shave 5 or so shots off your round if you were going to go back 3 or 4 times.
The greens were quite fast.
It was cart path only when I played which made for a lot of back and forth to the cart which I'm sure contributed to the rather slow play.
Being a very low lying course I suspect "cart path only" is a quite common restriction. At times you wonder why you bothered to take a cart as it always seems to be so far away.
Great course with minor issues
The Legends course is very challenging as expected and except for the extreme wetness where some fairways are even under water (rained a couple of days before and started 6:30am due to other commitments ) the course is just as nice as before. The previous few times I played there was also early morning and I wish I can play there when it is not too wet and later in the day. Because of high rates I can only play when I see rates drop thru Golfnow. Some bunkers were not even raked and been washed out by rain. Fortunately my ball did not go there.
Great Day for golfing
Great day but course was very wet. Only problem. I had was it took way to long to complete. Always had to wait 10 minutes to tee off.
Excellent Layout and great conditions!
Excellent Layout and great conditions! - Definitely adding this course to our rotation.
Very Small Greens
The Course is very tough, the green sizes are so small you have to be extremely precise with your distances.
word of advice Assume red stakes on any wooded area, the club should do this to speed up play, people either spend too much time looking for balls or they keep coming back to drop and play for a lost ball.
Red Stakes please all over the course.
great front 9
front 9 I found was easy to see where to play to off the tee, the back 9 had hidden hazards that without prior knowledge led to some poor results even with good shots due to lack of course knowledge.
Good course good value.
Good course and value apart from one stupid hole (15) and the tiny creek they put in the fairway of the 7th hole. If you hit your career drive on this par 5 you roll into a water hazard they put just at the point you need to reach to have a chance at the green in two. Not smart and makes you wonder who designed this, maybe the same person who designed 15 which is another par 5 requiring a 99% accurate tee shot to have any chance at reaching it in two - gimmicky not challenging as you're really lucky if you hit the right spot to have a go.
Wonderful course great value green fee and cart $89.00
For such a great ciurse found staff not that friendly or helpful also pace of play would be helpef if there was a stsrter at hole 1 and gps on carts. Otherwise had a great time
I forgot how slow it was
Kaneff courses spread tee off times by the minimum time that is humanly possible and Lionhead is no different. Once again I experienced one of the slowest rounds of my life. At one point we even had to call the Marshall out to speed up some groups (not sure why he wasn't already out doing his job).
Despite all this we also got asked by one of the greens crew to pause our game for 5 minutes as he sprayed insecticide on the fairway. Another first - thanks Kaneff.
Fantastic Customer Service
Course was in great shape, is very challenging and is worth every cent but the biggest impression was the customer service, When booking on-line I accidentally booked the tee time for the the wrong date, upon arriving with a customer and checking in, they did not have a tee time for me as my tee time was for an early date. Without any questions they picked up on my embarrassment, pretended it was their mistake and very quietly they found a tee time allowing me to save face in front of my customer. They did not charge me for the round that I booked on the wrong date that had also gone by.
Tough track
A few gimmicky par 5's but overall great course that will challenge every club in the bag