Lionhead GCC - Legends
View of a green from Legends Course at Lionhead Golf and Country Club.
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4.1
515 Reviews (515)
5 Stars
193
4 Stars
201
3 Stars
56
2 Stars
46
1 Stars
19
Conditions
4.2
Value
3.7
Layout
4.2
Friendliness
4.2
Pace
4.0
Amenities
4.0
77.2%
Recommend this course
416 out of 515 reviews
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4.3
12 Reviews (12)
5 Stars
7
4 Stars
3
3 Stars
1
2 Stars
1
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.3
Value
3.8
Layout
4.7
Pace
4.3
Amenities
4.5
StaffFriendliness
4.6
83.3%
Recommend this course
10 out of 12 reviews
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4.2
28 Reviews (28)
5 Stars
14
4 Stars
9
3 Stars
1
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4
1 Stars
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Conditions
4.4
Value
3.9
Layout
4.3
Pace
4.1
Amenities
4.2
StaffFriendliness
4.3
78.6%
Recommend this course
22 out of 28 reviews
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Course Highlights
This course consistently impresses with excellent conditions, a demanding layout, and friendly staff that keep the round enjoyable. Smooth pace of play and strong value make it a rewarding challenge for golfers looking to sharpen their game.

About

Holes 18
Type Semi-Private
Par 72
Length 7402 yards
Slope 155
Rating 77.5

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.

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Course Details

Year Built 1989
Golf Season Apr 15 to Oct 31
Architect Ted Baker

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Pull-carts No
Caddies No
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes

Food & Beverage

Bar, Snacks, Restaurant, Beverage Carts

Available Facilities

Showers, Lockers

Available Sports

Tennis
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Reviews

4.1
515 Reviews (515)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 47
Patio Dining 32
Brunch 20
Course Challenges Include:
Bunkers 74
Elevation Changes 71
Forced Carries 71
This course/club is great for:
Advanced Golfers 78
Entertaining Clients 43
A Bucket list/Top 100 Pick 33
This Course's Location is:
Convenient to the City 62
Worth the Drive 42
Near the Airport 40

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Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

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.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

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.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 25
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

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.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing

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.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Excellent Layout and great conditions!

Excellent Layout and great conditions! - Definitely adding this course to our rotation.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

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.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

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.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

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.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

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

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Poor
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

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.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

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.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Tough track

A few gimmicky par 5's but overall great course that will challenge every club in the bag

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Prepare to be humbled

If you are an intermediate golfer like me, you will be humbled. Some of the fairways are very tight and hazards abound - bring some extra balls! To get a good score, leave the driver in the bag and play smart. It will be more enjoyable that way. Overall, it was challenging but very enjoyable. A bit out of my price range but I will go there again on a deal.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 20-24
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a month
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Advanced Golfers Only

Great course in Mississauga, Ontario. Very challenging course with some very hard holes. Not recommended for novice players.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 7
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Difficult course fun to play. Play early as later in the day the rounds take a lot longer to play.

Good course very challenging from the blue and gold tees. Like the entire course except the Mickey Mouse par 5 15th hole. At the discounted rates on golf now it is great value.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Rushed by other players

Even though the Marshall said that we were on time, if not ahead of time the people behind us were rushing us which did not make our round enjoyable. They hit our cart TWICE with balls which led into a verbal dispute. It put a sour taste in our mouth at the end of the round. The course was great but with people like that on the course it doesn't make it too enjoyable at times.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Complete Target Golf

There are golf courses out there that force golfers to hit to targets that I enjoy but this course was to the EXTREME. Two of the par fives give you very little area to land your drive and two others force you to lay up at 240 yards from the tee before a hazard. I'm ok with the option of laying up off of the tee ONLY if the carry required isn't 290+ yards. Beyond that, the course is extremely difficult and seems to be difficult "just cause" instead of difficult in a strategic way.

I am a 4 handicap and found the course very difficult. Anyone who is above a 10 index length will leave this course very upset and dissatisfied. I am a proponent of the tee it forward program and even when playing from the correct tee's, many will find this course VERY unfair.

Conditions Average
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 26
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Excellent conditions and course layout

We really enjoyed the course, it was in great shape and present some very picturesque holes, pace of play was a bit slow, but given the sweltering heat it was fine...excellent value will definitely play this course again

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

extremely challenging and equally enjoyable, definitely going to play again.

Well designed public course with good maintenance, a lot of fun and well worth the money. There was a slow group in front of us so the pace was rather slow, but regardless the experience was thoroughly enjoyed. Looking forward to playing again.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Slow

Started players off the front and back, making for a quick front 9 of 2 hours, but the back 9 was 3 hours!!!
Trying to make money has cost them, I won't be returning.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Difficulty Moderate
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