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Royal Niagara Golf Club - Old Canal Course
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The Old Canal Course is one of three nine-hole courses at the Royal Niagara Golf & Country Club. Situated between the scenic Niagara Escarpment and the Bruce Trail, the Old Canal Course is named after the historic 120-year-old Welland Canal that borders it. The challenging layout was designed to championship standards, employing several tricky elements including carefully sculpted fairways, rolling greens, and king-size bunkers. True to its name, the golf course features plenty of water throughout. There are several dramatically placed tees perched on the edges of the canal, providing stunning scenery that is unmatched in the Niagara region. All three courses at Royal Niagara Golf & Country Club were built to the same high standards, but each one offers a unique set of challenges.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 36 | 3563 yards | ||
| Blue | 36 | 3307 yards | ||
| White | 36 | 3099 yards | ||
| Red | 36 | 2739 yards | ||
| Green | 36 | 2240 yards |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 72.5/140 | 382 | 521 | 413 | 426 | 218 | 576 | 171 | 443 | 301 | 3451 | 6984 |
| Blue M: 70.7/134 W: 77.1/142 | 363 | 505 | 385 | 400 | 177 | 538 | 148 | 415 | 280 | 3211 | 6515 |
| White M: 68.2/128 W: 74.5/137 | 340 | 482 | 356 | 374 | 154 | 519 | 127 | 390 | 270 | 3012 | 6080 |
| Red M: 65.6/112 W: 70.3/131 | 312 | 439 | 292 | 334 | 133 | 432 | 107 | 364 | 265 | 2678 | 5407 |
| Green M: 62.2/106 W: 66.2/119 | 235 | 360 | 225 | 275 | 133 | 385 | 107 | 290 | 265 | 2275 | 4450 |
| Handicap | 12 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 18 | 4 | 8 | ||
| Par | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
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Nice course
5 1/2 hour round, not much fun, course is in great conditions.
Course in good condition
Greens fast, traps some unplayable due to rain water
Needs fixing
Course was good but a lot of blind shots if you don’t know it. Greens were fast and true. No sand on the cart so tee boxes were chopped up. Carts don’t have any protection of your clubs from rain. Staff very nice.
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I don't feel they price charged was worth it. The greens have been air rated and top dressed. The putting surface was horrible.
Courses should provide maintenance alerts
I feel that i should first state, that i do enjoy this course and that the staff is always great and that I like the layout of 2 of 3 courses, which is why i chose to drive nearly 2 hours to play there and make a day out of spending some time in the region after our round.
Now for the negatives. This course has 3, 9 hole courses available. On this day, only 2 were available as one of them was shut down for maintenance. Unfortunately for me, it was my favorite 9. There were no rakes at any of the bunkers which meant that you were looking around for a decent place to hit your ball from. Lastly, the greens had been punched recently.
Now, just to be clear, I do understand and appreciate that maintenance needs to take place in order to ensure the course is in it's best condition possible for the future, however, I also feel that the customer should be made aware of these conditions and restrictions, prior to booking any round. Not so long ago, courses would post on their site that work was being done and offer you a discount for the inconvenience. If I had been made aware that this was the state of the course that day, I wouldn't have booked that round, especially for that price.
No yard poles at all.
It’s off season play now.
However, there are neither 150 yard white pole nor 100 yard red pole on the fair ways.
We tried to find the white 150 yard plate, 100 red plate on the ground, but nothing was there.
Of course NO GPS on the cart.
We play different corses in Niagara and St. Catharine , but worst fair ways in this season.
