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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.
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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.
Late season
For late in the season, value and course condition was great. Greens were in fantastic shape, which I'll admit I was shocked due to end of season. No beer cart on the course, but that isn't a big deal. Very happy with the staff and everything.
Course was in great shape
Was expecting lots of leaves on the fairways, they were clean and in good shape Greens were fast early in the day. Was a beautiful fall day, almost 20deg C
Great course and greens are very challenging
The course was awesome but the play was very due to the JR tournament.Not the fault of the course as everyone was very friendly.
An excellent venue for a golf outing
We played the Escarpment Course and the Old Canal Course. The Escarpment Course was excellent but the Old Canal Course was rather difficult especially with very high wind conditions. It would be great if the course allowed customers to choose the 9’s we would like to play. We had 2 ladies who found the Canal Course way too difficult and stopped playing after the first 2 holes.
