Glen Abbey GC
A view from the left side of a fairway at Glen Abbey Golf Club.
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4.2
894 Reviews (894)
5 Stars
447
4 Stars
258
3 Stars
113
2 Stars
46
1 Stars
30
Conditions
4.2
Value
3.9
Layout
4.6
Friendliness
4.5
Pace
3.8
Amenities
4.0
87.3%
Recommend this course
752 out of 894 reviews
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4.8
5 Reviews (5)
5 Stars
4
4 Stars
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3 Stars
0
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0
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.8
Value
5.0
Layout
4.8
Pace
5.0
Amenities
4.6
StaffFriendliness
5.0
100.0%
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5 out of 5 reviews
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4.1
45 Reviews (45)
5 Stars
24
4 Stars
10
3 Stars
6
2 Stars
2
1 Stars
3
Conditions
4.1
Value
3.8
Layout
4.6
Pace
3.6
Amenities
4.0
StaffFriendliness
4.5
88.9%
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40 out of 45 reviews
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Course Highlights
Glen Abbey's iconic course layout and well-maintained conditions consistently impress golfers seeking a historic Canadian Open venue. The notably friendly and welcoming staff elevate the overall experience for visiting players.

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Holes 18
Type Semi-Private
Par 73
Length 7273 yards
Slope 132
Rating 74.7
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Course Details

Year Built 1976
Golf Season May 1 to Nov 1

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fee
GPS No
Caddies No
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed No
Dress code Proper golf attire.

Food & Beverage

Restaurant

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Meeting Facilities, Banquet Facilities
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Reviews

4.2
894 Reviews (894)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 7
Course Challenges Include:
Undulating Greens 10
Bunkers 8
Thick Rough 8
This course/club is great for:
Advanced Golfers 8
A Bucket list/Top 100 Pick 7
Entertaining Clients 7
This Course's Location is:
Convenient to the City 11
Worth the Drive 6

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Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Always a fun round

Great course. Felt like nobody was around with the way everything was set up with social distancing. The cups need some improvements. A lot of times your ball should’ve been in the hole but you can’t take the pin out and the pin is raised too much so the balls rolls out of the cup.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 63
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Top 1000 Contributor
Ontario Advisor
Previously Played

Covid golf

Course was well orgainsed for the new norm. Good communication. Course was in nice condition, other than some bunkers had not been maintained. Group ahead was slow, no marshalls but overall a good experience for the first time out this year. Bring patience to the courses this year. If youre in a rush stay home.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Glen Abbey Rocks

I couldn't have been more thrilled to spend my first day outside, after the Covid shut-in, surrounded by the outstanding team at Glen Abbey, even with a short-handed staff, they were determined to carve out time to connect and ask how my winter had been, they greeted me by name and ensured I felt welcome, while still following stringent directives regarding the new life "SOP's". As always, the course has a beautiful layout, the early season greens will be back in action soon, and overall, the course was in moderate to good early spring shape. As expected the round was a little slower than normal at 4:34 min. but WHO CARES!!!! I was outside in the SUN!!! It was amazing. Brian, Amy, Drew - I am sooo sorry i don't know more names.....but all of them, every one of them was amazing and kind and welcoming.

Thank you Glen Abbey - with so much sincerity.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
Incentivized Review
4.0
Perfect weather
Used cart

Bucket LIst Course

Had the opportunity to play this course at a reduced price and was not disappointed...Course conditions were excellent even though it was the end of the season. The layout was challenging but fair (played the seniors tees). Staff were very friendly. All in all a great outing.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Favorite course

Awesome layout and course ! This course should be the permanent homeboy of the Canadian open such am exciting finishing stretch

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Cold weather
Used cart

Abby, Revenue Stream

It's a very lovely place and the staff are good. The Club Link model is about revenue so you have to understand they will take anyones money as long as you show up and pay.

I played yesterday with a good friend from Scotland. He gets so frustrated with the pace of play on public courses, in Canada. I agree, the Abby pace is sooo slow evertime I play it. As the home of Candian Golf, it needs to step it up and get people moving.

Get golfers to the correct tee boxes, this needs to be detemined at check in. 95 percent of the golfers I saw yesterday could handle the gold tees. Too far and punishing for their skill level. Next state the time you want people to people to play get a round.in. Finally get a real marshal out on the course who uderstands speed of play. Players need to play the entire course a lateral hazards,

We waited on the tenth hole for over 25 minutes. I was waiting on every shot, either on the tee or from the fairway.

They let out three twosomes in front of us, we asked the twosomes to join each other and speed it up. They looked at us with blank empty looks.

We played in 4.45, which they feel is exceptable. The game can and should be played in 3.30 in my opinion.

In closing the Abby needs to take some pride in the game and the speed of play,

Lovely place to visit, Clublink in my opinion cares about revenue first and player experience is way down the list. Having said all of this we paid $59.00 for a course that charges $225.00 during the summer.

Maybe I am asking too much considering the price?

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Home of the 5 1/2 hr round

Really need to improve on pace of play. Every time I play it's over 5 hours.

Course was in good shape though.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
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Commented on 10/30/2019

Hi Bikerboi6969. Thanks for taking the time to review your recent round.

Unfortunately at this time of the year it is frequent to see a frost delay pushing you beyond the time par from your original time - we do apologize for that. We will pass along your comment to our Marshalling team to determine how to continue in enhancing our time par for the best customer experience.

We hope to see you back again for a round in 2020!

Played On
Reviews 3
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
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Commented on 10/30/2019

Thanks for the positive review.

We hope to see you back at the club again in 2020.

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 10/30/2019

Hi mlau50. Thanks for the 5 star review!

We hope to see you back again soon.

Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Thank you

Thank you so much for your hospitality the course was great and the food and drinks were a very reasonable cost for the type of course it is

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 10/17/2019

Thanks for the 5 star review! We are glad to hear you enjoyed your experience on both the course and clubhouse.

We hope to see you back again soon.

Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Expected More

Maybe we just came on a bad day (a tournament was concluding as we arrived), because we didn’t have the golf experience we hoped for when we booked. The course was run down with lots of on course maintenance occurring. The pro shop staff was stretched thin and it took quite a bit of time just to check in. Getting basic information (where’s the range, directions to 1st tee) required us tracking someone down to ask rather than being provided an overview at check-in. The course layout was fun and the weather was good, so that helped counter-balance the deficits. Overall, an average golf experience.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 2
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 10/30/2019

Thanks for the 5 star review!

We are glad you enjoyed your round, and hope to see you back again soon.

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
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Commented on 10/07/2019

Hi Kashif6652870. Thanks for the 5 star review.

We hope to see you back again soon!

Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Awesome

My favorite Ontario course .... great variety of holes ... front Nine different then back nine .... amazing holes in the valley I hope they don’t develop it and host more Canadian opens ! Only know if the pace late in the afternoon everyone wants to take pictures but not a bad problem to have !! Cheers

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 10/07/2019

Thanks for the 5 star review. We are glad to hear of your great comments.

We hope to see you back again soon.

Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
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Commented on 10/07/2019

Hi Golfbumpar72. Thanks for the 5 star review.

We hope to see you back for a repeat visit, soon.

Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 10/07/2019

Hi Patman3333. Thanks for the 5 star review.

We hope to see you back for another visit soon.

Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

There is no way you should go her

I had the misfortune of paying a lot of money ($160) for an extremely slow round (2:45 for 9 holes) with poor playing conditions (all of the greens were aerated). My sense is that this place is a cash cow for the company that runs it. In fact the assistant in the pro shop said to someone on the phone that there is a corporate event their everyday. (I found this out while I was returning a shirt that I bought because I was disgusted with the place.) Crazy story - one of the "player assistance employees asked my group to "make sure that we kept pace of play" - while we were the third group waiting mid way through the first nine on a tee box. Talk about gaul!

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Moderate
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Commented on 10/07/2019

Hi Jimmcconeghy. Thanks for taking the time to review your recent round with us.

Although we are disappointed to hear of your comments, we would like the opportunity to discuss offline, we are available at playersclub@clublink.ca.

Glen Abbey is an active corporate event course, with many dates pre-booked, especially in June and September - although that wouldn't impact your visit on a non-event day.

We hope to hear from you for a future round opportunity.

Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played

This is a PGA tournament course???

Got a great price to play a PGA tour stop.

Staff was good. Marshall said it would be slow and it did take 5 hours to play.

14th green was not even cut and 16th was not complete cut.

There is no way you can charge people over $100 for a round. Carts don't even come with GPS.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
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Commented on 10/08/2019

Thanks for taking the time to review your recent round.

We are disappointed to hear of your experience not meeting expectations. We hope to speak with you to further discuss.

Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 10/07/2019

Thanks for the 5 star review!

We hope to see you back again soon.

Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 10/07/2019

Hi Dra15. Thanks for the 5 star review!

We are so glad to hear of your positive round, and hope to see you back again soon.

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