The Whistler Foursome

The first Canadian design by Arnold Palmer, the Whistler Golf Club is celebrating its 25th anniversary––the layout features 9 lakes, 2  winding creeks and gorgeous mountain views  At just over 2,000 feet in elevation, in the Canadian Rockies, Whistler has four stunning golf courses with views of snow-capped mountain peaks. The golfing season runs from May through the middle of October. Laid on a rugged, densely forested site on the shores of glacial Green Lake, Nicklaus North is watered by Whistler’s famous “River of Golden Dreams”, while feisty Fitzsimmons Creek creates havoc for golfers on the 18 hole, where it fronts the green along with a huge cottonwood tree. At the base of the glacier-capped Coast Mountains, Chateau Whistler Golf Club was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. on tilting terrain studded with monumental granite outcroppings. Cascading across the course are three glacier-fed streams, spawning grounds for Rainbow and Kokanee trout. A David Leadbetter Golf Academy is here, too, on a gorgeous high-mountain hillside. A Robert Cupp original at the foot of Mount Currie, Big Sky Golf and Country Club is a stunner, relatively flat with plenty of reed-bordered lakes and ponds. Stay and Play Whistler Golf packages start at $355 per person for 2 nights' accommodation and a round of golf on three courses, and $448 per person for three nights' accommodation and a round of golf at all four courses. (800) WHISTLER