Although it’s a 40 minute drive into the city, Tsawwassen has its fair share of options for residents who love to golf. If you’re looking for exclusive, members-only clubs, or public courses, Tsawwassen and the surrounding area has your golfing needs covered completely.
Tsawwassen Springs Golf & Country Club
This is Tsawwassen’s only public golf course and as it stands right now, you can’t golf on it. That’s because after years of being shunned as a less than perfect par 65, 4276 yard course built in 1966, it is getting a facelift. Granted, the Tsawwassen Golf & Country Club was a great place to bone up on your skills and the very place that I learned to golf, but I assure you, the full par 72 course that is being planned will make you completely forget about the nostalgia of the old one.
Ron Toigo, of Shato Holdings Ltd., has spearheaded the development of the course along with a proposal to build a number of condos on the course to create a real community at the bottom of the 52nd street hill. I, for one, am really looking forward to having this course in my backyard. Hopefully it will be a place I can bring friends to impress them with what our little town has in the way of leisure activities.
Beach Grove Golf & Country Club
The Beach Grove Golf & Country Club is Tsawwassen’s private club, and you can tell once you’ve played it. The course is very well kept. The grass is cut regularly, the flora is always alive and beautiful, drainage is good, and the course is challenging but still fun. If you play from the back tees, the course is a healthy 6208 yards and a par 73. The real advantage of the Golf & Country Club is the club itself. Spending time at the club after a round is something you’ll really want to do, even though you’ll need to to make up for the food and drink allowance each month. It is a fantastic place to play a round and has some really interesting and friendly members.
Point Roberts Golf & Country Club
Although not in Tsawwassen, the Point Roberts Golf & Country Club is a great and very close alternative to leaving Tsawwassen to golf. If you’re up early, you won’t have to worry about border lineups at all. If you’re not, spend the time and get the nexus pass to avoid the waits. Point Roberts is a great course to play regularly, even if it is anything but regular. It is a relatively new course that opened in 2001. If you’re playing from the long tees, you’ll walk 6,868 yards and should take no more than 72 strokes.
Point Roberts itself offers a stark contrast to Tsawwassen; the golf course is no different. An escape to the Point Roberts course feels like you’ve traveled for hours into the wilderness to play an exclusive course, even though it’s only a stone’s throw from home. The setting is serene. It is made up of somewhat shy wildlife and almost entirely indigenous plant species’. This is a true north west course in every sense of the word.
Kings Links Golf Course
Kings Links is a links course but instead of having to travel to Scotland, it looks out to the Pacific Ocean. In true links fashion, the course has a number of water and sand hazards to watch out for, but lacks a lot of the trees you’ll see in a lot of other Pacific North Western style courses. It is a par 72 course with views of the incredible surrounding Coastal Mountains and it really has panache. It is a 6,865 yard championship course built in the style of the coastal links courses found on the British Isles.
The facilities at the joint aren’t too bad either. Spending time on the clubhouse’s patio after a round watching the sun set with a beer in your hand is a fantastic way to end a day of golfing. If you go once, you will definitely go back.
Cove Links Golf Course
Cove Links is a great place to get in a quick round and might be the most fun of all these courses. It is a nine-hole 1,809 yard, par 29 making it a far cry from a full course. Sometimes, however, you don’t want to play a full course. Even burning through this little links course twice will feel awesome, trying to learn from your mistakes you made the first time around. Not unlike Kings Links, it has a fair bit of water and sand to give you a rough time, but it is overall, a very pleasant course to play.
The bar has some pretty alright food and I never really mind staying for dinner. Obviously, you can’t expect Michelin star food from a nine hole course in Ladner, but it is some very good pub style food for reasonable prices. I get a round in here whenever I feel like relaxing with some friends on warm summer evenings.
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