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Deerhurst Resort
This
luxurious resort which offers numerous activities is one of
the oldest resorts of the region. Indeed, it opened in 1896
and is actually classified number two by the Score magazine
in the category of the best golf resorts. Spreading out on an
approximately 323 hectare domain situated in the heart of a
magnificent environment, the resort offers a varied set of rooms
and comfortable and completely fitted out suites.

It possesses two international golf courses 18 holes. The first
one, Deerhurst Highlands, was drawn by Robert
Cupp and Thomas McBroom. Nested among hills and dense forest,
it offers to golfers all kinds of challenges.

The second, Deerhurst Lakeside, is a Par-65
drawn by Thomas McBroom. It possesses a more accommodating arrangement
and a very pleasant game accessible to any level players. Both
courses have magnificent points of view on the lake. The club
offers at disposal golf lessons and proposes the organization
of tournaments.
Green fees:
Deerhurst Highlands: from $50 to $155
Deerhurst Lakeside: from $45 to $65.
Information:
Deerhurst Resort
1235 Deerhurst Drive,
Huntsville, Ontario, Canada P1H 2E8
Phone: (705) 789-6411 - Fax: (705) 789-2431
Lake
Joseph Club
Classified
best new golf course of Canada by Golf Digest in 1997, the club
is situated on a magnificent site surrounded by dense forests
and granite, which offers a spectacular sight on the Joseph
lake's. Thomas McBroom, who drew the course, knew how to take
advantage of the chaotic and difficult arrangement of the ground.
He so has created a strategic course and rich in challenges
with magnificent points of view. Besides the usual golf facilities,
the club disposes a 9 holes, the Academy Course, which is ideal
for the novices and the families, and a gastronomic grill restaurant
which possesses a magnificent wine card. Possibility of organizing
reception and banquets.

The club offers at disposal luxurious villas which the architecture
is in accordance with the natural environment. Magnificently
ordered in a wooden and stony atmosphere, each villa is equipped
with 2 big rooms, private terrace and fireplace.
Green fees:
Golf course 18 holes: from $30 to $150, according to the season
and the hour of the day.
Information:
Lake Joseph Club
1072 Elgin House Road
Port Carling, Ontario
Canada, P0B 1J0
Phone: 905-841-3730
Grandview
Golf Club & Resort
The golf:
Created
in 1991, the golf course was drawn by Mark O' Meara, the champion
of the Masters & British Open of 1998, marking its debuts
in the design. As he was decided it, the course uses the natural
ability of the ground. It takes place in the middle of a magnificent
rough field, decorated with different rows of trees, with granitic
formings and with changes of rise. The wild aspect of the course
contrasts with the wide fairways, the great bunkers and the
slightly sloping greens, what makes moreover the course at the
same moment rich in challenges and very playable.
The resort:
Situated
on the banks of the Muskoka lake's, the resort offers at disposal
rooms and luxurious suites each equipped with a bathtub, fireplace,
private terrace with sight on the Grandview's Bay. Activities,
services: gourmet restaurants, spa, swimming pool, fitness,
tennis, nautical activities. Possibility of organizing banquets.
Green fees:
Golf course 18 holes: from $30 to $140.
Information:
Grandview Golf Club & Resort
939 Highway 60
Huntsville, Ontario
Canada, P1H 1Z4
Phone: 705-789-1176
Rocky
Crest Golf Club & Resort
The golf:
Placed
at the North of the Joseph's Lake, Thomas McBroom sculptured
here another spectacular course. Surrounded by pine forests,
white birches, fairways are highlighted by deep bunkers and
granitic formings which brings challenge to the game. As the
architect recognized it himself, the use of granite in the design
is totally innovative, aesthetic and strategi, and shows the
beauty of the region.
The resort:
The
resort, which was recently renewed, is situated on an approximately
283 hectare domain covered by trees. It offers at disposal lodges
of charm consisted of one or two rooms, of apartments with terrace
on two stages, all completely equipped for a stay of comfort.
Activities, services: spa, outside swimming pool, tennis courts,
volleyball, nautical activities. Possibility of organizing banquets.
Green fees:
Golf course 18 holes: from $30 to $160
Information:
Rocky Crest Resort
Hamer Bay Road, RR 1
MacTier, Ontario
Canada, P0C 1H0
Phone: 705-789-1176
Sherwood
Inn
Originally
created in 1939 by a Lawyer, the hotel has actually the image
of a "Country Inn” of new England. Built in a robust
granite, and surrounded by hundred-years-old trees, it offers
at disposal rooms and suites all comfort fitted out in independent
and out-of-the-way cottages. Activities, services: conference
room, gourmet restaurant, swimming pool, tennis, volleyball,
ping-pong, badminton, billiard table, horse-riding, nautical
activities, excursions in the nature, …
Near: numerous golf courses of which the Lake
Joseph Club.
Information:
Sherwood Inn
PO Box 400, Port Carling, Ont. P0B 1J0
Phone: 705-765-3131 - Fax: 705-765-6668
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