Greater Victoria courses rule Golf Canada scoreboards in record-setting year<\/p>\n
Published 5:00 pm Thursday, December 11, 2025<\/p>\n
If you felt like every tee time in Greater Victoria was snapped up this year, the numbers back you up.<\/p>\n
Golf Canada\u2019s latest numbers show local courses racking up some of the country\u2019s highest totals for posted rounds in 2025, with the Island\u2019s mild, snow-light weather giving players the closest thing to a gimme in Canadian golf.<\/p>\n
Five Greater Victoria courses cracked the top 15 nationwide in posted rounds.<\/p>\n
A posted round means a player entered their score into the Golf Canada scoring system, which helps determine your handicap index.<\/p>\n
Royal Colwood led the entire country with 41,158 posted rounds, while Gorge Vale wasn\u2019t far behind at 37,884 (second in Canada). Uplands Golf Club logged 35,023 (third in Canada), Victoria Golf Club (10th in Canada) recorded 27,596, and Cordova Bay rounded out the group with 25,789 (15th in Canada).<\/p>\n
Many of those clubs spent the year hosting marquee events.<\/p>\n
Gorge Vale staged both the B.C. Junior Girls Championship<\/a> and the PGA of B.C. Championship. Victoria Golf Club welcomed the BC Club Professional Championship. Uplands again hosted the Victoria Open<\/a>, part of the PGA Tour Americas 15-stop circuit. Cordova Bay took on hosting duties for the PGA of B.C. seniors and women\u2019s championships.<\/a><\/p>\n Across the board, B.C. stood out, claiming 10 of the 15 most-played courses in the country.<\/p>\n For Golf Canada, the trend is clear.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s safe to say the Victoria area is leading the way in terms of rounds played and scores posted,\u201d said Taylor Stevenson, Golf Canada\u2019s director of golf services.<\/p>\n Nationally, the momentum isn\u2019t slowing. Canadians posted more than 11.2 million scores in 2025, up from 10.6 million the previous year. <\/p>\n \u201cThis made 2025 the single greatest year for the number of scores posted in Canadian history,\u201d Stevenson said.<\/p>\n Since 2019, the final pre-pandemic year, score posting has climbed roughly 55 per cent.<\/p>\n \u201cIn 2019, score posting totals were 7.2 million and we have seen a steady year-over-year increase since,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n According to Golf Canada, 29 per cent of Canadian golfers began playing in the last five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greater Victoria courses rule Golf Canada scoreboards in record-setting year Published 5:00 pm Thursday, December 11, 2025 If…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-339478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}