{"id":866574,"date":"2026-08-21T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866574\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:08:13","slug":"three-edmonton-area-golf-courses-named-among-canadas-best-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866574\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Edmonton-area golf courses named among Canada&#8217;s best | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no shortage of fantastic golf courses across Canada, and a new ranking of the country\u2019s best includes three courses in the Edmonton region.<\/p>\n<p>Scoregolf\u00a0has unveiled its 2026 list of Canada\u2019s top 100 golf courses, with Blackhawk, Royal Mayfair, and The Old Course at Wolf Creek all making the cut.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 20th edition of the list since it was launched in 1988. A volunteer panel ranked courses on nine factors, with fun factor weighed most heavily at 20 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Beauty, design, challenge, and strategy each made up 15 per cent, while conditioning and quality of the par-3, par-4, and par-5 holes were each worth five per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Blackhawk Golf Club was the highest-ranked course in the Edmonton region, landing at 20.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking described the course as spectacular.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/159971101_3779426398810117_3867825408964813661_n.jpg\" alt=\"No photo description available.\" title=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1440\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackhawk Golf Club\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing the ground and playing the angles is what designer Rod Whitman asks the golfer to do, which makes for a fun, creative day,\u201d it wrote about the club located between Edmonton and Devon.<\/p>\n<p>Its 11th hole was also described as \u201cone of the best par 5s anywhere,\u201d while selective tree removal over the years was credited with helping the course maintain its reputation.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Mayfair, nestled in Edmonton\u2019s river valley, ranked 87th, moving up one spot from the 2024 list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/774042538_18417177775145041_5500841084277286480_n.jpg\" alt=\"May be an image of golf, grass and golf course\" title=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2304\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Royal Mayfair Golf Club\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>The Stanley-Thompson-designed course, host of this year\u2019s CPKC Women\u2019s Open, was recognized for its setting above the North Saskatchewan River and holes that wind through tall evergreens.<\/p>\n<p>About 95 kilometres south of Edmonton, The Old Course at Wolf Creek was 97th on the list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/648318684_1518169433647729_5359647330353518448_n.jpg\" alt=\"No photo description available.\" title=\"\" class=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wolf Creek Golf Resort\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The ranking praised its old-school layout, native fescue, tricky pot bunkers and spacious, rolling greens, calling it a must-visit for golf course architecture enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>Other Alberta spots to make the list included <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/calgary\/calgry-best-golf-courses-canada\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight courses in and around Calgary<\/a>, including a number of courses in idyllic Rocky Mountain locations including Kananaskis, Canmore, and Banff.<\/p>\n<p>Cabot Cliffs in Inverness, Nova Scotia, was named Canada\u2019s top golf course, followed by Cabot Links, Toronto\u2019s St. George\u2019s Golf and Country Club and Toronto Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone looking for a road trip from Edmonton, Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is no shortage of fantastic golf courses across Canada, and a new ranking of the country\u2019s best&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-866574","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\/866574","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=866574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}