Golfweek's Best top 25 modern Canadian Courses: Cabot leads the way
Welcome to the 2019 Golfweek's Best listing for modern Canadian courses, those built after 1960.
The members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course.
Those overall ratings on each course are averaged together to produce a final rating for each course. Then each course is ranked against other courses in its state, or nationally, to produce the final rankings.
GOLFWEEK'S BEST: Modern Canadian courses built before 1960
Each course is listed with its location, architect(s) and an average ranking from all the Golfweek raters who reviewed it.
Editor’s note: This list was updated Nov. 18 after one of the courses on the list was dropped because it had been closed for a period of time.
Golfweek's Best top 25 modern Canadian Courses
| 2019 Rank | Course | Location | Architect(s) | Average Rating |
| 1. | Cabot Cliffs | Inverness, Nova Scotia | Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw | 8.50 |
| 2. | Cabot Links | Inverness, Nova Scotia | Rod Whitman | 7.71 |
| 3. | Devil’s Paintbrush | Caledon Village, Ontario | Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry | 7.67 |
| 4. | Bigwin Island GC | Baysville, Ontario | Doug Carrick | 7.24 |
| 5. | Tobiano GC | Kamloops, British Columbia | Thomas McBroom | 7.24 |
| 6. | Beacon Hall GC | Aurora, Ontario | Bob Cupp and Thomas McBroom | 7.22 |
| 7. | Taboo Resort | Gravenhurst, Ontario | Ron Garl and Alan Chudnovsky, | 7.16 |
| 8. | Memphremagog GC | Magog, Quebec | Thomas McBroom | 7.10 |
| 9. | The National Golf Club of Canada | Woodbridge, Ontario | Tom Fazio and George Fazio | 7.01 |
| 10. | TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (Hoot) | Caledon, Ontario | Doug Carrick | 6.96 |
| 11. | Georgian Bay | Clarksburg, Ontario | Michael Hurdzan, Dana Fry and Jason Straka | 6.94 |
| 12. | Deer Ridge GC | Kitchener, Ontario | Thomas McBroom | 6.87 |
| 13. | Devil’s Pulpit | Caledon East,Ontario | Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry | 6.87 |
| 14. | Eagles Nest GC | Maple, Ontario | Doug Carrick | 6.86 |
| 15. | London Hunt & CC | London, Ontario | Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Rees Jones | 6.83 |
| 16. | Cobble Beach Golf Links | Kemble, Ontario | Doug Carrick | 6.80 |
| 17. | The Links at Crowbush Cove | Morell, Prince Edward Island | Thomas McBroom | 6.75 |
| 18. | Fox Harb’r Resort | Wallace, Nova Scotia | Graham Cooke | 6.75 |
| 19. | Magna GC | Aurora, Ontario | Doug Carrick | 6.72 |
| 20. | Redtail GC | Port Stanley, Ontario | Donald Steel and Tom Mackenzie | 6.67 |
| 21. | Shaughnessy G&CC | Vancouver, British Columbia | A. Vernon Macan | 6.63 |
| 22. | Deerhurst Resort (Highlands) | Huntsville, Ontario | Bob Cupp and Thomas McBroom | 6.61 |
| 23. | Kananaskis Country GC (Mt. Kidd) | Kananaskis, Alberta | Robert Trent Jones Sr. | 6.53 |
| 24. | Predator Ridge GC (Ridge) | Vernon, British Columbia | Doug Carrick | 6.51 |
| 25. | TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley (Heathlands) | Caledon, Ontario | Doug Carrick | 6.49 |