Whistle Bear Golf Club Review
Carrick's best inland design outside Muskoka, in a Cambridge field that gave him nothing to work with.
| Category | Critic | Users |
|---|---|---|
| Course design | Great | |
| Conditioning | Great | |
| Scenery | Good | |
| Value | Good | |
| Overall | Great |
Whistle Bear is proof of what a designer can do with poor land. The site is flat Waterloo County farmland, and Carrick moved enough earth to build a course of rolling fairways, grass faced bunkers, mounding that frames every hole and greens with real contour, in a style somewhere between a links and an American parkland. The result is a strategic course, with holes that reward the right line and punish the wrong one, and a set of par threes that is among the best in the region.
Conditioning is a real strength, with fast greens and firm fairways maintained to a private club's standard. The scenery is the course itself, since there is little around it; a golfer who needs trees and water will find it austere. The green fee is fair for the quality and the club is welcoming to visitors. It is a course that reveals itself over several rounds, and one that repays them.
Whistle Bear Golf Club at a glance
- Location
- Cambridge, Ontario
- Course designer
- Doug Carrick
- Holes
- 18
- Par
- 72
- Green fee
- 150
- Opened
- 2001
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