by Karen Misuraca, KarenMisuraca.com

One of the premier ski destinations in the world, chosen as the site of the 2010 winter Olympics, Whistler is a magical wilderness in the Canadian Rockies, in British Columbia just north of Vancouver. Surrounding the European-style tourist-oriented village, at the base of Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains are four visually spectacular championship golf courses by top-name architects, making this Canada’s most popular and largest golf mecca.

The golfing season runs from May through the middle of October. At 2,200 feet in elevation, the magenta and blue lupine line the fairways in spring, while alders blaze red and aspens are golden against the dark firs in the fall. On rugged, rocky terraces at the base of Blackcomb Mountain, the Chateau Whistler Golf Club was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., on tilting, terrain studded with monumental granite outcroppings (http://www.chateauwhister.com). Cascading across the course are three glacier-fed streams, spawning grounds for Rainbow and Kokanee trout. Black bears gorge on wild berries in the summertime, while coyotes and deer stand their ground on the edges of the forest. Golfers in the know bring their binoculars and cameras for the daily pageant of golden eagles, swooping osprey and pileated woodpeckers. (more…)

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