Dundee Golf Club

Open since 1970 in the rolling farm country of New Dundee, southwest of Kitchener, Dundee is a parkland eighteen that has had half a century to grow into its property. The card is unusual: six par threes, six par fours and six par fives, adding up to a par of 72 over roughly 6,165 yards from the championship tees, which keeps the round varied and gives shorter hitters real scoring chances. Decades of growth mean big, established trees frame most corridors, and ponds bring water into play on eleven holes. The ground moves more than it first appears, so uneven lies and half-club adjustments are common. A country-styled clubhouse with a patio and full restaurant anchors the property, and it is a perennial pick for best public course in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.