Course Design

The new Tsawwassen Springs course builds on the natural attributes of the well-loved course set out many years ago. It has always been a natural golf landscape but Ted Locke has taken advantage of modern water management techniques to enhance playability all year long, as well as creating wildlife habitat to help gain Audubon certification.

When the course is complete in spring 2013, it will naturally divide into a wilder north and a smoother south. The aim of the course is to play long but to remove long walks between holes.

There are eight holes to the north, where a serpentine wildlife habitat defines the 14th, 15th, 17th and 18th. Golfers will often see heron fishing here. The 18th comes home to a peninsular green, continuing the water theme of the shorter 11th, 12th and 13th. In general, the feel of the course is more undulating with wilder rough. There are wonderful views to the North Shore mountains at every turn.

In the south, there are ten holes. Again, a large pond —one of ten—defines the shape of many holes, especially the 7th and 8th. Mature trees, particularly noticeable when playing the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th alongside the bluffs, characterize the southern part of the course. The 1st and 10th run parallel to the extensive practice range, with the shortest hole, the 9th, closest to the new Tsawwassen Springs community retaining Gordy’s Bridge from the original course.

Over 30 mature trees are being moved from the south to the north.