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The course design takes full advantage of the rugged Canadian Shield landscape
of high granite cliffs, tall white pines, and interesting scenic elevated tee offs. Enjoy our immaculate bent grass fairways, with fast greens and award winning course conditioning. Bring your camera and be prepared to want to play it again and
again!
• Overview
• Scorecard
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• Awards/Testimonials
• Our Team
• Hall of Fame
• Local Course Guide
• Directions
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Course Profile
- 18 Hole Championship design, Semi-Private Golf Course
- Well balanced design, 9 holes into club house and 9 holes out with a BBQ Express lunch stop at the Club House for take-out food and beverages on your way to the 10th hole.
- Par 72, 5 par threes, 5 par fives, 8 par fours.
- Five sets of tees allow golfers of various levels
to enjoy the course.
- Slope and Rating please see our score card
section on the web site
- Course designed and built by Mr. Boyd Barr
(Barr Designs) see his profile and portfolio on
“The Team” section on this site.
- Bent grass greens and fairways with top quality
Hutchinson brilliant white sand bunkers.
- The design features a “target style” golf course
with huge elevation changes and a layout cut through unique Canadian Shield rock outcroppings.
- A 7,000 square foot Club House facility features a huge porch with a panoramic view of the St. Lawrence River
and overlooking the 1st tee.
- Shuttle service from the Glen House dock is
available for golfers arriving by boat.
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About the Course
Smuggler’s Glen Golf Course is a championship 18 hole facility that opened on July 21st 2005 for public and member play. The developers of Smuggler’s Glen, the Seal family, have owned and operated the Glen House Resort since 1962. The owners have over 50 years of experience in the hospitality industry and have invested a considerable amount of capital to create the area’s newest enhancement, Smuggler’s Glen Golf Course. The Glen House is proud to offer another recreational attraction to a region that is already world famous as a destination for boating, fishing, and vacationing amidst the beauty of the 1000 Islands.
Smuggler’s Glen Golf Course is situated in the Thousand Islands area adjacent to the St. Lawrence River. The course represents an interesting blend of nature and design. The generous fairways and gently contoured greens set in a pristine forest environment are inviting and enjoyable. Brilliant white sand bunkers, refreshing river breezes and dramatic elevation changes add excitement to every round. |
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A Natural Setting
Boyd Barr, the designer of Barr Designs, has come up with an outstanding and unique golf course design incorporating many natural features of our rugged Canadian Shield topography within the parameters of golf architecture. The golf course features fabulous vistas and interesting tee shots from several highly elevated tees. The course design takes full advantage of the natural terrain of mature mixed forests, tall white pines, high granite cliffs, rolling hills and valleys and unique flora including wild fescue grasses, mosses and ferns. It is common to see deer, wild turkeys, hawks, foxes, turtles and other animals living in and around the property. The five-lined skink (lizard), featured on our web site is an endangered resident of our course. Naturalists consider the skink significant and unique. We will use its image as a reminder of our commitment to work within, and to exceed modern environmental practices.
The course was a challenge to build as extra funds were required to blast and carve the course through the rugged Canadian Shield granite outcroppings. The course has a special feel and distinction defined by its natural park setting. In fact three holes (#4, #5, and #6) were carefully built to preserve natural wetlands habitat that are located within a newly sanctioned 300 acre Landon Bay environmentally protected biosphere preserve, referred to as the 1000 Island Arch. These three holes are located in what the Provincial Government has considered an A.N.S.I. (Designated Area of Natural and Scientific Interest). These environmental features have been included within our outstanding golf design that is in keeping with the natural beauty of The Thousand Islands. |
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Outstanding Test of Golf:
The course has an exciting balance of scenic beauty, challenge and playability for golfers of all abilities to enjoy. The golf course features a layout that requires a great deal of accuracy off the tee and risk/reward shot making ability. With five sets of tees on each hole the course will accommodate and challenge both the new golfer and the seasoned pro. Smuggler’s Glen Golf Course has generous landing areas off the tee and sizeable greens but when played from its full length, with longer rough and fast greens the course will provide a true challenge. The course has been recognized as one of the top public courses in Ontario. We hope it is a “must play” if you live in or come to visit the 1000 Islands |
We hope you enjoy playing our course!
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