I like golfing the city courses. Pretty damn good courses and the value is top notch. Can golf 18 on the weekend with a cart (split with someone) for less than $80 total (at Shag). The prices go down from there too depending what day/time you golf.
I love playing other courses too but from a cost perspective, those would be once in a while. The Kootenay region has awesome courses (St. Eugene's Mission, Bootleg Gap, Shadow Mountain, etc.). If I'm going to spend some money on courses I go to those ones and make a trip out of it.
Crowsnest Pass is a gem for southern Alberta courses. Also quite enjoy innisfail, sundre, and even coyote creek. Used to like Water Valley but their customer service is pretty brutal and really turned me off playing there.
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Originally Posted by dirk diggler
some courses that are a drive that are decent are Picture Butte (27) and Lee Creek.
Crowsnest Pass is a gem for southern Alberta courses. Also quite enjoy innisfail, sundre, and even coyote creek. Used to like Water Valley but their customer service is pretty brutal and really turned me off playing there.
Good to hear, I'm heading to Crowsnest next month to play 2 rounds. Have no idea what to expect.
Agreed on Sundre and Innisfail. Stettler has a nice one too, Pheasantback.
Crowsnest Pass is a gem for southern Alberta courses. Also quite enjoy innisfail, sundre, and even coyote creek. Used to like Water Valley but their customer service is pretty brutal and really turned me off playing there.
Is that still the case with the new ownership group? Honest question, last time I played the course was in 2020 which I think was still the old owners.
Is that still the case with the new ownership group? Honest question, last time I played the course was in 2020 which I think was still the old owners.
I've been told the new owners are fine.
I swore I'd never go back, but one of the guys in our foursome that fated day has been back and said it's much better.
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What was so bad about it? I've had a lot of grumpy pro shop attendants who basically threw a cart key at me or acted like I was inconveniencing them just by being there but there is very little customer service actually required for me to play a round of golf, so it would have to be pretty egregious for me to swear off a course.
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Their pace of play straddled "Even though I already drove out here and paid, maybe we should just head back and hit up a bar" lengths at times. Slight exaggeration maybe, but damn they use to suck. Not sure if it's better now.
What was so bad about it? I've had a lot of grumpy pro shop attendants who basically threw a cart key at me or acted like I was inconveniencing them just by being there but there is very little customer service actually required for me to play a round of golf, so it would have to be pretty egregious for me to swear off a course.
They were always been a bit standoffish at the pro shop, and would always warn me "Don't drive the carts in the tall rough or we will remove the key" which felt accusatory, but I didn't care too much as the course was great.
I've written about why I stopped golfing there before, but briefly, we set up a tournament with them. The cost they charged was approx. green fees plus a couple hundred that they gave back as pro shop vouchers we could use as prizes. Tournament ended early evening, and we planned to go to one of the player's places for a BBQ as he lived just outside of Water Valley. So after players finished their round, they handed in their scorecard to me then headed to the BBQ. My friend and I stayed behind to collect all scorecards, tally scores and figure out prizes before going to the BBQ.
The vouchers they gave us had an expiry date for that same day. This was not in the contract we signed, nor in any of their documentation. We went to the pro shop to say that everyone had already left, so the vouchers couldn't be used that day. Could they extend the expiry? They said no. We reduced our extension ask from a couple weeks, to a week, down to a day - at least give people a chance to redeem the voucher.
The person behind the counter was sympathetic, but she was on the phone with the owner who gave a flat no to every request. My friend ended up having to buy stuff at the pro shop with the vouchers so that they wouldn't be wasted, then we gave cash from our pockets as prizes. It was ridiculous, and lined up with other stories of the owners being unreasonable that we had heard.
Good news is, when we heard there were new owners, we went back and it was night and day. They were welcoming and accommodating - actually felt like they wanted us to be there. I went a second time with my wife, and we got rained out on 7. Went to the pro shop, and they gave us two rain checks for a full 18 with cart to be used anytime that season. I honestly doubt the previous owners would have given us anything.
As a whiner who doesn’t golf much, what courses around Calgary/southern AB do people recommend that hit a good cross section between price (cheap as possible) and fun?
I would reiterate what others have said about the city courses - Shag is a cute little course at a reasonable price, for instance.
I would also say that you will probably get the most bang for your buck at courses in small towns - almost always better value, and often they are little gems. Usually easier to get a tee time too. As to specifics, I can't help there - maybe others can - as I am not on that circuit anymore.
So this is a weird thing... a month or so ago I had a streak going of good shots with driver (not long, but straight enough that I was hitting a lot of fairways). That left me and I started slicing it again. So this evening I figure I go to the range and try some stuff to just see if I can find a way out of it. I hit everything good except driver, and then I decided to just try lining up so my club head is closer to me than the ball - almost like a practice swing. When I come through the ball I then have to reach away from my body a bit in order to make contact, which counteracts the motion that's giving it a bunch of right spin.
This seems to have more or less solved the problem... which I'm guessing will work until it doesn't, but I don't know why that never occurred to me before. I know it sounds like a recipe for a bunch of shanks off the toe but I actually never came close to that in about 20 balls... which probably means I'm saving those for the course, but still.
__________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
So this is a weird thing... a month or so ago I had a streak going of good shots with driver (not long, but straight enough that I was hitting a lot of fairways). That left me and I started slicing it again. So this evening I figure I go to the range and try some stuff to just see if I can find a way out of it. I hit everything good except driver, and then I decided to just try lining up so my club head is closer to me than the ball - almost like a practice swing. When I come through the ball I then have to reach away from my body a bit in order to make contact, which counteracts the motion that's giving it a bunch of right spin.
This seems to have more or less solved the problem... which I'm guessing will work until it doesn't, but I don't know why that never occurred to me before. I know it sounds like a recipe for a bunch of shanks off the toe but I actually never came close to that in about 20 balls... which probably means I'm saving those for the course, but still.
Good solution, promoted an inside out path. You are probably right there’s a hazard here that it will only solve the problem for now, but it’s pretty darn nice when you can figure something like that out. Would be interest if you just slowly worked the club back to the normal start if you could retain the swing path/thought.
I had a slice my whole life until a friend who was a pretty decent golfer made me try that trick. Worked immediately.
The slice can still come and go but I appreciate having some idea how to counteract it with just my normal swing by adjusting the ball position. And for someone not planning on lessons I’m grateful for it.
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So this is a weird thing... a month or so ago I had a streak going of good shots with driver (not long, but straight enough that I was hitting a lot of fairways). That left me and I started slicing it again. So this evening I figure I go to the range and try some stuff to just see if I can find a way out of it. I hit everything good except driver, and then I decided to just try lining up so my club head is closer to me than the ball - almost like a practice swing. When I come through the ball I then have to reach away from my body a bit in order to make contact, which counteracts the motion that's giving it a bunch of right spin.
This seems to have more or less solved the problem... which I'm guessing will work until it doesn't, but I don't know why that never occurred to me before. I know it sounds like a recipe for a bunch of shanks off the toe but I actually never came close to that in about 20 balls... which probably means I'm saving those for the course, but still.
Of the millions of YouTube videos out there, this one has helped me the most with my swing path.
Encourages the correct backswing to naturally put you in an in to out follow through & full rotation.
This makes it difficult to come down over the top or out to in; might help you out.
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