Kananaskis Country Golf Course

Kananaskis Country Golf Course
Club information
Coordinates50°54′10.16″N 115°8′36.16″W / 50.9028222°N 115.1433778°W / 50.9028222; -115.1433778
LocationKananaskis Improvement District, Alberta
Established1983
TypePublic
Owned byGovernment of Alberta
Operated byKan-Alta Golf Management Ltd
Total holes36
Websitekananaskisgolf.com
Mount Kidd Course
Designed byRobert Trent Jones
Par72
Length7,136 yd (6,525 m)
Course rating73.7
Slope rating140
Mount Lorette Course
Designed byRobert Trent Jones
Par72
Length7,232 yd (6,613 m)
Course rating74.6
Slope rating139

Kananaskis Country Golf Course is a public 36-hole golf course situated in Kananaskis Country, a park system west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada: in the foothills and front ranges of the Canadian Rockies.

The course opened in 1983 and was purchased for $25.5 Million. The facility is located at the south of Kananaskis Village, Alberta. There are two 18-hole golf layouts, named Mt. Lorette and Mt. Kidd, after the mountains under which they play. The course ranks frequently in the top courses in Canada including the rankings of Score Golf Magazine.[1] The two courses host about sixty thousand rounds of golf annually with eighty-five percent played by Albertans.[2]

During the June 2013 Alberta floods, Kananaskis Country "sustained the most extensive damage in its 36-year history."[2]Alberta's government committed $18 million to rebuild the course and to protect it from the future flood damage.[2]

  1. ^ Kananaskis Country Golf Course in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, nd, retrieved 13 April 2015
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference AB_2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).