2002 Legends on the Niagara Battlefield & Ussher's Creek Niagara Falls

The Legends on the Niagara is a 45-hole golf complex destined to become one of Canada's premier public golf facilities and includes two championship layouts - the Battlefield and Ussher's Creek courses. Also on the site is a 9-hole executive design, the Chippawa course, a 45-acre, 360-degree practice area dubbed "the firing range" - the only one of its kind in Canada - and the Jim McLean Golf School. Designed by renowned architects Thomas McBroom (Ussher's Creek GC) and Douglas Carrick (Battlefield GC), the complex incorporates a unique blend of secluded Carolinian forested areas, sculptured links, scores of sparkling white Ohio-sand bunkers, meandering Ussher's Creek, and several large man-made lakes.

The Battlefield Course (Doug Carrick, architect) presents a sweeping vista across a gently contoured lakes-and-meadow countryside. Battlefield is made up of an interesting blend of lakeside holes, links-style holes bordered by tall fescue, and a handful of secluded holes surrounded by mature Carolinian forest. Water comes into play on seven holes. Where water doesn't come into play, strategically positioned fairway, waste and greenside bunkers do.     ( Battlefield profile ) The Ussher's Creek Course, (Thomas McBroom, architect) has an understated look that blends with the natural landscape, and several holes are defined by Ussher's Creek itself. Ussher's Creek is made up of a mix of water holes, Scottish links-style holes, and (predominantly) woodland holes with tree-lined fairways. Water comes into play on nine holes, and where it doesn't, clusters of strategically positioned fairway and greenside bunkers do.     ( Ussher's Creek profile )

Brian Moore Director of Golf Operations Niagara Parks Commission