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Course Profile Spreading over rolling parkland, through woodlots and around numerous ponds, the Niagara Falls GC is one of Niagara's favourite courses. Enjoyed by local golfers and annually selected in "Readers' Choice Awards" as both a popular tournament venue and recreational course, the Niagara Falls GC is a great place to tee it up.

The Niagara Falls GC is ideally suited to mid-to-high handicappers, although from the tips it challenges even the most accomplished golfers. Requiring a mix of a solid tee game, good iron play, an imaginative short game and sound course management, the course is both challenging and player friendly. Seemingly vulnerable to long hitters, strategic design and numerous hazards will quickly punish inaccuracy and imprudent risk taking. All in all, the Niagara Falls GC presents a wonderful mix of holes that tests every aspect of one's game.

Offering multiple tee boxes and playing up to 6135 yards from the tips, the Niagara Falls GC provides an enjoyable golf experience. The front nine demands accuracy and prudence off the tee, while the back nine calls for good shotmaking. Niagara Falls GC practice facilities include a driving range, target green, practice green, chipping area and CPGA instruction.   Stay & Play at Niagara Falls GC

 

Course Review The Niagara Falls GC, long a Niagara favourite, features gently rolling terrain with few elevation changes. Its parkland setting and excellent conditioning makes for a most enjoyable round of golf. A variety of hole designs, coupled with the rolling landscape, wooded areas, numerous bunkers and ponds add both visual appeal and challenge. This is a layout that rewards accuracy off the tee and strategic play rather than distance off the tee.

Priding itself in course conditioning, Niagara Falls GC features generous landing areas, sparse rough, tree-lined fairways, shallow bunkers and several formidable water hazards. The greens are average in size, "hold" approach shots very well, putt quick and true. Its shorter length and generous fairways encourage abandon off the tee, but trees and fairway bunkers put a premium on keeping the ball in the short grass. A number of ponds are scattered throughout the course, increasing the importance of a straight tee game, strategic approach shots and, at times, laying up.

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The front nine rewards accurate driving, strategic ball placement, even laying up occasionally. From the outset, there are a number of birdie holes provided the ball is kept in play, but narrow fairways and trees on # 1, 2 and 4 make these holes play longer, tougher. Seemingly short and easy holes are nicely complicated by bunkers, tree lines and ponds, while the 8th & 9th holes offer the opportunity to hit driver with abandon. Putts run quick atop finely manicured greens, following sometimes imperceptible undulations that make 3-putts commonplace.
	The back nine is a bit more demanding, both off the tee and on approach shots when correct yardages and accurate iron play are key. The par-3 10th, with trees seemingly everywhere is a tough start. Birdie the par-5 12th to begin the short, though anything but easy, middle holes. Resist any temptation to cut the corner and go for the green on # 13 - the lake is so much larger and closer to the green that it might appear. Enjoy the tiny par-3 15th because the closing holes are very demanding. Great driving and more than a little courage might make the par-5 17th a good birdie opportunity, but the approach shot is all carry, over water, to a large sloping green.
The finishing hole presents two options. Fairway bunkers put big hitters at risk, while laying up makes for a tough approach shot, bringing the pond on the left into play. Going over the scorecard at the 19th Hole reminds one why the course enjoys a regional reputation for excellence - both in terms of conditioning and playability - for golfers at all skills levels. Close to the Falls and all that the Honeymoon Capital has to offer, a round at Niagara Falls GC will add to the enjoyment of a visit to Niagara.