Lambton Golf & Country Club

Set on 171 acres along the Humber River and Black Creek in Toronto’s west end, Lambton Golf & Country Club today operates as a private, year-round club with 27 holes of golf—the 18-hole Championship Course and the 9-hole Valley Course—plus tennis and a modern clubhouse. The Championship Course reopened in 2010 after a comprehensive redesign by Rees Jones that lengthened the layout to a back-tee yardage over 7,100 yards, rebuilt greens and bunkers, and altered the opening and closing stretches; the Valley Course followed with its own renovation the next season. Practice provisions include a range and short-game areas; the club also supports a robust competitive calendar and has periodically hosted provincial events since the redesign. While the property retains the rolling topography and ravine-edge vistas that framed Lambton’s earliest tournaments, the day-to-day playing experience is that of a contemporary, strategy-forward course with multiple tee decks and renewed green contours. Visitors today would encounter a club that presents itself as thoroughly modern in presentation while openly acknowledging more than a century of architectural interventions by figures such as Tom Bendelow, Harry Colt, A.W. Tillinghast, Stanley Thompson, Donald Ross, Robbie Robinson, Graham Cooke and, most recently, Rees Jones.