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Point Roberts: Home to the 8th best golf course

The Point Roberts golf course made the top ten in Golf Digest’s picks for best new affordable public golf courses in the nation, coming in at number eight.

“It’s a prestige ranking. We’re extremely proud,” said golf course manager Mark Lundrigan. He added the ranking was especially significant given the Point’s remote location. While many courses ranked were visited by hundreds of members of the rating panel, only 15 made it to the Point, barely enough to qualify the course. “Point Roberts is in the middle of nowhere but we got noticed. Everyone who rated it must have loved it.”

Golf Digest’s panel of 700 golfers evaluated nearly 200 new golf courses based on shot values, design variety, memorability, aesthetics, and playability. Bonus points were awarded to courses that allow players to walk, which the Point Roberts course does.

The 18-hole Point Roberts course officially opened in the spring of 2002 and added a restaurant and clubhouse this year. They plan to open a driving range in the spring and start on a residential component in summer 2004, starting with a first phase of 57 building lots and condominiums

Graham Cooke, who designed the course with Wayne Carleton, was also recognized by Golf Digest as the designer of the number one pick for a new Canadian golf course, Lynx at Kingswood park in New Brunswick, and the Cooke-Carleton team took second place for Canadian courses with their design for the Sun Rivers Golf Resort in Kamloops.

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