Ashburn Golf Club (New)

Two great courses at two distinctly different locations—that’s Ashburn. Stay in the city and try the historic Old Course, or venture a few minutes from Halifax and challenge yourself against the New Course, where the Web.com Tour played. In recent years the New Course hosted exhibition matches featuring the likes of Mike Weir, Matt Kuchar, Graham DeLaet and legend Tom Watson. Ashburn’s “New” course is nearly 50 years old now, and remains one of the stalwart tests in the Canadian game. Created by Stanley Thompson associate Geoffrey Cornish (a Canadian Golf Hall of Fame member who worked with Thompson at courses like Highlands Links and Capilano), New Ashburn has been called a “spectacularly strong layout, featuring fiendishly tilted fairways, unyielding rough, and large, fast greens,” in John Gordon’s Great Golf Courses of Canada. It is certainly built on an incredible piece of rambling and tilted land, with holes playing up and down dramatic vistas.