I have had the great fortune to have played Cap many times over the past 12 years. Some observations:
- The member's first tee makes #1 play about 450. For some tournaments, part of the putting green becomes the 1st tee - playing the 472 printed on the card. Makes for some kind of nervy tee shot, 20 feet from your competition, especially with trees on both sides!
- The green on #7 is world-class. At the end of what was the longest par 4 on the course, and uphill no less, a green about 40 yards long and about 10! yards wide, heavily guarded on the left by a steep slope and right by a bunker, then trees from which you cannot recover from. It's pretty flat though.
- #15 - 18: the toughest finish I can remember. #15: 430 yds, dogleg left, fairway sloping right, uphill approach to a raised green guarded front right. Best tee shot: a hard hook for a good angle. #16: 240 yds, flat and usually a 3 wood within view of the clubhouse behind. #18: 580 yds, split fairway for the 2nd shot, the tiny right fairway affords a view down the length of the green and some depth perception to the enormous, flat raised green - which has to be the largest on the course. Otherwise a semi-blind pitch! The view from the back of 18 green is phenomenally satisfying. You can sense how difficult the topography would have been to negotiate for Thompson back in the 1920s.
- Though very wet in the shoulder seasons, the city forced the club to build their own water reservoir and not take from the city's supply causing severe drought-like conditions at times during the summer.
- The downstairs men's grill, which is technically in the locker room, is killer.
Easily the finest course in my home province of B.C. And I'm a member elsewhere in the city, thankfully the interclubs allowed me to play there alot.