Grand-Mere Golf Club Course ProfileIn yesterday's featured interview, I mentioned Grand-Mere a couple of times. It was a gentlemen named Brad Faller, who sent me Anthony Gholz book on Colt & Alison, that led me to this absolutely brilliant Walter J. Travis (1917) and C.H. Alison (1922) design roughly halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, and I've since been largely infatuated with it: shades of the English heathlands, the northeast, even some homages to both of their time at Pine Valley... it has it all! When I first visited, I was even more surprised the golf course was largely unheralded in the larger scope of Canadian discourse, but it's deserving of being held in the same regard as many of the famed Canadian golf courses because the architecture is that good.
Andy Staples is the consulting architect on record and there has already been some tree removal done. There are plans to bring some of the missing bunkers back, expand the greens, tidy up drainage and improve playing conditions. For now, it's a diamond in the rough that's well worth having eyes on it.
Here's a photo to whet the appetite...
