Bear Mountain Golf Resort is home to Vancouver Island's only Jack and Steve Nicklaus co-designed golf course - The Mountain Course. However that is all about to change, as a second Nicklaus-designed course - The Valley Course - is scheduled to open later this summer! Bear Mountain Golf and Country Club will be the first 36-hole Nicklaus-designed course in Canada. Also set to open in 2008 is the exclusive Nicklaus Academy; a full-service golf academy with state-of-the-art Nicklaus technology.

You could argue for hours about whether Tiger or Jack is the top golfer of all time, but there is no doubt about who is the most influential. Nicklaus is now one of the game's premier course designers, noted for the incredibly high quality and inventiveness of his layouts. Bear Mountain Golf and Country Club is a wonderful example of Nicklaus design, costing approximately one million dollars a hole, funded by a coalition of former and current National Hockey League stars. After opening in the summer of 2003, the Mountain course was rated the #1 new course in Western Canada and 2 years later, #1 golf course in all of Canada. One can only imagine the Valley Course will be the perfect complement.

Located twenty minutes north of downtown Victoria, the stunning, 1,500-acre property is a natural wonder of rocks, rivers, valleys, forests, and mountain peaks, and Nicklaus has stamped the landscape with his indelible paw print. At Bear Mountain, Nicklaus has accomplished the rare feat of making the course a tough challenge for the low handicappers while offering the ordinary golfer an enjoyable test.

Keep an eye out for the tiny treat that Nicklaus devised while making a site inspection. He discovered a tiny spur of land that jutted out above the fourteenth green, figured it was the perfect spot for a betting hole, and shoe-horned in a wonderful 141-yard, par three Bear Mountain’s nineteenth hole. The green seems to float in between some of the Island’s most spectacular scenery, ringed by the Pacific Ocean, the Olympic Mountains, Mount Baker, and the city of Victoria quite a foursome. Bear Mountain is a legendary course created by a legendary designer.

And coming in the summer of 2008 is the second Nicklaus designed course at Bear Mountain, The Valley Course.

Contact Bear Mountain Golf & Country Club
2020 Country Club Way, Victoria, BC V9B 6R3
tel: (250) 744.2327 - call toll free: 1.888.533.2327
email: info@bearmountain.ca
web: www.bearmountain.ca