West Vancouver’s Gleneagles Golf Course
One of the best 9 hole courses in Canada.
Having served local golfers since 1927, Greater Vancouver’s fifth oldest continuously operated public golf course has a storied past and was well known for its charming eccentricities.
B.C.’s premier golf architect of the day, A.V. Macan, was brought in to produce the nine-hole layout. Having already established a firm reputation by designing a number of prominent BC courses–including Marine Drive (1922) and the original Shaughnessy (1926-27)– Macan’s grasp of the local landscape and climate conditions made him the ideal choice for the new ‘Gleneagles’ golf course.
Over the decades, Gleneagles had its ups and downs, and was acquired by the District of West Vancouver by municipal plebiscite in 1958. In the late 1990s, the course’s historic connection to the community began to be recognized and the District of West Vancouver committed funds to improve the facilities, both on course and off.
Then slowly, all at once everything changed.
