Club de Golf Cap-Rouge

Club de Golf Cap-Rouge: Top-quality golf courses around Québec City are not so numerous, but here at Cap-Rouge you'll find one of the best and most accessible. This well-maintained and enjoyable layout lies close to the St Lawrence River in a quiet residential neighbourhood. River views and riverside holes will not feature in your round, but this good-looking and well-presented course will test and probe your game in an attractive parkland setting.

The walkable terrain is home to a pleasant mix of straightaway and gently doglegging holes that meander out-and-back in two nine-hole loops. Only at the start and finish of each nine, will you encounter some modest elevation change. Any housing hereabouts is set well back from the course; out of sight and out of harm's way for the most part.

The majority of holes at Cap-Rouge are pleasantly tree-lined, but not densely so. Ball-finding if you are wayward should not be too problematic, unless you stray well beyond the tree-lined course perimeter.

On a few occasions ponds sidle up alongside the greens, not least at three of the four par-3s. Also to be reckoned with around the greens and along several fairways is a stylish array of sand-faced, tongued bunkers.

This attractive and well-crafted course, offers an enjoyable round of golf in a pleasant and quiet parkland environment. If you want a longer and tougher challenge, then you'll need to cross the St Lawrence River and head a few kilometres down one of its tributaries (the Chaudière River) to La Tempête Golf Club.