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The Fairmont Banff Springs Golf Course's principal layout is the 18-hole Stanley Thompson course in Banff National Park. Thompson was commissioned in 1927, the first nine of his new course opened with the clubhouse in August 1928, and holes 10-18 followed in 1929. The present course plays to par 71 and 6,938 yards.
Fairmont publishes a Gold-tee rating of 71.3 and slope of 133, while the White tees are rated 69.7/126. Golf at Banff predates Thompson: a nine-hole course opened in 1911, Donald Ross later designed an 18-hole course that opened in 1923, and Thompson's project replaced it. In 1989 the facility expanded with the nine-hole Tunnel Mountain course by Geoffrey Cornish and Bill Robinson.
The course is an 18-hole resort golf course. It plays to par 71, 6,938 yards, course rating 71.3 and slope rating 133. Designed by Donald Ross and Stanley Thompson and Geoffrey Cornish and Bill Robinson, the course originally opened in 1928. It is open to the public. On-site facilities include Bar, Café, Driving range, Putting greens, Golf pro shop, Club rentals.
Golf at Banff Springs began before the present Thompson course. William Thomson was brought from Winnipeg in 1910 and construction of a nine-hole course began in 1911, officially opening on 15 July. Expansion followed, and Donald Ross was engaged in 1919 to design an 18-hole course for the hotel.
Ross's layout opened on 1 May 1923.
After Stanley Thompson's Jasper course drew acclaim, he was selected in 1927 to create a new Banff course intended to be the 'final word in golf'. His routing follows the Bow River and uses the mountain landscape as a fundamental part of the design.
The first nine of Thompson's course and its new clubhouse opened in August 1928, with holes 10-18 opening in 1929. In 1989 Geoffrey Cornish and Bill Robinson completed the adjoining Tunnel Mountain nine, expanding the property to 27 holes. The hole rotation of the Stanley Thompson 18 was also changed in 1989 to the sequence used today.
SCORE Magazine rated Banff Springs the top golf course in Western Canada in 1992, and Canada Post issued a stamp depicting the course in 1995.
Fairmont operates both the Stanley Thompson 18 and Tunnel Mountain 9 during a seasonal May-to-October golf season.
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