Kananaskis Country Golf Course

Kananaskis Country Golf Course is a publicly accessible world-renowned 36-hole golf course situated in Kananaskis Country, a park system west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the foothills and front ranges of the Canadian Rockies which opened in 1983 at a cost of $25.5 million. The golf course near Kananaskis Village, Alberta designed by the golf course architect Robert Trent Jones, consists of two 18-hole golf layouts, played beneath Mt.Lorette and Mt.Kidd, after which the courses are respectively named.Score Golf Magazine has consistently ranked this facility as a top 100 course in Canada. Kananaskis Country Golf Course is part of the collection of seven golf courses and resorts in Alberta, the Canadian Rockies Golf – "the most storied and recognized group of golf courses in Canada." About sixty thousand rounds of golf were played there annually with eighty-five percent played by Albertans. The golf course includes the pro-shop, club house, tournament centre and other golf course buildings which were valued at $15 million in 2015. During the June 2013 Alberta floods, Kananaskis Country "sustained the most extensive damage in its 36-year history." The Alberta government committed $18 million to rebuild the Course and to protect it from future flood damage.

The course was built while Premier Peter Lougheed was in office at a cost of $25.5 million using energy resource money from the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund to diversify Alberta's economy. Since its opening in 1983 Kan-Alta Golf Management Ltd has had the lease to operate the Kananaskis Country Golf Course. Kan-Alta Golf is now the construction manager for the restoration of the golf course following the 2013 flood.

Jones, the architect described the course's location in the Rockies as "the best natural setting I’ve ever been given to work with.” Early in his career Jones had formed a partnership with Canadian architect Stanley Thompson, and he helped design several courses in Canada, including Capilano in Vancouver and Banff in the Canadian Rockies. Between 1931 and 1999, Jones designed or re-designed about 500 golf courses in at least 40 U.S. states and 35 other countries.

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