Oak Bay Golf Club

Great, golf course. It is a shorter golf course and has a few holes where it's forces you to lay up on the longer holes to make the shorter yardage work.It is a beautiful course and I would definitely recommend for any serious golfer as this is not a course someone who is new to golf should play as there are a lot of holes you have to carry a decent amount just to get a ball in play.

Beautiful golf course, lots of pretty scenery.

Beautiful course with stunning views and world class dining. Even the most skilled golfer will have a tough time on this course, the challenging par 3 with the huge cliff over Georgian Bay will make any golfer curse. Fairways and greens are kept in superb condition. Highly recommended.

Really Love Oak Bay, tough challenging course with a beautiful back drop. Also the Food at the club house is exceptional. The traditional wood burning oven is Money.

I will start by saying this course is beautiful and has some very nice holes. You will need to hit your shots on the par 3 on the green or they will be lost in the water or heavy bush. Challenging and fun course to play. We found everything well maintained except for the bunkers which were mostly unplayable if your ball went in there.The carts are equipped with a touch screen that displays yardage from your spot on each hole and can view flyovers before teeing off. Overall great experience but for a round of golf at this cost you would assume better sand even though I don’t plan on spending most of my day on the beach, 6th hole is outstanding so don’t leave your camera in the cart when walking to the tee.If you hit balls in the bush be prepared to lose them as there is warnings all over the course for poison ivy so be prepared.

Our group of six visited the restaurant on a Monday night, reserving a table earlier in the day. The restaurant was spacious with a great view of the bay and of the golf course. It is on the second floor, and there is an elevator for those who do not wish to use the stairs. Our pastas were really good as were the pickerel and the pizza from their wood fired pizza oven. One of our party had dietary choices and the restaurant got back to us when we booked to help with the menu. Much appreciated. We have a cottage nearby and it's always a treat to go to this restaurant for a fine dining treat and change from grilling your own food.

There are certainly 5 star aspects to Oak Bay. The conditioning was excellent, apart from the tees. The par 3 7th hole is their signature hole. It is a well designed hole with beautiful views to an inlet from Georgian Bay. What I saw of the clubhouse facilities looked very good. Price was $125 + HST which was fair.I admit that my opinion of the layout would likely be better if I was a more accomplished golfer. But I feel that being the course that a residential community is built around there are likely a lot of higher handicap golfers attempting to play this course. Be warned. Your golf ego will take a bruising and you will lose a lot of balls.There are multiple semi blind carries off the tee to tight fairways that seem to slope to unforgiving ‘rough’. By rough I am meaning dense forest and marsh, lined everywhere with poison ivy. The course posts many warnings about the poison ivy, so look for your lost ball at your risk. Pace of play was predictably slow. The front nine on a busy Saturday took 2 hrs and 45 minutes. Pace improved on the back nine.Despite a shorter yardage, this courses has a deservedly high slope. Because of the short yardage the low handicap player may find this course less than satisfying whereas the high handicapper will probably leave frustrated. So I give failing marks to the designer and course developers.I won’t return until my game improves, which unfortunately I know is not going to happen.

Made dinner reservations tonight and we were excited to watch the Canadian Open there. We arrive and they had no clue what we were talking about and we asked them to put it on TV and they said no they wouldn’t and then said they didn’t get the channel? Seriously what golf course is not going to play the Canadian Open? We immediately left and went to another restaurant who happily put it in the TV so we could see the first Canadian win it in 69 years! What a fail Oak Bay!

Beautiful course! Unforgiving though, and very narrow for the average Joe… bring a few extra balls. Would love to come back at the end of the season and see if it’s as tough as it felt!

Truthfully I am not the greatest golfer lol, and didn't enjoy playing this very challenging course! All I could really say is that it is a beautiful well manicured course. But in the last year or so I started playing the the hybrid format and now I really enjoy playing here. It is an awesome course with super people that look after you from start to finish. The dining is another unique experience as the view ,food and service has always been great. Five stars hands down!