London Hunt Golf & Country Club

When London Hunt Club moved from its central location in the southern Ontario town of the same name in the late 1950s to a new 275-acre location five miles west, it did what clubs across the U.S. and Canada were doing: it hired Robert Trent Jones to build 27 new holes. The championship 18 opened in 1962 and has been the site of numerous prestigious Canadian tournaments through the years. Rees Jones renovated the course in 2000, and in 2022 and 2023, Ohio-based architects and father-son team of Michael and Chris Hurdzan completed another major remodel, the thrust of which was to improve drainage and replace aging bunkers, which were strategically shifted and moved in the process. Fairways were modestly widened and altered, and new turf went down throughout. Always a scenic, isolated property with several of Trent Jones’ water features and holes that run aside the appropriately named Thames River, London Hunt now has the course conditions and infrastructure to improve its current position of no. 22 in the Best in Canada ranking.