Osprey Valley Golf Resort - Hoot Course
 Orangeville, Ontario. Canada (Heathland, 1993; Hoot and Toot, 2002)

It is always a daunting prospect for an architect to create multiple courses on the same site. After all, these courses will always be scrutinized and their respective merits pegged against the others.

Considering this, Doug’s Osprey Valley project, developed over a decade, is one of the most extraordinary undertakings in Canadian golf.

Osprey Valley consists of three distinctive and different golf courses, that compliment one another and together create an unparalleled golf experience.

The first course, entitled simply Heathlands, is the architect’s homage to the great Scottish courses like Gleneagles. On a site devoid of trees, Doug developed a fascinating links-like course with pot bunkers and rolling greens protected by undulating chipping areas. This distinctive vision has drawn golfers from all over Canada and the U.S. and the course’s reputation continues to grow now more than a decade after it first opened.

Nearly 10 years after the Heathlands opened, Doug created two new courses that were distinctly different from the first.

Cutting through a native pine forest and utilizing massive, natural expanses of sand, the Hoot is perhaps Doug’s boldest design to date. The course features a wide variety of holes, from a driveable, risk/reward par four to tree-lined Carolina-style two shot wonder.

The final course, called Toot, is a classic-styled parkland course that was created over a natural, rolling setting. Deep, bold bunkering and large, generous greens make Toot a challenge and a pleasure at the same time.

The new courses have continued to expand on the reputation initially developed by the Heathlands course.

“Both of Osprey’s new courses are visually stunning and will put a golfer’s game to the supreme test,” The Toronto Star’s Mark Atchison wrote.

Awards and Accolades:

All three courses ranked among the Top 50 in Ontario by Ontario Golf magazine

Hoot course ranked #16 in Canada by Globegolf

Heathlands course ranked #33 in Canada by Score Magazine

                   

                   

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