With the understanding that Osprey Valley would be a multiple golf course site we looked to design a variety of memorable courses. In a bold move, our firm fashioned the first links-style course to be built in Ontario with the Heathlands Course. The design team took an uninspiring gravel pit and farmland, on a compact 165-acre site in rural Caledon and turned them into as authentic a Scottish golf experience you’ll find this side of the pond.

The challenge we faced in 1991 was building a distinctive course, on a site devoid of trees in the middle of nowhere that golfers would be willing to travel an hour north of Toronto to play. That explains why we pushed the design envelope to create an outstanding routing situated between a road and a rail line, a feature that is seen quite often at courses in Scotland. Once again, we took our creativity to a new level designing tight undulating fairways surrounded by gnarly fescued mounds, dramatic pot bunkers in fairways along with green surrounds featuring hollows, feeder slopes and undulating green contours.