
Green Gables Course
Green Gables Golf Club
About this course
Green Gables Golf Club sits in Hunter River, Prince Edward Island, in the gently rolling farmland that inspired Lucy Maud Montgomery's famous novels. Stanley Thompson designed the original course in 1939 as part of a broader effort to develop golf tourism in Canada's national parks and historic sites. The course occupies land adjacent to the Green Gables Heritage Place, and Thompson routed holes through a landscape of red sandstone soil, mixed hardwood forests, and pastoral clearings characteristic of central PEI. Thompson's design makes use of the property's natural elevation changes and wooded corridors, creating a parkland layout that moves through stands of spruce and maple. The routing features several holes that play along ridgelines and others that descend into small valleys, with the architect's trademark bunkering style—large, flowing sand hazards with irregular edges—evident throughout. Thomas McBroom later undertook renovation work to update and restore elements of the course while preserving Thompson's original design intent. The course operates as part of Golf PEI, the provincial golf marketing organization, and serves both tourists visiting the Anne of Green Gables sites and local players. The setting remains relatively quiet and pastoral, with views across farmland and forest that evoke the island's agricultural heritage. Green Gables functions as one of several public-access courses on Prince Edward Island that combine golf with the region's literary and cultural tourism.
Quick facts
- Location
- Hunter River, Prince Edward Island, CA
- Access
- Public
- Year built
- 1939
- Designer(s)
- Stanley Thompson., Thomas McBroom
- Holes
- 18
- Par
- 72
- Length
- 6,857 yards
- Difficulty
- 74.2/137
Getting there
Green Gables Golf Club lies in the pastoral heart of Prince Edward Island, best accessed via Charlottetown Airport (YHG), a compact regional hub just twenty minutes east along the Trans-Canada Highway. The drive itself is quintessentially Island - gently rolling farmland stitched with red dirt roads, white clapboard churches, and the occasional glimpse of the Gulf of St. Lawrence shimmering in the distance. As you turn north toward Hunter River, the landscape softens into the storybook countryside that inspired Lucy Maud Montgomery, and the clubhouse emerges amid fields and woodlots like a quiet secret kept by the locals for generations.

FAQ
Common questions about Green Gables
Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Green Gables was designed by Stanley Thompson. and Thomas McBroom.
Yes. Green Gables is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.
Par at Green Gables is 72.
Green Gables plays 6,857 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at Green Gables is 137.
Green Gables is a 18-hole course.



