The Champions at Salmon Arm Golf Club

The Champions course at Salmon Arm Golf Club is a Les Furber design that opened in the interior of British Columbia, where the town of Salmon Arm sits at the southern end of Shuswap Lake. The region is characterized by rolling terrain, forested hillsides, and the distinctive dry climate of the Okanagan-Shuswap area. Furber, a prominent Canadian golf architect who designed numerous courses across British Columbia and Alberta from the 1980s onward, typically worked with natural land movement and integrated his routings into existing topography rather than imposing dramatic earthwork.

The Champions layout reflects this approach, moving through varied elevation changes and incorporating views of the surrounding mountains and lake country. The course uses the natural contours to create strategic interest, with holes that play uphill, downhill, and across slopes. Furber's designs from this era often featured generous fairway corridors balanced by well-placed bunkering and greens that rewarded accurate approach play.

Salmon Arm Golf Club serves the local community and visiting golfers exploring the Shuswap region, an area known for its summer recreation and milder interior climate compared to coastal British Columbia. The club operates in a region where golf is seasonal, with the course typically open from spring through fall. The Champions course represents the type of resort-accessible daily-fee golf that developed across interior British Columbia during the expansion of the sport in Canada during the late twentieth century.