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The Creek Course

The Creek Golf Club

Grimshaw, Alberta, CA
9 holesPar 363,367 yds

About this course

The Creek Golf Club is located in Grimshaw, a small town in northwestern Alberta's Peace River Country, approximately 500 kilometers northwest of Edmonton. Designed by Kelly Bunn, a Canadian golf course architect based in Alberta, the course reflects the regional landscape character of the Peace River region, an area known for its agricultural lands and forested creek valleys that cut through the relatively flat prairie terrain. The course routing likely takes advantage of natural creek corridors and elevation changes characteristic of this part of Alberta, where watercourses create the most dramatic topographical features in an otherwise gently rolling landscape. Bunn's design work in western Canada typically emphasizes playability for a range of skill levels while incorporating natural site features into the strategic design. The Peace River region's northern latitude means the course benefits from extended summer daylight hours, though the playing season is shorter than in southern Alberta. The Creek serves the local golfing community in Grimshaw and the surrounding Peace River region, an area where agriculture and resource industries form the economic base. The club provides recreational golf in a part of Alberta where courses are less densely distributed than in the province's urban centers, making it a regional destination for golfers in the Peace Country.

Quick facts

Location
Grimshaw, Alberta, CA
Access
Public
Year built
1987
Designer
Kelly Bunn
Holes
9
Par
36
Length
3,367 yards

Getting there

The Creek Golf Club sits in the remote boreal landscape of northern Alberta, most readily accessed via Edmonton International Airport (YEG), roughly 450 kilometers southwest, followed by a three-and-a-half-hour drive north through gradually thinning forest and open prairie toward the small community of Grimshaw. Private aviation offers a more intimate arrival at one of the regional airstrips serving the Peace River Country, dramatically shortening the final approach through a landscape of spruce, muskeg, and wide northern sky. The drive itself becomes a gradual immersion into Alberta's frontier character - the highway gradually narrowing, civilization receding, until the club emerges from the wilderness as an oasis of manicured fairways and clubhouse warmth against the vast, quiet expanse of the north.

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Common questions about The Creek

Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.

The Creek was designed by Kelly Bunn.

Yes. The Creek is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.

Par at The Creek is 36.

The Creek plays 3,367 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.

The Creek is a 9-hole course.

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