Golf

A local committee was searching for a place to create a new greenspace. They almost chose the farmland that is now Williamson Lake. Columbia Park was a popular picnic spot!

The original grounds held fairs alongside the race track.

The Revelstoke Turf Association formed around the horse racing scene, creating grandstands, stables, and outbuildings where the clubhouse is currently located.

The Revelstoke Golf Club clubhouse was built in 1912 as an Agricultural Hall for the Fall Fairs, with a viewing tower for the horse races that were held as part of the fairs. The building’s most prominent feature is a cupola that extends above the roof. It served as the caller’s booth for horse races, where race officials shouted out the races as the pack rounded near what are now the 10th and 11th holes.

The First World War ended over a decade of racing, and in 1924, the golf craze came to Revelstoke in full force, and the building was converted into a clubhouse, which it remains today, right in the heart of what the pioneers of Revelstoke felt was the prettiest parkland around.

The first nine holes of the course were developed in 1924, where the horse track once was.

The new clubhouse kicked off two decades of golden-era golfing in Revelstoke, which played host to many B.C. Interior tournaments, and even hosted movie stars like Richard Arlen, who beat the course record in 1936 while in Revelstoke filming The Great Barrier.

BC Hydro and the City of Revelstoke completed a significant land exchange and constructed a 610-metre dyke along the Revelstoke Golf Course. This agreement protected the course and permitted a Revelstoke Golf Club land swap which eventually allowed them to expland the course.

Under the guidance of golf course architect Norman Woods, the Revelstoke Golf Club began its transformation into a 6,537-yard, par 72 championship-layout, 18-hole course in 1974.

The official opening took place on June 12, 1976, with Mayor Sid Parker cutting the ribbon. They relocated a 1912 marker from the Mount Revelstoke Auto Road Post.

The clubhouse restaurant and bar got an interior refresh.