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Storey
Creek Golf Club
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Storey Creek Golf Course, situated 14 kms south of Campbell River, is widely publicized as "a course in nature". One trip through the challenging eighteen holes will leave you clearly understanding how this double edged descriptor was coined.
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The course, designed by Les Furber, offers a choice of four tee boxes depending on your level of play. Each fairway is enclosed in forest giving a sense of solitude and
tranquility. In fact, oftentimes, one feels like he is playing on his own private course, rarely catching glimpses of other foursomes. Of the eighteen holes there are five par 3, five par 5 and eight par 4, a little different than the traditional make-up of a par 72 course.
Carved out of dense coniferous and deciduous forest with creeks meandering alongside and dissecting fairways, Storey Creek flourishes as a sanctuary for many species of flora and fauna.
Throughout the year while watching your shots soar, you will see multitudes of deer grazing or lazing on any given hole. Scores of scurrying squirrels with their broods, woodpeckers tapping the rhythm and tempo for your tee shot, and eagles soaring and swooping will more than delight you when the course scorns you.
Storey Creek is home to not only indigenous wildlife. A remarkable Salmon Enhancement project has been initiated and maintained by Greens Superintendent, Reg Franklin and staff Starting in the man-made pond along the fourteenth fairway and fed by natural run-off, 5,000 - 10,000 salmon fry are introduced each year to mature and then make their journey to the ocean through the labyrinth of creeks, brooks and streams that are an integral part of the challenge that Storey Creek presents.
In the early spring splashes of yellow greet you around each corner; nestled along the treeline, high atop rotting stumps or dotted around the base of trees. The symbol of the opening of a new golf season the golden daffodil. As each season unfolds new flora abounds, naked trees become fully dressed, ferns cover the forest floors, huckleberry bushes provide sustenance for the residents (and golfers) and ponds and creeks sprout stately bulrushes.
With the mandate to keep the course as close to its natural state as possible, the Storey Creek Golf and Recreation Society, administered by a Board of Directors elected by its membership, has brought the course through its infancy to a steadily maturing and much sought after test of one's golf skill while enjoying "a Course in Nature".
Storey Creek is proud to have hosted the 1999 BCGA Men's Amateur, the 2002 BCPGA Pro Assistant, the
2003 BCGA Mid Amateur and the 2004 B.C. Secondary School's "AAA" Golf Championship.
It has consistently earned the prestigious Golf Digest Places to Play Award, most recently given a Four Star Rating and has been listed in Score Magazine's Top 100 Golf Courses in Canada.
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