Heritage Pointe Golf Membership will function co-host of the distinguished nationwide championship
CALGARY, Alta. – Golf Canada is worked up to announce that the enjoying of the 121st Canadian Males’s Novice Championship, introduced by BDO shall be held on the Mickelson Nationwide Golf Membership and Heritage Pointe Golf Membership in Calgary, Alta. July 27 – 30, 2026.
The Canadian Males’s Novice Championship returns to Alberta for the primary time since 2008, the place the nation’s finest novice expertise competed at Paradise Canyon Golf Resort in Lethbridge, Alta. for the enjoying of the 104th Canadian Males’s Novice Championship.
“Golf Canada is extraordinarily proud to carry certainly one of our nation’s most prestigious novice occasions at Mickelson Nationwide Golf Membership and Heritage Pointe Golf Membership,” stated Mary Beth McKenna, Director, Novice Championships and Guidelines, Golf Canada. “We’re thrilled to have the ability to work with Mickelson Nationwide and Heritage Pointe’s hospitable workers and volunteers forward of and throughout the event and might’t wait to see among the finest novice expertise on the earth compete subsequent 12 months in Calgary,” she added.
Mickelson Nationwide Golf Membership will host play throughout all 4 rounds of the nationwide championship. Mickelson Nationwide has quickly grow to be a preferred area for leisure {and professional} golfers since opening its doorways in 2020, having already hosted Canada’s elite rivals on the 102nd enjoying of the PGA Championship of Canada in 2024. Hailing its title and design from six-time Main winner Phil Mickelson, the course includes a 25,000 sq. foot clubhouse in addition to Canada’s largest 18-hole placing course, often known as The Crater.
The property boasts a uncooked, pure aesthetic, nestling its operations between prairie vistas, rolling hills and snow-capped mountains to precisely seize the course’s id in western Canada. Oscillated elevations – together with a 90-foot drop between the tee field and the inexperienced on the par-4 sixteenth – makes the course a championship-level take a look at and forces gamers to get artistic with their shot making decisions.
Heritage Pointe Golf Membership will function the co-host venue to assist accommodate for the event’s bigger discipline and can host play for the opening two rounds of the championship. Heritage Pointe has beforehand hosted a wide selection {of professional} and novice occasions since opening in 1992.
The competitors shall be held on the Desert and Heritage programs, continuously ranked as certainly one of SCOREGolf’s Prime 59 Public Programs in Canada. The Desert Course, a standard hyperlinks type course with ample size and problem, weaves forwards and backwards throughout the plateau overlooking the Bow River, Calgary and the Rocky Mountains past. Gamers will then make the dramatic drop all the way down to the Pine Creek Valley ground for the Heritage Course, a parkland type course famend for its peaceable environment and difficult inexperienced websites. Each spherical culminates on the well-known 18th gap, a threat reward par 5, full with a full island inexperienced.
From windswept fescue to dramatic elevation adjustments and luxurious parkland, Heritage Pointe rewards a mixture of energy and precision and shall be a wonderful take a look at for the rivals of the 121st Canadian Novice Championship.
“Windmill Golf Group is honoured to host the 121st Canadian Males’s Novice Championship at Mickelson Nationwide Golf Membership and Heritage Pointe Golf Membership.,” stated Barry Ehlert, CEO, Windmill Golf Group. “This prestigious occasion showcases among the most interesting novice golfers from world wide, and we’re excited to welcome them to our amenities subsequent summer season for an distinctive week of championship golf.”
The Canadian Males’s Novice Championship is the third oldest novice championship on the earth, having debuted on the Ottawa Golf Membership – modernly often known as The Royal Ottawa Golf Membership – in 1895. Initially contested as a match play competitors, Canadian Golf Corridor of Famer George S. Lyon gained the Novice eight occasions between 1898 and 1914 whereas fellow Canadian Golf Corridor of Famer Sandy Somerville captured six championships between 1924 and 1938.
The 1969 championship marked the occasion’s preliminary shift to stroke play and was held underneath that format till 1994 when it reverted to match play in honour of the Royal Canadian Golf Affiliation and the championship’s centennial in 1995. In 2010, the event adopted to a double-field format to account for bigger discipline sizes and held its final match play competitors in 2007, the place five-time PGA TOUR winner Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C. claimed the title at Riverside Nation Membership in Saskatoon, Sask.
Different Canadians presently enjoying on the PGA TOUR have secured victories on the prestigious championship as effectively, together with Mackenzie Hughes of Hamilton, Ont. successful back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012. Declan O’Donovan of Sydney, Australia claimed the one hundred and twentieth enjoying of the Canadian Males’s Novice Championship at The Royal Ottawa Golf Membership in July, turning into the primary Australian to perform the feat in 32 years.
