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WELCOME TO KOKANEE SPRINGS GOLF RESORT! Legendary golf awaits atKokanee Springs Resort Get away from it all. Far away. Leave theworld behind and find your sweet spot in Crawford Bay in thebeautiful West Kootenays. Kokanee Springs Golf Resort has beenserving up the perfect blend of rugged beauty and endless fairwayswith simple charm and warm, friendly service since 1968. Find outwhy so many are drawn back time and time again to this home awayfrom home. Get away, unplug, unwind with friends and enjoy thegame. It's just spectacular golf in a stunning, secluded setting.BRIEF HISTORY OF KOKANEE SPRINGS GOLF RESORT History of KokaneeSprings Golf Resort Kokanee Springs is considered a Norman Wood’smasterpiece. Carved from the wilderness and situated along the baseof the Purcell Mountain range, Kokanee Springs has long beenregarded as the flagship of golf courses in the Kootenays. Worldrenowned golf course architect Norman Woods had been commissionedto design the layout after a long apprenticeship under StanleyThompson. (Thompson designed the Banff Springs and Jasper ParkLodge Courses in the Canadian Rockies). With more than 300 golfcourses to his credit, Woods considered Kokanee Springs as hisgreatest challenge. “The entire area looked as though it wasnothing but bush, water and rocks”, Woods said at the time, “with atowering mountain running into it, my choices were certainlyrestricted. I was sure the mountain was not going to move, so itwas up to me to fit the course in around it”. Serene Nature atKokanee Springs Resort Woods had moved on site and was living inthe historic Murray Cabin near #7 to oversee the construction. Someof his enhancements included the hundreds of feet of rock wallsalong the tiered tee decks, log trestles and bridges to routetraffic and stone wishing wells. The pond at #14 was created, fedby a small streams; this pond is a beautiful hazard as well as apractical reservoir for the irrigation system. The smaller ponds on#9 and #18 were also built under Woods’ watchful eye. In fact, hedesigned the 120-acre course to take full advantage of its scenicbeauty and to challenge the golfers who now play upwards of 20,000rounds per year. Sixty-four bunkers, twelve water hazards and124,000 square feet of elevated, multileveled greens and 90,000square feet of terraced tee surface were all a part of his plan. Asif the hazards Woods created weren’t enough of a challenge, KokaneeSprings is a big golf course. A well played round can take you 6.5miles. The yardages are 6604 from the blue markers, 6260 from thewhites and 5747 from the reds, on this par 71 course.