Jasper Park Lodge Hole #8 "Tekarra's Cut" 427-yard Par4 Handicap 1
A brute of a hole, despite being bunkerless. The flag is invisible on any approach other than from a drive that finishes long and left down the fairway. Benching this fairway into the hillside was no mean feat and yet, once again, Thompson's end result looks both natural and is blessed with very good golfing qualities.
(Tee ball from #8 ... aim slice left of mountain, play dog leg perfectly)
The 8th is one of the toughest holes on the course, a neat dogleg right with the drive being directed towards a fairway with a pronounced right-to-left slope. The tee shot should be hit through a saddle straightaway from the tee, and if a fade is in your bag, playing it off the mound in the distance is perfect. Even after a good landing, the approach is uphill and blind to a bunkerless, though well defended green with its sharp drop-off to the left. It is easy enough to work out where the green is from the trees lining the fairway.
(8th Green with a nice treed backdrop)
Jasper Park Lodge:
Highly acclaimed for its challenging layout and spectacular beauty, the Jasper Park Lodge G.C. is rated by SCORE Golf Magazine as the #1 Best Golf Resort in Canada. It has also received the Gold Tee Award from Meetings and Incentive Magazine sever years in a row (suggest to your respective companies), and the Successful Meetings Magazine Pinnacle Award six years running.
Thing Along the Way - Maligne Lake:
Maligne Lake (pronounced "Ma-leen") is one of those standard postcard picture locations of the Rockies. It is hard to find a nature calendar without a picture of Maligne Lake with Spirit Island in the front. However, the road to Maligne Lake is a 48 km. dead end road that ends at the lakeshore. Although the views here are nice, I have seen many places in this area that are at least as picturesque. If you want to have the spectacular calendar views close to spirit island, you have to book a 1 1/2 hour boat trip to reach this point. There is no other way to reach this far end of the lake. If you are not planning to take this boattrip, you should ask yourself if you really think the roadtrip to Maligne Lake is worthwhile. Especially when you have little time of course.
(Despite its beauty, i doubt we have the time to spend to take the boat trip to where you need to be...next time)
Well, if a fade is what needs to be played on 8, I may as well just pick up and go to 9... Also, too bad we'll prolly have to skip this lake, it looks retarded (that means nice and pretty).
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