Victoria Golf Club Recognized by Pacific Northwest Golfer Magazine

Par-4 7th selected as one of the ‘Great Holes of the Northwest’

In the March 2026 issue of Pacific Northwest Golfer magazine, the par-4 7th hole at Victoria (B.C.) Golf Club is recognized as one of the “Great Holes of the Northwest,” one of just four holes selected each year by the Northwest’s largest and longest-running golf publication.

Running alongside spectacular Oak Bay and the Strait of Juan de Fuca, this short downhill par 4 is risk-reward at its finest. The fairway narrows the further down you go, to club selection off the tee will make it necessary to visualize playing the hole “backwards” – what do you want to be hitting for your second shot, and is it worth the risk. All that’s needed for the second shot is a short iron to the large, bunker-less, tumbling green hard by the rocky shore.

Opened in 1893, Victoria Golf Club is the oldest golf club west of the Mississippi River, and the second oldest club in North America. It gave birth and inspiration to numerous other clubs of that era, and is one of the six founding clubs of the Pacific Northwest Golf Association. The historic club is home to numerous Pacific Northwest Golf Hall of Famers, including Violet Pooley Sweeny, A.V. Macan, Alison Murdoch, Margaret Todd, and this year’s inductee Craig Doell.

Victoria’s clubhouse is listed in the Canadian Register of Historic Places. The club continues to host the annual Victoria GC vs. Seattle Golf Club interclub match, a home-and-home match that is the oldest international golf tournament in North America. On April 27-29, 2026, it will host the 19th PNGA Lamey Cup, a Ryder Cup-style competition that features some of the most notable amateur golfers in the region with 10-member teams representing the regional golf associations that make up the Pacific Northwest Golf Association. Victoria hosted this event previously in 2007.

Since 1994, Pacific Northwest Golfer magazine has been the voice of golf in the Northwest. It is the only Northwest golf publication with a verifiable demographic of its readership. It is the official magazine of the British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Alaska and Pacific Northwest golf associations, as well as the Pacific Northwest Section PGA. Published by the Pacific Northwest Golf Association, a 501c3 charitable international amateur golf association, Pacific Northwest Golfer is a member benefit delivered to Golf Canada members in British Columbia and to those who utilize the USGA GHIN Handicap System through clubs of the PNGA’s member associations in the U.S., either public or private.

(Photo by Mike Centioli)