Whistler, BC - Whistler Golf Club is getting a $10-million renovation that will force closure of the course for the entire 2026 season.
“We’re 41 years old now and have obviously done some work over the years, but anything past 25 or 30 years infrastructure-wise starts to get a little aged,” said longtime general manager Alan Kristmanson.
“We are trying to be a world-class golf resort, so we have to keep reinvesting and that is what we are going to do.” It will be business as usual at the Arnold Palmer-designed layout for most of next season, but the course will close a little over a month earlier than normal at the end of August to allow some work to be done before the snow falls.
It will remain closed for all of the 2026 season and then re-open early in the summer of 2027.
“The biggest challenge is six months of the year we have got three feet of snow out there, so to do anything significant you do have to close to take advantage of the growing season,” Kristmanson said.
The renovation will include re-doing and re-positioning bunkers and expanding tee complexes. The short par 4 fourth hole will be redesigned, as will the par 3 8th and par 4 18th holes.
“We have three or four fairways that are actually original fairways from 41 years ago, so those will all be re-done as well,” Kristmanson said. The renovation will be led by Thad Layton, a former architect with the now-shuttered Arnold Palmer Design Company who now runs his own design firm.
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