Cedar Hill Golf Club

1400 Derby Rd.
Victoria, B.C.
pro shop (250) 475-7151
clubhouse admin. (250) 475-7150
travel time from downtown Victoria - 10 minutes

Head Professional: Craig Rencher
Associate Professionals: Jamie Murphy/ Neil Murray

B.C. Golf Association

Like your favourite pair of slippers, Cedar Hill Golf Club feels right the first time you play it. Don't let the short yardage fool you. Play a bit too complacently and this course will come back to bite you. The course is one of the best-kept, affordable, golfable, public courses you will find anywhere. The greens are especially true and fair. The golf course also serves as a community meeting place. A large walking 'chip trail' circles the course with walkers taking full advantage of the surrounding beauty.The course in many ways symbolize the true nature of the game. The clubhouse is the focal point of more than just the golfing faithful, mothers passing by with toddlers in prams out for a day's stroll, dog walkers, power walking striders, out for-no-reason-at-all-ers or just casual walkers; it's a place to meet.

Originally a dairy farm purchased by the municipality of Saanich in 1920 it was turned into the first fully public nine hole golf course on Vancouver Island. It later was expanded to the full 18 holes in the 1950's. Cedar Hill is one of the busiest golf courses in Canada with well over 80,000 rounds played every year. Only the odd west coast snowstorm deters the ardent Cedar Hill player. You will find days when even the resident feathered fowl take cover during a classic westcost water-dripping-off-your-nose squall, the faithful Cedar Hiller marches to his own beat -- splash, splash, splash, hit, splash, splash,splash....hit. Welcome to the West Coast!

Because Cedar Hill is a fully public course, and the great demand for play almost all year round. The policy for casual players is they must present themselves at the starters tee window, play the green fee and perhaps wait sometime before teeing off. A good piece of advice... so you can plan your day, call the pro shop, ask if there's a wait to play. Most times, the waits are short and your patience will be rewarded.

One aspect that makes this place special it still allows young players time on the course. As long as a junior green fee is paid, and the youngster can play good shots to move along reasonably over about 5,000 yds., then welcome aboard. Too often young golfers are shuffled into the background at courses, leaving only the best time for older members.

A newly designed short-game practice facility opened in 2003. Special lesson packages are available, paying special attention to that always-needed short game or shoot over a bunker, play out of a bunker or learn that sweat touch chip.

A great idea is to meet for lunch or a-pint-after in the 90-seat restaurant. Breathe in a bit more slowly, take your shoes off and put a big damn smile on your face and enjoy of the course and distant Olympic Mountains (yes that's snow up there). As a meeting place, the clubhouse offers a variety of rooms for birthdays, retirement parties, funeral receptions, weddings, bar mitzvah or anniversaries. Full catering services for any occasion can accommodate up to 140 people.

The fully stocked pro shop offers product lines: Titleist, Callaway, Nancy Lopez, Jazz, Cobra, Ping, Foot Joy, Adidas, Etonic.

Booking Policy: call the pro shop at (250) 475-7151 to arrange a tee time
Cedar Hill Golf Club web site