Morgan Creek Golf Course, Home To Great Conditions & Great Alumni
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2026-10-09
(Part 4 of 4 of Surrey, B.C. Courses)
By Gord Montgomery, Senior Writer, Inside Golf
To a camel, Hump Day has to be the best day of the week. But for golfers in Surrey, B.C., any day of the week is the best because golf here in the Lower Mainland is that good.
When professional golfers speak, the general golfing population listens. So take heed of what the guys from the PGA TOUR Americas had to say about Morgan Creek Golf Course.
While not quoting those players directly, a second-hand review from the course’s director of golf, Tom Doull, will suffice. After all, he heard all the kudos this track received after hosting a Tour Americas competition. “The players loved it and asked if they could come back to play it again,” Doull proudly proclaimed.
Morgan Creek is, and has been, so good for so many years that there’s been no real need to upgrade any of the playing surfaces, Doull said. “We hosted the Fortnet Cup Championship, the PGA TOUR Americas’ final event [in 2025], and we learned a lot,” regarding how professionals and some amateurs look at things down the fairway. “We continue to do a lot of tree limbing for sight lines. Their agronomist came up and said, ‘Listen. Players need to see on the tee box if there’s a bunker. They can’t be blocked by trees. Don’t take the tree out. Just limb it.’”
Even though they are a well-known entity in a busy golf market, hosting a PGA-based event doesn’t hurt the club’s reputation, and how many people want to challenge it, Doull agreed. “For sure,” he said before noting an important factor. “Our capacity is our capacity, right? The demand is there. It didn’t hurt us. We hosted from a marketing standpoint. We knew it was going to cost us money,” from lost green fee revenue. “You’d be surprised at how many people in Metro Vancouver are unaware of what’s south of the Fraser River. They know downtown Vancouver... It opened up exposure. It was the highest attended PGA TOUR Americas event with over 8,000 people.”
(Photo By Gord Montgomery)
As to the characteristics of the course, Doull had this to say: “We’re 31 years old now on this Thomas McBroom design. We’re just under 7,000 yards from the tips, but a reminder: We are at sea level. Very challenging but fair. What you see is what you get. Not too many blind tee shots, which is great. Conditions are second to none. Public-wise, nobody touches us for conditions. We might grow our rough a little longer than other courses. One of the things we’ve done, and because of the tournament, is add a first-cut of rough. It really frames the holes nicely. The greens in the summer run 11, 11-and-a-half. Our greens are large and fairly fair. A lot of forced carries with water on 14 of the 18 holes. Not necessarily that you’re carrying over it, but they’re adjacent to the green or the tee box,” adding that the pace of play is usually under 4:30.
Morgan Creek has all the warm-up amenities one’s looking for, with a large putting green and talk of adding another, as well as a driving range that runs over 300 yards in length. There is also an academy on site, along with an indoor putting clinic, which Nick Taylor has used to sharpen his skills, as well as a fitting studio and an indoor hitting area that opens up so ball flights can be tracked to their completion.
If you look at a couple of the players that have called Morgan Creek Golf Course home, you can see how good things are here. After all, both Adam Hadwin and Adam Svensson call this layout home, as well as rising star on the women’s side, Lauren Kim.
At Morgan Creek, like many other courses, they use dynamic pricing, with fees generally running around $150 at peak hours, but those do go down as the sun begins to make its descent. The thing is, in this writer’s opinion, this is a course you have to play at least once because it is a special place in a very crowded golf market.