“The Hartford Links Locator” is a program that will enable golfers to read descriptive details and view photos of ALL golf courses in the Canadian provinces of Prince Edward Island and British Columbia and many of the best (highest-rated) golf courses in Ireland and in the other provinces of Canada and the United States of America and other places in the world. Data acquisition and input is ongoing but the program structure is finished. Before making it available for download we want to include more courses, accommodations and graphics (photos and scorecards).

Currently, our database includes over 400 courses in 30 territorial “zones”; but more zones will be added as additional data is accumulated.  For this introduction, I’ve shown below only a very few of the courses in our database - the selection being those I consider to be the “best" in 3 (only) of the 30 zones.

 

Zone A – Vancouver Island: 46 courses – the “best” ones in this zone are on a 150-mile stretch from a mid-northeast area of the Island to the southwest tip. I deem the top 3 of these to be “exceptional”.

Best Island Courses

 

Zone B1  – Greater Vancouver: 44 courses situated less than 45 minutes’ drive of Vancouver city center. Of the 11 that I deem “exceptional”, 4 are private courses - open only to their members and guests.

Best Vancouver Courses

 

Zone B3  – N/W coastal Washington:     36 courses situated north of Tacoma and within 30 miles of the Pacific Ocean. The “best” courses are relatively close to Seattle (most being on a 100 mile stretch between Tacoma and Mount Vernon).  I deem the top 12 to be “exceptional”. 4 of these are private courses - open only to their members and guests.

Best Northwest Washington Courses

Here is a screen shot of ONLY THE FIRST PAGE of a “summary” that lists all courses we currently have in the dbase.

List All

 

The above “list view” (i.e. the summary) does give a little information but that isn’t the meat of the program. When running the program, if one left mouse clicks on a course name, the display changes to a “form view” that will show much more information. For example, here’s what one would see after clicking on the row for Bear Mountain Golf and Country Club.

The program's “form view” will have a few “hotlinks”. A mouse click on a scorecard or fairway icon would open the scorecard or photo of a designated hole. A mouse click on a web-link icon would provide access to the appropriate website using the default Internet browser. A mouse click on the envelope icon would initiate a new message in the default email application.

Detailed Form View

Program development and beta testing continues – as does the pursuit of more data on courses and accommodations. Reports of our progress will be posted on this website.