Dixon Entrance Golf Club

Masset sits at the northern tip of Haida Gwaii, the remote archipelago off British Columbia's northwest coast that was long known as the Queen Charlotte Islands. This is one of the most geographically isolated places in Canada — a landscape of old-growth Sitka spruce, wide tidal flats, and skies that shift constantly between mist and broken light. The club takes its name from Dixon Entrance, the strait separating Haida Gwaii from Alaska, which tells you something about the frontier character of golf out here.

A par 65 means the layout leans heavily on shorter holes, and on a course at this latitude and in this wind, that is no handicap to interest. Ocean air and unpredictable Pacific weather can make even a modest yardage play in ways that demand real shot-making.

Getting here requires genuine effort — a ferry or small plane from Prince Rupert — which gives a round at Dixon Entrance a quality that no ranking can capture: you are playing golf somewhere most golfers will never go.