Glen Mar

Ashton is a small rural community in Lanark County, southwest of Ottawa, where the landscape opens into gently rolling farmland threaded by the Mississippi River watershed. It's quiet Ontario countryside — the kind of place where golf fits naturally into the seasonal rhythm of the region, and where courses tend to draw a loyal local following rather than destination traffic.

Glen Mar is a community-rooted layout that reflects the character of its surroundings: unhurried, accessible, and shaped by the land rather than engineered against it. Courses of this type in rural Ontario typically lean on natural contour and tree cover for their interest rather than artificial bunkering or forced carries, and the experience tends to reward players who think their way around rather than overpower it.

For golfers based in the Ottawa Valley, Glen Mar offers the kind of round that's easy to return to — low on pretension, close to home, and honest in what it asks. The area's short but reliable summer season means the course sees focused, community-driven play from May through October.