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For Canadian Golfers · New for Winter 2026–27

Tenerife is closer
than you think. And nobody knows it like we do.

Air Canada now flies direct from Toronto (YYZ) and Montréal (YUL) to Tenerife South. October to April. Eight courses, a live volcano, and winter sunshine — while Canada is frozen solid. This is golf travel like nothing you've played before.

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Departure

Toronto YYZ · Montréal YUL

Destination

Tenerife South

Airline

Air Canada

Season

Oct – Apr

Stops

Non-stop

Available from

Winter 2026

The Numbers Don't Lie

While Toronto freezes,
you're playing golf.

Tenerife sits at 28° latitude — closer to the equator than anywhere in mainland Europe. In the depths of a Canadian winter, Tenerife's south coast rarely drops below 20°C. Courses stay green, tee times stay open, and the Atlantic stays blue.

Toronto, Ontario

−8°

Average January temperature

Stay home. Shovel the driveway.

Tenerife, Canary Islands

23°

Average January temperature

Tee off at 8am. Lunch by the Atlantic.

Why Tenerife

This isn't Florida.
It's something else entirely.

01

Eight courses.
One island.

Seven 18-hole courses on Tenerife, plus one more a short ferry ride away on La Gomera — from the dramatic clifftop fairways of Abama to the Seve Ballesteros design at Buenavista del Norte. All within reach. All worth your time. You could play a different course every day for a week and not repeat yourself.

02

A live volcano.
On the horizon.

Mount Teide — Spain's highest peak and an active volcano — watches over every round you play in the south. Tenerife isn't just warm. It's dramatic, rugged, and unlike anywhere else you've played golf. The scenery stops you mid-swing.

03

Seven islands.
One trip.

Tenerife is one of seven Canary Islands. Add a Canary Island cruise to your trip and visit Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and beyond. Bring the whole family — the golfers play, everyone else explores. Nobody's waiting for anyone.

04

Direct from Toronto.
No connections.

Air Canada's new non-stop service from YYZ changes everything. No layovers in London or Madrid. Board in Toronto, land in Tenerife South. Step off the plane into 23° sunshine. Your first tee time can be the next morning.

05

Europe.
Not just warm weather.

Florida gives you warm weather. Tenerife gives you Europe — the food, the culture, the architecture, the local wine, the fishing villages that tourists never find. It's a proper travel experience, not just a golf resort with sunshine bolted on.

06

Built for you.
Not off a shelf.

No brochure packages. No group tours. Every trip is planned from scratch around your group — the courses you want to play, the stays that suit you, the family activities that keep everyone happy. You brief us once and we build the rest.

Bring Everyone

It's a long way to come
for just eighteen holes.

You're crossing an ocean. The golfers in your group will be more than happy — but so will everyone who doesn't play a single hole. That's the difference between a golf trip and a proper escape, and it's why our Canadian groups tend to stay two weeks rather than one.

While you play
Tee times booked around the group — the serious golfers out early, the social round later, nobody rushed.
For partners
Spa days, the island's best restaurants, boutique corners of the north most visitors never find.
For the kids
Siam Park, regularly voted the best waterpark in the world, twins with Loro Parque, ranked the best zoo. For smaller children, Aqualand and Jungle Park are the gentler pairing — and knowing which suits which age is exactly the sort of thing we are here for.
For the teenagers
Dune buggies up Teide for sunset, whale watching off the south coast, surfing on black volcanic sand. Phones go away.
For grandparents
Gentle pace, warm sea air, no long transfers. Everyone under one roof at the end of the day.
October – April

The flights run in winter
for a reason.

The Air Canada service runs exactly when Tenerife is at its best and Canada is at its worst. It isn't only about the golf.

Golf in shirtsleeves, in January
Courses in perfect condition, no frost delays, no waiting for spring. Tee off at 8am and be at lunch by the Atlantic.
The night sky over Teide
Teide National Park is one of the finest places in the world to look up. Guided stargazing runs year-round, and the winter skies are extraordinary.
Add a cruise and make it two weeks
Most Canary Islands cruises sail from and return to Santa Cruz, on Tenerife. Play golf for a week, walk onto a ship, see every island, and fly home from the one you started on. One flight, two holidays — which matters a great deal more when you have crossed an ocean to get here.

These are the mainstream lines — Marella, P&O, Costa. Not luxury, and we will tell you that up front. For a family, they are excellent value and a very easy way to see the archipelago. If you want genuine luxury at sea, we will have a different conversation.
The island to yourselves
Winter is quieter than the European summer rush. Better tee times, better tables, better service.

"I've played courses all over the world. But Tenerife has bitten me in a way nowhere else has. The island, the courses, the people, the food — the lure of it is something I can't fully explain. All I know is that it will be home one day. That's the honest reason I built this business."

— Lee Taylor, Founder · Tenerife Golf Escapes

The Courses

Played, reviewed,
recommended honestly.

These aren't descriptions pulled from a brochure. They're courses Lee has stood on, played, and formed a genuine opinion about. The ones marked "Played by Lee" come with first-hand knowledge you won't find anywhere else.

Abama Golf — save this one for last

Abama Golf

Save this one for last

Buenavista del Norte — Seve's finest

Buenavista del Norte

Seve Ballesteros design · North Tenerife

Amarilla Golf — coastal winds

Amarilla Golf

Coastal. Windy. Unforgettable.

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The Obvious Question

“Why not just
go to Florida?”

It is the first thing every Canadian golfer thinks, and it is a fair question. Florida is closer, it is familiar, and it works. We are not going to pretend otherwise. But there are two reasons our clients come back to Tenerife instead — and the first one is pure logistics.

One island. One base. Every course.
This is the argument that wins it. Tenerife is small — you unpack once and never move again. From a base around Golf del Sur or Costa Adeje, most courses are inside an hour. The furthest, Buenavista del Norte up in the north-west, is about seventy-five minutes. That is the longest drive on the island. So you can play a different course every morning for a week and sleep in the same bed every night. In Florida, seven courses means seven long drives, or changing hotels halfway through your holiday.
Florida is a golf trip. Tenerife is a holiday with golf in it.
In Florida you play golf, you eat, you go back to the resort. Here you play in the morning and take a cable car up a live volcano in the afternoon. There is no volcano in Orlando. There are no whales. There is no eight-hundred-year-old fishing village to have lunch in.
And you are in Europe
Different food, different language, volcanic-soil wines you cannot get anywhere else, and a restaurant scene that has nothing to do with a resort buffet. Florida is familiar. That is precisely its weakness.
The rest of the group actually wants to come
This is the part that decides it for most families. The non-golfers are not tolerating your golf trip — they have their own holiday running alongside it.
Good To Know

The questions Canadians
actually ask us.

How long is the flight?
7 hours 25 minutes from Toronto, non-stop. The return leg is a little under nine. Compare that with routing through Lisbon — which turns the same journey into thirteen hours and change.
Do I need a visa?
Canadian passport holders don't need a visa for short stays in Spain. Tenerife is Spanish territory, so the same rules apply. We'll confirm the current requirements when we plan your trip.
What's the time difference?
Tenerife runs five hours ahead of Toronto and Montréal. It is a gentler adjustment than most transatlantic trips, and you will be on island time by the first tee.
What currency, what language?
Euros, and Spanish — but English is spoken everywhere you'll golf, stay or eat. It's one of the easiest places in Europe to arrive cold.
Can I bring my clubs?
Yes — or don't. Club hire is easy to arrange at any of the courses, and we'll sort it before you land if you'd rather travel light.
When do the flights actually run?
Toronto starts on 25 October 2026, twice a week — Thursdays and Sundays, returning Mondays and Fridays. Montréal starts on 31 October 2026, once a week on Saturdays. It is a seasonal winter service, so the seats are genuinely limited.
When should we come?
The service runs through the winter, which is exactly when Tenerife is at its best and Canada is at its worst. December through March is the sweet spot.
The Obvious Question

Why not just
go to Florida?

It is the honest question, and it deserves an honest answer. Florida and Arizona are the reflex for a Canadian golfer in winter, and there is nothing wrong with either. But there are two things Tenerife does that they cannot.

You unpack once. That's it.
This is the part people do not expect. Tenerife is a small island, and every course on it is within reach of wherever you are staying. From the south, most are well under an hour. Buenavista del Norte — the Seve Ballesteros design on the far north-west coast, and the furthest course from anywhere — is about an hour and a quarter. That is the worst-case drive on the entire island.

Which means you can play a different course every day for a week and sleep in the same bed every night. No moving hotels. No repacking mid-trip. No three-hour transfer to a different resort. One villa, one base, seven courses. In Florida, that same week is a logistics exercise.
It's a holiday that happens to have golf in it
In Florida you play golf, eat at a restaurant you have eaten at before, and go back to the resort. Here you play in the morning and take a cable car up a live volcano in the afternoon. You eat in a village that has been serving the same food for eighty years. Your kids are at the best waterpark in the world. There are whales off the coast. You are in Spain, in Europe, somewhere genuinely foreign — and that is precisely the point.
And for the group who don't all play
Because the golfers can be back at the villa by four, the rest of the group never has to be dragged around after them. Everyone stays put. Everyone has their own week. You just eat together at the end of it.
Why Us

You're 4,000 miles away.
That's exactly why this matters.

Booking an unfamiliar island from across an ocean is where trips go wrong — the hotel that's “near the course” but forty minutes away, the tee time nobody confirmed, the restaurant that shuts on Mondays. We're not a booking site. We're one person who knows the island, planning it properly.

We've actually been there
Twenty-five years in travel, and a family home on the island for nearly twenty. Every course, hotel and restaurant we recommend, we've been to ourselves.
Built around your group
Nothing off a shelf. Tee times that suit how you actually play, and a plan for everyone who isn't playing.
One person, start to finish
You deal with me, not a call centre and not a chatbot. Before, during and after the trip.
How It Works

One conversation.
We handle the rest.

Step 01

Tell us what you're thinking

Who's coming, roughly when, how you play, and whether it's just the golfers or the whole family. No lengthy forms — a proper conversation with someone who knows the island.

Step 02

We shape the trip

Flights from Toronto or Montréal, where you stay, the courses, the tee times, transfers, what everyone else does while you play. We put the whole thing together — or slot into arrangements you've already made. Your call.

Step 03

You approve every detail

Nothing is booked until you're happy with it. You see the courses, the hotels, the timings and the costs before a single thing is confirmed.

Step 04

You land. We've got it.

Transfer waiting. Accommodation ready. First tee time confirmed. From the moment you land at Tenerife South, the only thing on your mind is which club to hit first.

Ready to escape
the Canadian winter?

The Air Canada direct service from Toronto opens up something genuinely new for Canadian golfers. Get in touch and we'll tell you exactly what's possible for your dates and your group.

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