Casino Rama makes a natural golf base: a large resort on Lake Couchiching near Orillia, ringed by the courses of Ontario's cottage country, with a big gaming floor and an entertainment centre for the evenings.
Rama runs a genuinely large floor — a full spread of table games, a poker room and a big bank of slots, busy at weekends and long the anchor of cottage-country gaming. It is the scale you want to come back to after a day on the course.
The hotel holds around 290 comfortable, resort-standard rooms a short indoor walk from the gaming — easy for a group of golfers to check in, play, catch a show and sleep without moving the car.
There are ten-plus restaurants and lounges plus a well-known entertainment centre, and the golf is the nearby draw: the Orillia and Muskoka-edge courses are a short drive through the lakes.
Rama sits near Orillia, about ninety minutes north of Toronto — far enough for a proper getaway, close enough for a Friday run. Good value midweek and out of the summer peak, when tee times and rooms are easiest.