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Golf Colorado

Golfing in Colorado? You bet! The mountains provide a breathtaking background scenery and some impressive challenges that a designer can really sink his teeth into. Just about everywhere in the United States where you’ll find people, you’ll find golf courses, but Colorado benefits from the popularity of the Rockies as a skiing destination as well, and we all reap the benefits.

Breckenridge enjoys the 18-hole Nicklaus-designed public Breckenridge Golf Club which was built in 1985. This one location alone offers 3 USGA courses and a shorter 5066 yard no-slope non-USGA 72 par course. Aspen has two courses: The public Aspen Golf Course designed by Frank Hummel and developed in 1970, which also has 3 USGA courses, and the private Maroon Creek Golf Course, a Tom Fazio design built in 1995 with four USGA choices. Note that both of these are small towns nestled high in the Rockies.

Now we come to Colorado Springs and it’s TWENTY courses, including 3 designated as Military and 3 which are resorts. Even the public Regulation Nine offers 3 USGA choices in its 9 holes. 2004 graced Falcon Colorado, which is just 6 miles north of Colorado Springs, with the Antler Creek Golf Course, a Rick Phelps design offering 18 year-round holes. Needless to say, Colorado Springs is an avid golfing community.

Durango, Colorado enjoys 2 semi-private courses and a public resort. The Dalton Ranch & Golf Club is an 18-hole Ken Dye design opened in 1993 which offers up four USGA choices. The Hillcrest Golf Club, designed by Frank Hummel and put into operation in 1971, has 4 USGA rated choices. The Sheraton Tamarron supports the picture-perfect Cliffs, an Arthur Hills design build in 1975 which has been designated one of the top 100 courses in the entire world, top 50 in the United States! This masterpiece golf course sits 8 miles east from Purgatory (Durango) Ski Resort and 18 miles west of the town of Durango. The resort offers an indoor/outdoor pool, health spa, sauna, Jacuzzi, and most every other amenity you could want. Sitting amidst such a beautiful natural setting, its splendor is reason enough to play there.

Denver has 18 more choices to add to the frey... and we haven’t even gotten west of the Continental Divide! Pueblo offers up another 4, 3 of which are public courses (including another Arthur Hill design from 1991 which is open year-round). The Army Corp of Engineers even designed one of them, back in 1932! But the private Pueblo Country Club goes even further back, having been designed by Henry Hughes and build in 1902!

As you can see, Colorado is no newcomer to the game of golf, nor is it new to recreation. Courses and resorts in places like Vail (public 1968 Ben Krueger design) and Aspen know how to pamper those guests who want it, and how to make one feel at home if a bit less pretense is what you had in mind. The benefits of a ski resort are many, and they’re all available to golfers at some of the finest courses in the nation. The air is crisp and cool all summer long in the mountains, and the vistas delightful. Put Colorado on your list of summer golf vacation destinations. If you ski, you’ll already be at home. If you don’t, you’re about to discover a new place to call home, in Colorado.