Heritage Eagle Bend Golf Club in Aurora, Colo., an Arthur Hills-designed layout, rolls through hilly terrain with elevation changes, 62 strategically placed bunkers, lakes, streams and rugged native areas. The fairways are wide and forgiving, but you are going to be challenged with a variety of tricky lies, and if you find the bluegrass rough, that presents another problem.
We looked at your ratings and reviews from 2016 in Kentucky. The top 20 courses feature a mix of state park, metro Louisville and golf resorts. View the full list here.
Kentucky knows hoops and horse racing, but don't forget the golf scene, particularly in the city of Louisville and the surrounding area. From Jack Nicklaus' Valhalla to Fuzzy Zoeller's Covered Bridge to Heritage Hill -- the Bluegrass state has plenty of great golf.
You can still see cannons on the ridge at Cannon Ridge Golf Club, but now the battles are a little safer as golfers try to defeat this layout. Opened in 2003, it is a 7,100-yard par 71. Today's battles are waged with drivers and putters on L-93 bentgrass, which covers the greens, tee boxes and fairways, and tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass in the roughs.
The former Ballymeade C.C. in Falmouth, Mass. will reopen this summer as The Cape Club by Troon after extensive changes to the golf course, clubhouse and more.
From the gypsum granules of White Sands National Monument to the Gila Wilderness, southern New Mexico offers a variety of climates and ecosystems, which provides the palette for an array of outdoor sports, including golf.
Stonewall Golf Club in Gainesville, Va. may be public, but it lives like a private club from the well-manicured course to the 13,000-square-foot clubhouse with its coffered ceilings and massive stone fireplace. Set against a backdrop of the Bull Run Mountains and Lake Manassas, this scenic Tom Jackson design is blessed by gently rolling hills and plenty of tall trees.
Do your best to avoid the desert wildlife and Sonoma Ranch Golf Club stays pretty simple: Straightforward holes, featuring lush, green fairways with a nice mix of challenging holes and opportunities to score. The backdrop of the Organ Mountains provides an exotic flavor. You can easily spend twice as much on daily-fee, desert golf in Arizona, but this New Mexico layout offers many of the same attractions, Mike Bailey writes.
Many folks believe the Blue at Eisenhower Golf Course is the best golf course in the Department of Defense. The Robert Trent Jones design, one of two courses at the Air Force Academy, plays 7,301 from the back tees. The Silver at Eisenhower Golf Course, while shorter, is no slouch thanks to its slick greens and uneven lies, David R. Holland writes from Colorado.
This summer, Sage Run will open as a wonderful complimentary course to Island Resort & Casino's Sweetgrass Golf Club. Here's why you should be excited.
Just outside Pittsburgh, in Midway, Pennsylvania, you'll find Quicksilver Golf Club, one of the best public courses in the state and former site of a Champions Tour event.
Gambling is a big draw in the Quad Cities these days. But with golf clubs like Glynns Creek Golf Course in Long Grove, Iowa - which hosts the annual Quad City Open - golfers know the "Quad Cities" are on an upswing, Kiel Christianson writes.
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