The Moonlight Basin ski facility in the resort village of Big Sky was consolidated into the Big Sky Resort in 2013, making it the nation’s largest ski centre with more than thirty ski lifts spread out over almost 6,000 acres of terrain.
The Reserve course is a Jack Nicklaus Signature layout which opened for private play in 2016 and it’s draped over a dramatic landscape sitting at 7,500 feet above sea level with an overall length of 8,000 yards from the tips.
No doubt about it, this is mountain golf on an epic scale in a secluded location with golfers experiencing massive changes in elevation as holes play out on across a heavily contoured landscape that often requires a significant hike from one green to the next tee.
Highlight holes include the par four 1st hole (with a massive drop from the tee to the fairway); the par five 6th (played downhill initially before rising up to the green); the par three 7th (featuring a pond-protected, multi-tiered green); and the 777-yard 17th, where yet another plummeting fairway makes a mockery of the mammoth yardage on this par five.
