Sandia

The Pueblo of Sandia Tribe runs the golf operation at Sandia Golf Club as a sporting facility for guests of their Sandia Resort & Casino. Designed by Scott Miller of We-Ko-Pa Golf Club fame and opened for play in 2005, the Sandia course is set in rugged high desert territory with water hazards only ever in play at four of the holes.

In The American Golf Resort Guide, author Daniel Wexler has this to say about the course: “Though much of its 7,772- yard total is tempered by altitude, challenging holes abound, with the front nine featuring the 515-yard 4th (a downhill par four played to a waterside green), followed by a run of huge, barranca-driven holes.

The back nine heats up with the 655-yard drywash-flanked 11th before climaxing over a strong closing stretch led by the 457-yard pond-guarded 14th, the 472-yard arroyo-crossing 15th, the 208-yard 16th (all-carry to an elevated green) and the 505-yard 18th, another oversized par four playing to a green pinched tightly by sand and water.”