Country Club at Castle Pines

“Tremendously scenic,” wrote Daniel Wexler in The American Private Golf Club Guide, “it begins atop a high ridge (the 2nd sits astride the abyss) before descending rapidly via the 667-yard 5th, where six trees (!) divide the driving zone.

Virtually all the rest of the course remains on the low ground, highlighted by three offbeat, bunker-free holes; the 11th (played over a diagonal creekbed to a narrow green), the 15th (whose green is perched above a pronounced left-side swale) and the 17th which features a shallow, heavily contoured putting surface with a steep fallaway in front.

In order to return to the clubhouse, both the 9th and 18th run significantly uphill and thus rate among the layout’s weaker links – though the cart ride back to the top of the ridge is an epic.”

In November 2019, members approved a $17 million improvement plan, which includes the club’s first swimming pool and tennis courts, but the course won’t be changing, as the greens and bunkers have recently been redone.