If you're heading to Carlsbad Caverns or the chic galleries of Santa Fe, golf in New Mexico, once a word-of-mouth secret among avid golfers, is a secret no longer.
With 4 distinct destinations for golfing in the Land of Enchantment, each one of them boasts about the many course that are located in each area. Not like other parts of the country, golf in New Mexico is at a fair value for high desert golfing. Go to Phoenix in the winter months and see how much you pay for golf there, that is not the case in New Mexico. If you would like to challenge yourself with courses that challenge your shot making ability but are still fair and at the same time see some of the most beautiful scenery in the United States, then New Mexico golf is something you have to try.
Golf New Mexico's Northern areas: Play some of the most exciting golf, while winding through some of the beautiful high desert plateau regions. The modified desert-links style courses of Black Mesa golf club that is near Espanola, then Taos country club are some of the finest and challenging that you will play. But we can't forget Marty Sanchez Links de Santa fe as another of the fine northern section golf courses.There are many fine golf courses in the northern section of New Mexico. Taos country club located high in the nothern mountains will challenge every aspect of your game. Black Mesa golf club that is located north of Santa Fe near Espanola is one of the best target golf courses in the state. A great public course located in Santa Fe is Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe. This course is not that long but it is tough. All of these courses are a modified desert-links style that winds across the high plateau. There are a couple of course in the Taos area and a nice mountain course that is east of Taos is Angel Fire golf club. South of Santa Fe is Pueblo de Cochiti Golf Course, a Robert Trent Jones Jr. design recently updated by his son, Robert Trent Jones III.
Central area for golfing in New Mexico: Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club east of Albuquerque, Twin Warriors Golf Club and Santa Ana Golf Club, as well as Sandia Golf Club, all north of town, offer resort golf, with Paa-Ko being the crown jewel of the bunch. The NCAA has visited Albuquerque in the past and played there championships at the University of New Mexico Championship golf course. Now this is a great test of golf due to the hills that roll across the course and is just a few minutes away from the rental car center at the Albuquerque Sunport airport. Only seven minutes south on Interstate 25 is the 27-hole Isleta Eagle Golf Course, part of the Isleta Casino & Resort.
Southeast section for golfing in New Mexico: Remember Billy the Kid, well Lincoln county N.M. is where he roomed. Ruidoso is in the middle of where Billy did most of his gun slinging. Nearby are the Links at Sierra Blanca, Rainmakers, Cree Meadows and the Inn of the Mountain Gods, a Ted Robinson design. All are mountain courses rising and falling through Ponderosa pines. Most people have heard of Roswell, NM. This is the home of the alien crash in 1947 and also the home of two great courses. They are the New Mexico Military Institute and Spring River. In the town made famous by the caverns, Carlsbad host a great muni course called the Lake Carlsbad golf course.
Southern section for Golfing in New Mexico: Between Las Cruces and Socorro, N.M., lie a handful of true bargains, starting with New Mexico Tech Golf Course, a tight parkland layout in Socorro. Farther south on Interstate 25 in Elephant Butte, N.M., Sierra del Rio Golf Course follows the folds of the Sonorran Desert. Traveling south from Elephant Butte to Las Cruces we have the New Mexico State University golf course and the Sonoma Ranch Golf club.Located south of Las Cruces is the beautiful Butterfield Trail which is located in El Paso, Texas. This is the only tom Fazio design in all directions for hundreds of miles.
Out of the way but worth the drive if you want to explore golf in New Mexico elsewhere: Pinon Hills Golf Course in Farmington, N.M., in the Four Corners area; Silver City Golf Course in the Southwest New Mexico; west from Albuquerque about 40 miles is Grants, New Mexico and the Coyote del Malpais golf course.
Golfing in New Mexico is great. These courses mentioned are some of the best around.
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Robert Trent Jones III was not involved in the design of Pueblo de Cochiti golf course. That was his father\’s exclusive design and redesign. Robert Trent Jones III is a movie director and not a golf course architect
Robert Trent Jones III was not involved in the design of Pueblo de Cochiti golf course. That was his father\’s exclusive design and redesign. Robert Trent Jones III is a movie director and not a golf course architect
Mrs. Noonan
12 Jul 10 at 10:15 am