Golf in New Mexico – The Splendour of the Land of Enchantment
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.
Northern section for golf New Mexico: Taos Country Club, Black Mesa Golf Club near Espanola and Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe are all modified desert-links courses winding across the high plateau. East of Taos is Angel Fire Golf Club, a mountain course. The Trent Jones family name is no stranger to New Mexico golf. Just south of Santa Fe is Pueblo de Cochiti golf course. Originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., but has recently been updated by his son, Robert Trent Jones III.
Golf New Mexico’s Central area: East of Albuquerque on the other side of the Sandia mountains is Paa-Ko Ridge golf club. This is probably considered the crown jewel of the golf courses in the central area of the state. But not to forget the others like Santa Ana golf club and its sister course Twin Warriors golf club, which you might remember just hosted the 2009 Professional Club Pro’s championship. There is also Sandia golf club and all of these courses are located north of the town of Albuquerque. All of these courses offer the finest in resort golf that you can find in the state. The University of New Mexico Championship Golf Course, a hilly test and frequent venue of NCAA events, is just a 7-iron from the Albuquerque airport rental-car center. 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: Lincoln County, N.M., is where Billy the Kid did most of his gun-toting and Ruidoso lies in the heart of the Kid’s old stomping grounds. Nearby in Ruidoso are several of the Ted Robinson designs. These designs include the Inn of the Mountain Gods, Cree Meadow, Rainmakers which is the newest of the courses and the Links at Sierra Blanca. If you love mountain courses and Ponderosa pines then you are going to love these courses as they roll up and down the mountain side. In Roswell, where two aliens bought it in a 1947 space-ship crash, play the Spring River and New Mexico Military Institute golf courses. There is a low cost municipal course located in Carlsbad called the Lake Carlsbad golf course.
Southern section for Golfing in New Mexico: Looking for a nice tight parkland layout. Then Socorro and the New Mexico Tech golf course is your course. Socorro is located between Socorro and Las Cruces. Located in the Sonorran Desert, located in Elephant Butte, NM, is some of the finest golf in New Mexico and that is the Sierra del Rio golf course. Elephant Butte is located south of Socorro and north of Las Cruces. 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.
As you can see golf in New Mexico in the land of enchantment is something that you need to try and enjoy.
