Best Public Golf in Utah

Utah is one of those states where good golf is thought to exist, but few can really say for sure. Here are 10 of my favorite courses.

5 Things to Know: Tiger Woods’s New Utah Course Design

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Tiger Woods and his design firm recently announced plans for a new private golf course that’s tied into the Marcella Club in Park City, Utah. Given the location, it’s not a surprise that modern luxury living is the vision of the club, which is leaning on Tiger’s name in selling expensive real estate lots, including […]

Dogs, Flies, and Tigers: Mark O’Meara’s Talisker Club

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Mark O’Meara makes the most of the outdoor and indoor pleasures surrounding his home at Talisker Club in the mountains of Northern Utah Mark O’Meara surveys the large pond that defines the cape-style 9th hole at Tuhaye, the golf course he designed at Talisker Club—Tuhaye near Park City, Utah. Even at 7,000 feet above sea […]

10 Top Golf Courses That Opened in 2020

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Even with golf’s resurgence in 2020 amid the pandemic, new course openings are exceedingly limited. After all, with more than 38,000 courses in over 200 countries worldwide, there’s no shortage of supply. Think about that. Even if you played one new course every single day, you’d need more than 100 years to play them all. […]

8 Questions with Mark O’Meara

Imagine waiting almost 20 years to reach the pinnacle of your sport, and then suddenly see it happen twice in a span of three months. That was the flood of success that Mark O’Meara experienced back in 1998. After winning his first major title at the Masters, at age 41, O’Meara backed up his green […]

American Dream Courses: Southwest

After exploring the southeast, we stay at a similar latitude but move across the country to the southwest for the second installment of our “American Dream” series—specifically California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and southern Utah. The southwest isn’t blessed with quite as much golf as the southeast perhaps, and there are comparatively few old-school golf […]

Red Ledges: Worth the Wait

They couldn’t have picked a nicer place—or a worse time—to launch a golf community. Red Ledges, located along the back range of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains less than an hour from Salt Lake City and 15 minutes past Park City, began selling real estate around a Jack Nicklaus Signature Course in 2007. Which, if you don’t remember, was just as a […]

Links Living: Talisker Club

With a collection of venues and amenities in Utah’s Park City, this four-season private club continues to enhance its one-of-a-kind offerings for members For some, it’s about the golf. For others, it’s a lifestyle with plenty to offer off the course. At the all-seasons Talisker Club in Utah’s Deer Valley, a year-long menu of outdoor […]

A Dream Southwest U.S. Golf Road Trip

When my parents moved from the East Coast to the Monterey Peninsula several decades ago, it opened up a new golf frontier for me, spurring several golf trips in and around 17-Mile Drive and the Carmel Valley.  More recently, they bought a new home in the Southwest, on the outer fringes of the ever-expanding Phoenix/Scottsdale […]

LINKS Living: Red Ledges

A spectacular mountain setting combined with a family-friendly atmosphere has made this 10-year-old community an instant and continuing success Red Ledges, set in the rugged mountain landscape of Utah’s Heber Valley, recently celebrated its first decade as the most successful private destination community in the Park City region. At the root of its success, beyond […]