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The Park City,
Utah golf scene joined the national golf boom which
added a smattering of great new golf courses on the passed decade. The 2002 Olympics brought many
new eyes and money to this resort town, and top golf course designers
etched their signatures on the area.
Fabulous new courses have
propelled the Park City area into a little known, burgeoning golf paradise.
Renown golf course architects like Tom Fazio, Pete Dye, Jack Nicklaus,
Rees Jones, Gene Bates, Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay, even a newcomer to the golf
design world, Mark O'Meara, and all have signature designs in the
Park City, Utah area.
In 2004 a
spectacular 36-hole Gene Bates design at
Soldier Hollow
Golf Course in the Heber Valley area opened for play and has since
become one of the top courses in Utah. The stunning mountain meadow setting and
brilliant course design has proven to be one of Utah's most
definitive public golf courses.
Within the
general Park City area the quality of great public golf continues in Park City Golf
Club, and continues into the Heber
Valley about 20 minutes away, with The Homestead Mountain
Resort Golf Course and top-ranked Wasatch State Park
Golf Courses.
On the private
club side of the golf in Park City , the service and locations takes a step up
the "wow" ladder with
Promontory's Pete Dye Canyon
Course and the
Jack Nicklaus'
Painted Valley Course. The excellent golf designs continue at the
Tom Fazio crafted,
Glenwild Golf Club,
which has been the #1 golf course in Utah on the Golf Digest lists since its
opening. This top ranking may perhaps change with a new Rees Jones design in
Victory Ranch Golf Club opening to rave reviews.
Additionally, newbie golf architect Mark O'Meara laid out the mysterious Tuhaye Golf Club, and we
can't forget the Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay designed The Jeremy Golf
Club, and the Golden Bear's first forte into Park City over 25 years ago
at
Park Meadows Country
Club within the city limits.
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