Course Profile: Colorado Golf Club
And the club very quickly earned a visit from a pro tour major championship, and has hosted more big events since including a Solheim Cup.
Is Colorado Golf Club Open to the Public?
No. Colorado Golf Club is a private club. Non-members are allowed to play the golf courses only as guests of members.
Big Events Played at Colorado GC
These are the major championships and other top-level tournaments played at Colorado Golf Club, plus the winners of those events:- 2010 Senior PGA Championship: Tom Lehman
- 2013 Solheim Cup: Team Europe
- 2019 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship: Lukas Michel
Pars and Yardages
Here are the pars and yardages for members' play from the longest (Championship) tees:
| Par | Championship Tees |
|
| Hole 1 | 5 | 653 |
| Hole 2 | 3 | 154 |
| Hole 3 | 4 | 428 |
| Hole 4 | 4 | 500 |
| Hole 5 | 4 | 479 |
| Hole 6 | 3 | 251 |
| Hole 7 | 5 | 583 |
| Hole 8 | 4 | 311 |
| Hole 9 | 4 | 483 |
| Out | 36 | 3,842 |
| Hole 10 | 4 | 463 |
| Hole 11 | 3 | 214 |
| Hole 12 | 4 | 531 |
| Hole 13 | 4 | 405 |
| Hole 14 | 4 | 329 |
| Hole 15 | 5 | 595 |
| Hole 16 | 5 | 552 |
| Hole 17 | 3 | 209 |
| Hole 18 | 4 | 464 |
| In | 36 | 3,762 |
| Total | 72 | 7,604 |
The USGA course rating for the Championship tees is 75.5, and the USGA slope rating is 149.
There are four other tees at Colorado GC:
- Black Tees: 7,264 yards, 74.5 course rating, 143 slope rating
- Blue Tees: 6,892 yards, 72.4 course rating, 139 slope rating
- White Tees: 6,179 yards, 69.4 course rating, 133 slope rating (women: 74.5/143)
- Red Tees: 5,109 yards, 66.7 course rating, 128 slope rating (women: 69.9/122)
More About Colorado Golf Club
The 18-hole golf course wanders around the club's 1,700-acre property, climbing and falling over elevation changes. The maintenance philosophy at Colorado Golf Club is to avoid putting too much water on the fairways, so that they naturally play firm and fast.Those fairways are, therefore, wide, giving the course an open feel as it plays through meadow with natural grasses surrounding playing corridors. But there are also plenty of pine trees around the property and, if your ball misses the fairway, pine needles on the ground. There are natural barrancas and the bunkers have a natural, umkempt look.
Being in the Denver area, Colorado Golf Club sits at approximately a mile-high elevation, so golf shots travel farther in the thinner air. That's an important consideration for golfers, and quite an adjustment for flat-landers playing CGC for the first time.
Colorado Golf Club was first tested by top golfers at qualifiers for the U.S. Open and U.S. Senior Open. Then, in 2008 — barely one year after the club's opening — the PGA of America announced Colorado Golf Club as the site of the 2010 Senior PGA Championship. That is one of the five major championships of senior men's golf.
Colorado Golf Club was so new when the Senior PGA took place that the club had a temporary clubhouse. Its permanent clubhouse was still under construction, and was fenced off. The clubhouse was finally completed in 2011.
One of the club's founders is Mike McGetrick, a well-known and highly regarded golf instructor. Among his clients is Juli Inkster, who lobbied for CGC to get the 2013 Solheim Cup, and Meg Mallon, Team USA captain for the 2013 Solheim Cup.
