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    Castle Pines Golf Club

    Castle Rock, CO, United States Private

    Overview

    When Golf Digest began its annual Best New Course awards in 1983, the review panel selected Castle Pines as the Private Course winner, but Bill Davis, co-founder of Golf Digest and founding father of all its course rankings, didn’t care for the course and vetoed its inclusion. So no private course was honored that year. Davis soon recognized his error, and in 1987—its first year of eligibility—Castle Pines joined America’s 100 Greatest and has remained there ever since. Club founder Jack Vickers, a Midwest oilman, had urged architect Jack Nicklaus to produce a mountain-venue design worthy of a major championship. Jack did, but when a championship never resulted, Vickers established his own, The International, which for many years was the only PGA Tour event played under a unique Stableford format. It’s a pity that The International is no longer on the Tour’s schedule. Like Muirfield Village, the only other solo Nicklaus design in the top 50, Castle Pines has undergone a steady procession of hole alterations to keep pace with changing technology, and changing tastes.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 8130
    Slope 148
    Facility Type Private
    Year Opened 1981
    Designer Jack Nicklaus

    Awards

    100 Greatest
    Best Courses in Every State

    Ranking history:

    100 Greatest: Ranked since 1987.
    2023-'24 ranking: 46th.
    Previous ranking: 48th.
    Highest ranking: 28th, 2009-'10.

    Best in State: Ranked first, 1987-'91, 2005-'18. Ranked second, 2019-'24. Ranked inside the top 5 since 1983.

    Current ranking: Second.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    4.7

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    7.6948
    Character
    7.8583
    Challenge
    7.7364
    Layout Variety
    7.6752
    Fun
    7.4844
    Aesthetics
    7.9909
    Conditioning
    7.7264

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