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The best golf courses in Utah

By Derek Duncan and Stephen Hennessey
May 29, 2025
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It's very rare that a newcomer debuts so high on our Best in State rankings, but Black Desert Resort is not like many other projects. The $2-billion resort opened its doors the week it hosted the PGA Tour’s first event in Utah in more than 60 years then came back months later and chartered a flight from the LPGA’s first major of the year to fly the ladies to the desert of Utah. Black Desert takes out all the stops—and with more courses not official but being talked about, we’re excited to see what the limits are outside St. George, Utah.

There are some other projects to be excited about, too. Tiger Woods’ design company is working on a course for an upscale community development, Marcella Club, which has been in the works for a number of years. Robert Trent Jones II also plans to have nine holes ready next summer at his Three Bridges Club, about 15 minutes outside Provo. The golf business is clearly strong in Utah.

Below you'll find our 2025-'26 ranking of the Best Golf Courses in Utah.

Scroll on for the complete list of the best courses in Utah. Be sure to click through to each individual course page for bonus photography and reviews from our course panelists. We also encourage you to leave your own ratings … so you can make your case for (or against) any course that you've played.

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16. Canyons Golf Course at Park City Mountain
Park City, UT
2.3
2 Panelists
Previous rank: NR
One of the best mountains in the West also boasts a modern golf course. Gene and Casey Bates, who have partnered with Fred Couples and Johnny Miller on other designs, opened the Canyons course in Park City in 2014, which utilizes the surrounding mountainous terrain and large elevation changes up to 550 feet. Though the layout is short, measuring less than 6,100 yards and played at elevation, there’s no shortage of challenge from navigating rumbled, meandering fairways, avoiding big misses with a number of large runoffs and longer par 3s.
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15. Copper Rock
Hurricane, UT
3.7
12 Panelists
Previous rank: NR
Built on a sprawling piece of property with desert dunes and mountain views, Copper Rock is a 6,901-yard routing that opened in February 2020 that's absolutely worth playing if you're in Southern Utah. The course has also hosted the LPGA's Epson Tour in the past.
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14. Soldier Hollow Golf Course: Gold
Midway, UT
3.6
11 Panelists
Previous rank: NR
Built on the mountainside above Midway, Solider Hollow is a 36-hole facility with beautiful views of the surrounding mountains and valley below. The challenging Gold course has dramatic elevation changes and can tip out at over 7,700 yards. When the 2012 U.S. Amateur Public Links was played at Soldier Hollow, 17 holes from the Gold course were used along with one hole from the Silver course.
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13. Willow Creek Country Club
Sandy, UT
3.8
5 Panelists
Previous rank: NR
Willow Creek Country Club is one of the best golf courses in Utah. Discover our experts' reviews and course information.
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12. Jeremy Ranch Golf & Country Club: Jeremy
Park City, UT
3.6
6 Panelists
Previous rank: NR
Jeremy Ranch Golf & Country Club is one of the. best golf courses in Utah. Discover our experts' reviews and course information.
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11. Promontory Club Dye Canyon Course
Park City, UT
3.7
3 Panelists
Previous rank: NR
Promontory Club Dye Canyon Course is ranked 7th in Utah
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10. Sand Hollow Resort: Championship Course
Hurricane, UT
4.2
28 Panelists
Previous rank: 6
One of the most scenic courses in the southwest, Sand Hollow’s Championship course has several holes that play on the edge of jagged cliffs: three of them made the Golf Digest America's 100 Greatest Holes ranking. The front nine is a relatively straightforward desert layout with well-placed bunkers. The back side features more elevation change as golfers play along a towering ridgeline, which falls off dramatically into a red rock canyon on the left. For the views alone—not to mention the strategic design—this is a must-play in southern Utah.
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9. Park Meadows Country Club
Park City, UT
3.3
4 Panelists
Previous rank: 8
Park Meadows Country Club is our ninth-ranked course in Utah.
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8. Salt Lake Country Club
Salt Lake City, UT
3.7
5 Panelists
Previous rank: 10
Salt Lake Country Club is our eighth-ranked course in Utah.
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7. Talisker Club at Tuhaye
Kamas, UT
3.3
3 Panelists
Previous rank: 5
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6. Red Ledges Golf Club
Heber City, UT
3.2
7 Panelists
Previous rank: 3
Red Ledges Golf Club is our sixth-ranked course in Utah.
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5. Entrada at Snow Canyon
Saint George, UT
3.8
17 Panelists
Previous rank: 9
Entrada at Snow Canyon was Golf Digest's Best Transformation winner in 2022 following a complete strip-down and rebuild by architect David McLay Kidd of the modest 1990s design. Every hole was redeveloped, with fairways widened and greens lowered and enlarged, their surrounds recontoured to better promote recovery options and the ability to bounce and run balls onto the putting surfaces. The setting in the high desert of southern Utah remains scenic, with holes skirting lakes and making a turn through outcroppings of black volcanic rock on the second nine, but the course is much more playable and elastic for the members.
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4. Promontory Club: Painted Valley Course
Park City, UT
3.7
7 Panelists
Previous rank: 4
Promontory Club Painted Valley Course is our fourth-ranked course in Utah.
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3. Victory Ranch
Kamas, UT
4.5
12 Panelists
Previous rank: 2
Victory Ranch is our third-ranked course in Utah.
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2. Black Desert Resort
Ivins, UT
4.5
22 Panelists
Previous rank: NR
Black Desert Resort in the arid desert of southern Utah, surrounded by horizons of red rock mountains, was the last golf course Tom Weiskopf was involved in building (he was diagnosed with cancer as construction was beginning). Opened in 2023, the public course is a stunning juxtaposition of wavy fairways chiseled out of fields of black lava rock that had to be blasted into golf formations. Phil Smith, Weiskopf’s longtime design partner, completed the visually arresting design that hosted the PGA Tour’s new Black Desert Championship in the fall of 2024—the first tour event in Utah in more than 60 years—and an LPGA event in 2025. Black Desert Resort is located outside the golf-rich area of St. George, Utah.
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1. Glenwild Golf Club & Spa
Park City, UT
4.5
16 Panelists
Previous rank: 1
Glenwild Golf Club & Spa sits on a meadow valley north of Park City, offering invigorating vistas of the Wasatch Mountain Range surrounding the community. Tom Fazio was given first dibs on the land for his 18 holes, with developers agreeing to plot homesites only after he’d completed his routing. So he clustered holes together, positioned some holes along a couple of irrigation lakes and linked the lakes via a network of streams and cascading waterfalls. The outer rough framing holes consist of native sagebrush, along with patches of flowering purple flax and transplanted aspen, chokecherry, maple, willow, spruce and Austrian pine. Enough trees were transplanted to define targets, but not so many as to block panoramic views.
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