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    Golf Digest Logo | 2025-2026 ranking

    The best golf courses in Utah

    By Derek Duncan and Stephen Hennessey
    May 29, 2025

    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.

    16. Canyons Golf Course at Park City Mountain
    Public
    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
    Public
    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 also has hosted the LPGA's Epson Tour in the past.
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    14. Soldier Hollow Golf Course: Gold
    Public
    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
    Private
    13. Willow Creek Country Club
    Sandy, UT
    3.7
    4 Panelists
    Previous rank: NR
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    12. Jeremy Ranch Golf & Country Club: Jeremy
    Kevin Winzeler
    Private
    12. Jeremy Ranch Golf & Country Club: Jeremy
    Park City, UT
    3.6
    6 Panelists
    Previous rank: NR
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    11. Promontory Club Dye Canyon Course
    Private
    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
    Brian G. Oar - Fairways Photography
    Public
    10. Sand Hollow Resort: Championship Course
    Hurricane, UT
    4.2
    25 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
    Courtesy of the club
    Private
    9. Park Meadows Country Club
    Park City, UT
    3.3
    3 Panelists
    Previous rank: 8
    Park Meadows Country Club is ranked 8th in Utah
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    8. Salt Lake Country Club
    Courtesy of the club
    Private
    8. Salt Lake Country Club
    Salt Lake City, UT
    3.7
    5 Panelists
    Previous rank: 10
    Salt Lake Country Club is ranked 10th in Utah
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    7. Talisker Club at Tuhaye
    Private
    7. Talisker Club at Tuhaye
    Kamas, UT
    3.3
    3 Panelists
    Previous rank: 5
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    6. Red Ledges Golf Club
    Private
    6. Red Ledges Golf Club
    Heber City, UT
    3.2
    6 Panelists
    Previous rank: 3
    Red Ledges Golf Club is ranked third in Utah
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    5. Entrada at Snow Canyon
    Brian Oar
    Private
    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 stripdown 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 abiliity 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
    Private
    4. Promontory Club: Painted Valley Course
    Park City, UT
    3.6
    6 Panelists
    Previous rank: 4
    Promontory Club Painted Valley Course is ranked fourth in Utah
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    3. Victory Ranch
    Private
    3. Victory Ranch
    Kamas, UT
    4.5
    12 Panelists
    Previous rank: 2
    Victory Ranch is ranked second in Utah
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    2. Black Desert Resort
    Brian Oar
    Public
    2. Black Desert Resort
    Ivins, UT
    4.5
    21 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 will host the PGA Tour’s new Black Desert Championship in the fall of 2024, and another LPGA event the following year. Black Desert Resort is located outside the golf-rich area of St. George, Utah. The PGA Tour will host a new event at Black Desert in 2024, marking the first PGA Tour event in Utah in more than 60 years.
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    1. Glenwild Golf Club & Spa
    Courtesy of Doug Burke
    Private
    1. Glenwild Golf Club & Spa
    Park City, UT
    4.4
    15 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 consists 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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