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Courtesy of Evan Schiller
Shooting Star Golf Club
Teton Village, WY • Private
Shooting Star Golf Club
6765 N Crystal Springs Drive
Teton Village, WY 83014
United States
Overview
Built in a 250-acre meadow beneath the Grand Teton Mountains and its ski runs, Shooting Star is a core-golf layout with no housing. Its opening nine runs counterclockwise around the perimeter of the site, and its incoming nine circles clockwise through the interior. The flat land was re-sculpted into hills and valleys, then lightly planted with aspens and evergreens. Water hazards, in the form of 50 acres of lakes, ponds and a canal reshaped into a stream, affect play on 13 of the 18 holes. The club displays green sketches of all 18 in the clubhouse, each signed by Fazio, and the notations on them reflect some of Fazio’s design instructions, such as “Make sure bunker right of green feels real intimate with the stream,” “Create a flash in the left central back portion of the green to help slow down long iron shots,” and “No bunkers in front of green to entice better players to pull out driver from the tee.”
About
Awards
Ranking history:
Second 100 Greatest: Ranked 2017-'22, 2025-'26.
2025-'26 ranking: 104th.
100 Greatest: Ranked 2023-'24.
Highest ranking: 98th, 2023-'24.
Best in State: Ranked Top 3 in Wyoming since 2017.
2025-'26 ranking (and previous): 1st.
Panelists
Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists
100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES
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Reviews
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“One of the best mountain golf courses in the United States. While it plays in a valley at the base of the Grand Tetons, it offers a lot of movement around its many streams. A strategic delight."
Read More2025
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“Shooting Star is the best golf course in Wyoming and in the Jackson area. In fact, it may be one of the best mountain courses in the United States. Tom Fazio is known for many mountain courses, as he was never reluctant to dynamite rock, add and move dirt and create a golf course where the land was difficult. However, with Shooting Star, he had a property at the base of the Grand Tetons in a flat meadow with interesting streams. Here, he added a lot of dirt that kept the naturalness of the land against this might mountain range, but also created interest and individuality to the golf holes. Kudos to the Fazio Design Team for a great balance of man made and natural features that blend together wonderfully. I have played almost all of Tom Fazio's designs in the United States and Shooting Star is certainly one of his best, along with Wade Hampton and Stock Farm."
Read More2025
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“Shooting Star is a great example of Fazio's best work. The course is set amongst the idyllic backdrop of the Tetons and Fazio strategically framed the course with the distant mountains. Shooting Star is not mountain golf; it is without large elevation changes, but is laid out on a grand scale due to the elevation. A first for this panelist, in that the score was lowered due to the greens being too fast. The excessive speed led to unfair results from well struck shots."
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“A visually stunning golf course with immaculate conditioning and greens. Beautiful and strategic bunkering with wonderful driving vistas. The par 3's are particularly serene and peaceful but every hole has merit. An overall fantastic experience."
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“From the opening salvo Shooting Star is a visual stunner. Fazio took a flat piece of property and moved 2 million cubic yards of dirt and made it look like it was totally natural. The par 4's are first rate with wonderful driving vistas and well positioned and strategic bunkers. The par 3's evoke feelings of peace and serenity in beautiful settings and the sculpted par 5's are as good as you find anywhere. Being non-walkable does detract a little from the overall experience, but the positives more than make up for that."
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“Really incredible property and the course works it nearly perfectly. All four par 3s face a different direction and the course works outside to in. Great conditioning. Great mix of green shapes and sizes. Water coming into play on numerous holes makes it interesting."
Read More2024
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“Good condition, some nice holes, a contrived stream, course did not look natural."
Read More2023
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“Beautiful Tom Fazio course in the Teton Mountains. Great conditions, good caddies, and a welcoming staff made playing this course an absolute joy. The views, the views, the views. Play here if you get the opportunity."
Read More2022
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“Awesome Fazio. The course is almost as good as the views of the ski slopes. Can be very intimidating, but the altitude helps with what looks like a massive course. Ask your caddie how many celebs he/she has caddied for!"
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“Shooting star lived up to and exceeded the hype that I have heard. The property is in an unbelievable setting as it sits right in teton village and beneath the Jackson Hole Ski Resort. I was very surprised to hear that much of the water on the course was man-made because it looks so natural and native to the location. Fazzio did an incredible job with the layout and allowing it to feel like the natural landscape vs a bulldozed course. The conditions were as good as I've seen, with carpet-like fairways, and firm, fast, yet receptive greens. I did notice that the course seems to favor a draw quite strongly (which luckily enough I hit), with most of the doglegs being to the left. The layout variety was strong with shorter and longer par 3s and par 4s, which kept things interesting."
Read More2022
