Located a skip north on Highway 9 midst some gorgeous Breckenridge real estate, Breckenridge Golf Club offers you a peak experience in the Colorado Rockies.
The Town of Breckenridge is the only municipality in the world with its very own Jack Nicklaus championship golf course. Located a skip north on Highway 9 midst some gorgeous Breckenridge real estate, Breckenridge Golf Club offers you a peak experience in the Colorado Rockies. You could need a telescope at 9,300 feet when your ball whizzes record distances through thin air across a snowcapped background!
The dense wooded areas, pen native grasslands, and wetlands veil peaceful Breckenridge homes gracing surrounding neighborhoods such as Fairways at Breckenridge, Highland Greens; Highlands at Breckenridge and its Braddock Hill, Discovery Hill, Discovery Ridge, and Highlands Park South; Stone Haven at Breckenridge Golf Club, Swan River Ranch, and Ten Mile Vistas. Here’s where you’ll concede that you could possibly live in heaven on some choice piece of Breckenridge real estate.
Highly honored over the years as “Best Mountain Course” and “Toughest Mountain Course”, as one of Golf Digest’s “Places to Play” and “Upscale Places to Play” along with an honored Zagat rating, you can even visit one of America’s 100 Best Golf Shops at the Club. All the pomp aside, these courses are just plain exhilarating. The three courses called The Bear, The Beaver, and The Elk weave through a majestic mountain valley once flocked by golf miners. Golfers love the practice facility, grass-tee driving range, putting and chipping practice greens, and sand bunker practice. They appreciate the four sets of tees that accommodate everyone’s skill level. Golf instructors are available to be sure you discover latent talents and challenge yourself to do your best.
With a welcoming clubhouse and restaurant Club 28, there’s also plenty of camaraderie. The social element is enhanced at many summer programs and competitive events that you’re sure to relish. There are the Men’s League, Women’s League, Mixed Team events, Junior Player events, Individual events, Parent-Child events, and Ladies Night Out—to name the regulars.
In 1985, the Bear course was the first nine to dress up the area that the miners knew as Buffalo Flats. The Bear was named after the black ones that occasionally stroll across the greens. Players need all skills on deck for the tough holes 7, 8, and 9. The Bear nine has an open feel with lots of native grasses and wetlands and views of the Ten-Mile Mountain range. The ski area can be seen from the green on hole 5.
Taking its name and design from the beaver ponds straddling some of its holes, the Beaver Course opened in 1987. With narrow fairways, accurate drives are a must. If you get off track for any of holes 6, 7, and 8, you will be midst the rock piles leftover from the days of gold mining. The change in elevation along with the swirling breezes makes this one even tougher. An old active volcano, Buffalo Mountain, part of the Gore Mountain Range frames hole 9.
In 2001, the Elk nine opened, offering great elevation changes and incredible views of the Ten-Mile Range. Accuracy is the name of the game here. Goof up and you will find the lake and the bushes that the elk adore. Hole 7 has the most elevation change of any of the 27-holes at Breckenridge going from 9,370 to 9,445 feet, the highest point on the entire golf course.
So there are the panoramic views, moderate temperatures, playing with deer, elk, moose, bear and red fox. There are the splashing beavers and powerful red tail hawks. And there are friends and neighbors waiting to get to know you out on the greens. Just follow the ball into the Rockies.
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