You contact a handful of people whose opinions you value most. Think about it: When you plan a golf trip, do you call every golfer you know for their take? No. Our less-is-more approach creates a more meaningful and thoughtful list. Other ranking outlets employ thousands of raters. And from judging posts across four continents, our panelists are positioned to place courses from different regions around the globe into proper context, one of the main reasons GOLF’s Top 100 Courses rankings are the most esteemed in the game. Completed in April 2003, Baxter Spann's design skirts desert brush and is framed by the Sangre. Black Mesa Golf Club sign sums up this 7,307-yard course on the Santa Clara Pueblo, 20 miles north of Santa Fe: big course, big medicine - it will kick your butt. The group is seasoned and experienced - we look for raters who know what’s out there, what’s changing and what’s coming down the pike. Black Mesa Golf Club is an 18 hole public golf course located in Espanola, New Mexico. We empower and hold accountable a group of 97 well-traveled - and well-connected - golfers/aficionados, each capable of expressing their own sense of design excellence at the highest level. Like the game itself, there’s no need to unnecessarily overcomplicate things.įor much more on how we rate courses, click or tap here. Why? Because it invariably produces results that are widely lauded. It is an intentionally simple and straightforward process. Points were assigned to each bucket to arrive at an average score for each course, we divide its aggregate score by the number of votes. From those point tallies, the courses are then ranked accordingly.
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Panelists were also free to write in courses that they felt should have been included on the ballot (we had fewer than a handful of such additions in the U.S. 4-10 in the U.S., they checked that box, followed by 11-25, 26-50, and so on. If they believed the course to be among Nos. If our panelists considered a course to be among the top three in the country, they ticked that box. Beside that list of courses were 11 “buckets,” or groupings. list, each panelist was provided a list of 489 courses. Paako Ridge is among New Mexico’s finest public golf courses.Ĭourtesy Photo How we rank America’s best golf coursesįor the newly released 2020-21 U.S. The greens fees are very reasonable and the course represents one of America’s great golf bargains. From the 2nd in a natural saddle with its false front to the 10th with its reverse redan features, the greens pose all sorts of appealing questions. Plenty of room is provided off the tee (which is a good thing as some of the carries appear more daunting than they are) and the challenge stiffens at the imaginative set of greens.
Architect Baxter Spann capitalized on a grand opportunity to layer classic design features on a spacious block of property in the high desert of New Mexico. note: Some courses were omitted from our rankings because they did not receive enough votes.Ĭourse spotlight: Black Mesa (La Mesilla), ranked 1st in New Mexico. University of New Mexico Golf Course (Albuquerque) īook a tee time at University of New Mexico Golf Course.Įd. Paako Ridge (Sandia Park) īook a tee time at Paako Ridge. Piñon Hills Golf Course (Farmington) īook a tee time at Pinon Hills. Black Mesa (Espanola) īook a tee time at Black Mesa. Best New Mexico golf courses (2020/2021) 1.
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