I was lucky enough to have played Hobble Creek Golf Course last Sunday morning. I played with my Salt Lake City golf Meetup group and recommend such groups highly if you are a single golfer like mysel... Continue »

I was lucky enough to have played Hobble Creek Golf Course last Sunday morning. I played with my Salt Lake City golf Meetup group and recommend such groups highly if you are a single golfer like myself, looking for a fun round of golf with like-minded people. Is about 1 hour from downtown Salt Lake City. It is up in the mountains above Springville, which is just south of Provo, Utah, where the campus of BYU is located. Now let me assure you, there are plenty of high-quality golf courses in and around the Salt Lake Valley. I have played a few of them, and for the price that they give to Utah residents, frankly, they cannot be beat. Having seen the photographs of Hobble Creek, I can tell you that I knew it was going to be a special experience. It is a mountain course, fairways are a little narrow, but most of them are easily played, making sure that you play from the proper color tee box. From the tips, this is all the golf course you could want. There are huge mature trees lining each of the fairways, some interesting dog legs, some interesting uphill and downhill lies to explore. Also tricky little par 3s. The condition of the fairways after our mild winter and early spring rains were absolutely magnificent. And I don't use that word lightly. What a wonderfully conditioned golf course. The tee-boxes may have been a little unlevel, were not the best I have ever seen condition-wise, but they were certainly serviceable. The greens were actually quite nice, although a little hard for my taste. I could not get a ball to back up to save my soul. 90% of the greens were in excellent condition responded well to both uphill and downhill putts. Pin placement is crucial is the placement of your ball. You really do want to be below the hole if you want to score well! The other 10% of the greenshad a bit of the "fungus-amongus". This might be something to expect when we have had the amount of springtime rains we have had in the recent past. These greens were on the back side, the northern-most part of the golf course, so perhaps that has something to do with it. Overall, Hobble Creek should be a destination course! It's so beautiful, it was almost like being on a mountain retreat! With the cool breezes blowing and the high mountains on either side, a more picturesque golf course is going to be hard to find! Even though it is one hour from my house, I am going to put this on my regular rotation, it was that nice!