Albuquerque CVB Guide - (Page 35) HIGH-DESERT GOLFING A MEMORABLE TOPOGRAPHY on the Santa Fe Trail is ranked among the four best multi-stop shops for your he natural attributes of Albuquerque’s next golf trip, GOLF Magazine, (May landscape translate a creative edge in 2007). Pueblo golf courses include: Isleta golf design into three distinct high- Eagle, Sandia, Santa Ana, Twin Warriors, desert golfing experiences. Albuquerque Towa and Black Mesa. Area golf courses is a golfing destination with memorable among the top 40 casino courses ranked topography, mild year-round tempera- by Golf Digest include No. 10 Twin tures and open skies, offering parkland, Warriors Golf Club, and No. 28 Sandia desert links and Golf Club, No. Albuquerque is a golfing mountain courses, 33 Santa Ana in the rich histori- destination with memorable topography, mild Golf Club (July year-round temperatures cal context of shared 2007). and open skies Native, Hispanic and Paa-Ko Ridge, Western cultures. the ultimate Golf On The Santa mountain course, Fe Trail, an organization offering uniquely located on the historic Turquoise Trail Southwestern golf packages, traces the northeast of Albuquerque, between Cedar roots of a 150-year-old Western route Crest and Santa Fe was one of only 17 from horse and buggy travelers to a con- courses in America awarded a Five Star temporary journey for carts, clubs, and Rating by readers of Golf Digest (May T of the Top New Courses You Can Play by GOLF Magazine (December 2005). Also north of the city, Twin Warriors Golf Club at Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa and its sister course, Santa Ana Golf Club offers golfers the challenge of high-desert contours with a nearby soothing after-golf spa. Isleta Eagle Golf Club, designed with three distinctive nine-hole tracts featuring lakes, mesas and arroyos, has southern views of Mount Taylor and a ribbon of cottonwoods. The UNM Championship course, a true urban links course with meticulous greens and generous views of Downtown Albuquerque and the Rio Grande Valley, is only three miles from Albuquerque’s Sunport, and has been named among the Top 25 public golf courses by Golf Digest. WHY DO ALBUQUERQUE LOVE TO PLAY PROFESSIONAL GOLFERS ALBUQUERQUE COURSES? Four-time LPGA Tour winner and Albuquerque resident Dorothy Delasin loves the speed of the ball in flight and green chile. She says ©Robert Reck, Courtesy Paa-Ko Ridge Golf Club of her love for golfing Albuquerque, “First of all, the ball goes a lot farther in Albuquerque because the city sits at 5,000 feet, so I get to watch my drives go a lot farther. Second of all, it’s the only place in the world where you can get green chile on your hot dog at the turn!” D.J. Brigman, PGA Tour Pro and adventurous golfers with eight high-desert courses. Many courses on the Trail are characterized by the Native American pueblo lands they inhabit, featuring signature holes designed around ancient cultural sites, sandstone ridges, natural arroyos, multiple elevation changes, mesas, lakes, piñon, juniper and unique bunkering. Golf www.itsatrip.org 2006), was voted as No. 4 on America’s 100 Best Courses for $100 or less, and was recently named as the Best of the Southwest by Zagat Survey (May 2007). Sandia Golf Club, which opened in 2005, shares the northern edge of Albuquerque with a herd of bison and was listed as one Albuquerque resident, says of golfing in Albuquerque, “Anytime I go out to play, I know I’ll be sharing my day with some beautiful weather, guaranteed sunshine and amazing views.” 35 http://www.itsatrip.org
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