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From New Mexico's Organ Mountains to Utah's
Fishlake National Forest, the west is filled with beauty,
adventure and one-of-a-kind golf destinations.
BY TOM BEDELL
Southwest
Middleton, an old horse thief. You'll pass over the Niobrara
River more than once, creating a plethora of waterfalls worth
investigating-notably the Stair Step Falls, part of the Nature
Conservancy's Niobrara Valley Preserve.
Valentine, about 4.5 hours from Sioux Falls, is where you'll
bunk in at The Prairie Club, a Great Plains can't-miss golf oasis,
a private club and resort. Stay long enough to take advantage
of the Tom Lehman- and Chris Brands-designed Dunes Course
and the Graham Marsh-designed Pines Course, plus the Gil
Hanse- and Geoff Shackleford-designed ten-hole free-form
Horse Course. And don't miss the Chris Brands-designed Old
Wagon Putting Course. It's not cheap, but think Bandon Dunes
without the Pacifi c Ocean and you get the drift.
NE
Valentine « Gothenburg, Neb.:
If your club has decent reciprocals, by all means
try to get on the private Sand Hills in Mullen. It was that minimalist
links-style course that in 1995 put the state on traveling
golfers' radars.
Soon set sail for Wild Horse Golf Club in Gothenburg, taking
Route 2 past the Nebraska National Forest to Broken Bow
and thence to the course, about three hours. Course designers
Dave Axland and Dan Proctor learned their lessons well when
WILD HORSE GOLF CLUB, NEB.
helping designers Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw construct Sand
Hills. In a fl at panorama, with its sense of breadth, vast sky and
benign nothingness, with old style windmills in the infi nite
horizon and cattle skulls as tee markers, an utterly enjoyable
round of golf awaits.
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