Hope you somehow avoided the storms this afternoon! They delayed our club championship by a good hour or so.
This still sounds great. Posting so I get notified if thereās any movement in this direction.
Come join!
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Hello all, Im coming up to Park City for a wedding on 10/4-10/6. I should have the morning of 10/5 to get a round in. Any recommendations? Ceremony isnāt until 5PM so should have the entire morning to play with. Thanks in advance.
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Are you staying in Park City or SLC? If PC, either of the Soldier Hollow courses or Wasatch State Park courses are your best bet. Park City muni is closest but the worst of the options. The SH and Wasatch courses are about 20-25 minutes from downtown PC, so probably need a vehicle
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Staying in PC and will have a vehicle, so traveling a bit isnāt that big of a deal, as long as I have enough time to get back and get ready for the wedding.
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For sure SH and Wasatch are your best bets. Both have 36 holes. Soldier Hollow would be your ticket if you want more of a challenge, USGA have hosted events there before. Pretty unique public golf in Utah. Wasatch is also awesome with great scenery, more āvibeyā in my opinion. Canāt go wrong with either, some of the best public golf in the state tbh.
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Wanted to throw this out here last minute! We have 11 out of 12 spots filled and need one more tomorrow at Soldier Hollow. Playing 36 at 8:30 on gold and 1:30 on silver. We have a 2man best ball planned!
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Anyone in here play at golf the round during these colder months? I just picked up a 3 month membership to get my fix through the next few months
I live about 5 minutes from golf the round, so I would be game to whack a few balls in the winter.
We have a group that still tends to play golf in the cold, if the course is open 
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Hell yea, Iām out there often when the weathers nice. Pretty much always down if the weathers nice enoughā¦ Iāll shoot you a DM with my number if your ever looking for someone to fill out a tee time
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@andrewxschneider and I randomly saw each other at the range there yesterday. 10/10 still the worst smelling place to practice, but the bays are nice and warm at least
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After a weekend playing in DC Iām on the plane home thinking of putting together a St. George long weekend in Jan/feb. Anybody interested?
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Hey everyone, my fiancee and I recently got remote jobs and weāre looking at potential places to move (currently in Atlanta). I think weāre at a place where weāve narrowed it down to Salt Lake and Denver.
Iād love to know more about the golf scene in Salt Lake!
- Howās the public golf?
- Howās the private golf? Are local country clubs somewhat affordable (like less than $20k initiation fee)?
- Can you play year-round? If not, how long is the typical off-season?
- How active is NLU roost in Salt Lake? I am fairly new to roosts in general, so I guess Iām asking are there a lot of events? Random meetups? Etc. would love to have people to play golf with in a brand new place
Also: any particular neighborhoods yāall recommend in general? From what I can tell sugar house seems like a place weād like to live.
Thank you so much in advance I really appreciate it!
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Hi John!
Iāve been in SLC for 2 years now, and donāt ever plan on leaving. Itās my favorite place Iāve lived (WI, CO, MN, and AZ). The access to the mountains is second to none (way closer than anything youāll find in Denver, if hiking/mountain biking/skiing/etc. are your kind of thing as well).
Okay, now to answer golf specifics:
- Public golf is exceptional. We have tons of it, and itās cheap. $34-40 walking on almost everything in the valley (thanks to most public tracks being municipal courses). Greens are always rolling nice.
- Private golf - canāt speak to this as much. Thereās a ton of private golf up in Park City, but all of those are unattainable, unless youāre incredibly well-off - if so, kudos and nice job! There are some private courses down in the valley/along the Wasatch front, but Iām not sure the initiation fee (youāll probably have to call them directly to inquire).
- Yes, we play year-round. If thereās no snow and the ground is not frozen, the courses open. We are die-hards and will be out there in 38 degree weather all bundled up. If the sun is shining at 38-40 degrees and there isnāt much wind, itās actually super pleasant.
- Roost - weāre currently wrapped up with Dry Heat out of AZ, but we have 5-6 active Roosters, but a good group of 8-12 guys in the rotation to play almost every weekend and randomly throughout the week. This thread is I, and a few others, actually met each other and found our friend group. Our golf crew is alive and well. (side bar, if/when we get enough guys, we might break off and start our own UT roost - TBD, donāt tell anyone yet
haha).
Places to live - Sugarhouse is definitely the most popular spot at the moment, but your dollar doesnāt get you much there. The normal āadviceā is stay east of I-15. Holladay is cool, Cottonwood Heights is nice, and I spent a while in Sandy as well and loved it there.
Feel free to DM me if you have any other questions!
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Iām not the nomad that @ComfyDouble is but thatās because Salt Lake has been home for 36 years now. I consider myself an avid golfer not a sicko so I typically shut it down between mid-November and mid-March. I can confirm the muni golf is cheap and plentiful. Having explored the private scene I can confidently tell you no, there is no private golf with an initiation fee of around 20k around here unfortunately.
I live in the north east corner of the valley near the University of Utah. If I were just moving to town I would start looking around in Holladay or Millcreek area.
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Ditto what @ComfyDouble and @AOkland said on the golf front.
I live in Sugar House and like it a lot. The area is going through some growing pains so there are some construction headaches and things like that for the next year or two probably. The positives; there are a few bars, restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores and parks within a 1.5 - 2 mile area so I donāt really use my car for many things other than golf or going to the mountains. If youāre looking for similar things to that, 9th and 9th is where I used to live and it checks those boxes too.
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