1000 Hummingbird Drive,
Castle Rock, Colorado 80108
The Course:
18 holes. Tree-lined parkland. Undulating terrain, several slopes to climb.
Surroundings:
Woodland and high-end residential.
Designer:
A Jack Nicklaus Signature Design; modifications by Jack Nicklaus & Jim Lipe (2015).
39.441173
-104.898759
7 mi NW of Castle Rock / 26 mi S of downtown Denver.
Castle Pines
The private Castle Pines Golf Club is home to one of the top-rated and finest championship golf courses in Colorado. The excellent tree-lined parkland layout, designed by Jack Nicklaus, contains a wealth of wonderfully crafted, memorable and challenging holes. Definitely a course that will challenge your all-round game.
Restricted access: This private course is generally playable only by members and their invited guests.
Private club - guests may only play if hosted by a member.
Excellent
Castle Pines played host to The International, a PGA Tour event, between 1986 and 2006. Greg Norman, Davis Love III, Jose Maria Olazabal, Lee Janzen, Phil Mickelson, Vijay Singh, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen were among the winners during the events 21-year history at Castle Pines. (See our Tournaments section >by Venue >Castle Pines).
2019/20 Golf Digest rating: 48th best course in the USA and 2nd best in Colorado.
Tournaments:
Women’s major championships: the month of June sees two women’s majors: the US Women’s Open (June 3-6), with A Lim Kim defending, and the Women’s PGA Championship (June 24-27), with Sei Young Kim defending.
Senior PGA Championship: the revered Southern Hills in Oklahoma hosts the 81st staging of this event (May 27-30); Ken Tanigawa holds the title from its last playing in 2019.
Who's Who:
Phil Mickelson: in winning the 2021 PGA Championship, the world’s most famous “leftie” became the oldest winner of a golf major championship.
Hideki Matsuyama: became the first Japanese professional to win a men’s major championship, when he triumphed in this year’s Masters Tournament.
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
American Dunes opens for play following Nicklaus transformation
Nicklaus Design has transformed the former Grand Haven Golf Club in Michigan into the American Dunes Golf Club, a new public course that is now open for play
New course opens for play at Barnbougle
Bill Coore designs 14-hole layout with “sporty” holes on dune ridge above Lost Farm (golf carts allowed).
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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