Grandote Peaks Golf Club

The Sangre de Cristo Mountains provide a jaw-dropping backdrop to this high-altitude layout where elevation changes of 200 feet between tees and greens make club selection an adventure in mountain mathematics. Designer Ken Dye carved holes through rolling meadowland at 7,400 feet, where your drives carry forever but putting on bentgrass greens demands respect for the mountain winds that howl down from the fourteeners. The par-3 17th plays over a natural ravine with Spanish Peaks looming behind the green—a postcard hole that'll have you checking your camera roll long after you've three-putted.