Playing Golf in Santa Fe
Golfing in Santa Fe and the area is a real treat. Because many Indian Pueblos have spent millions on creating golf courses and resorts locally, some of the most beautiful and rewarding golf is in this area.
If you are just making a quick visit to the area, and want to get in a quick game, the municipal golf and local club offer that for you as well.
Below are a sampling of golf facilities to check out on your next visit to Santa Fe and the area.
Isleta Eagle Golf Course
Twenty-seven holes of enchanting chills and challenge designed around three lakes and the sweeping Rio Grande River are waiting for you at the classic links/native desert style Isleta Eagle Golf Course.
Conceived by golf professionals and brought to you by the Pueblo of Isleta, the Isleta Eagle combines the best that Mother Nature and modern golf course technology have to offer. The Isleta Eagle features a complete staff of top professionals to provide a superior level of service.
The Eagle’s Nest restaurant serves breakfast, lunches consisting of sandwiches and burger choices, and salads.
According to Mike Ciolek General Manger of Isleta his course offers the opportunity of 3 combinations of 18 hole courses that make Isleta unique in the area.
Lessons are available by the pros on staff. There is a range, putting green, and chipping green to get your practice in before you choose your course.
After golfing you can try your hand at the Casino across the street for your nighttime activity.
A RV park is also on the pueblo of Isleta.
Fees
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M -Th $38 includes the cart
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F- S and holidays $50 includes the cart
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Senior Rates M- Th $26
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Weekends $30
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9 hole
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$26 weekdays
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$30 weekends and Holidays
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After 3:00
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M- Th $26
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F- S and Holidays $30
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Junior (after 1:00)
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M-F $18
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Weekends and holidays $21
The other benefit about being on this beautiful pueblo besides the views is that there is no tax.
Isleta Eagle Golf Course is just 10 minutes south of Albuquerque or 80 minutes from Santa Fe.
www.isletaeagle.com
888.293.9146
Marty Sanchez Links de Santa Fe Golf Course
This is a 27 hole course in Santa Fe where you can get in a quick game.
The terrain is unique for golfers from other parts of the world because it has been built around Pinon trees unique to this area. There is also a beautiful view of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Tony Hidalgo the General Manager at this course says the unique thing about his course is that there is a challenge for everyone because there are different level tee boxes at each tee. This gives everyone a chance to play on their level.
Lessons are provides here at the course, and there is a snack bar for refreshments.
Fees
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Beginning August 1
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$31 all days
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$43 with cart
505 955 4400
Santa Fe Country Club
This old style Park Land Golf Course is one of the few places in this area you will find Elm trees and that is what General Manager Dennis Kuckelman is proud of on his course. Here there is grass fairways tee to green (also unique in this area)
It is a semi private club so a visitor can find availability on this course.
There are 18 holes, a driving range, practice green, and a putting green.
Lessons are available.
A snack bar is open for visitors.
The only day there is no availability is Monday when the course is set up for tournaments for local non profit organizations.
Fees
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Weekdays $30
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Weekends $40
505 471 0601
Black Mesa Golf Club 
This course has been built on the Santa Clara Pueblo. Like the other courses built on pueblos they are tax free.
This course is designed by architect Baxter Spann, "could very well turn out to be the finest course, public or private, in the state," according to Golf Digest.
The course plays through dramatic sandstone ridges with Black Mesa visible from several locations. Each hole is different, featuring characteristics that make each one both strategic and memorable in its own unique way.
The 18-hole site showcases distinctive bunkering, native arroyos as hazards, and green contouring in keeping with the scale of the natural landforms
Black Mesa has a wild Irish links look to it, particularly in the spring after a wet winter when the native grasses are leafy and blowing in the breeze. In addition, the course was designed to be fun and challenging in both calm and windy conditions
While Black Mesa Golf Club is walk able they have provided for your convenience state-of-the-art GPS carts The top of the line carts provide for every amenity possible like calling ahead to the grill and asking for support from the pro shop.
Lessons are available and junior golf camps are also a part of this club.
Black Mesa Grill has a peaceful setting in the patio for it dining. There is also a full service bar here.
Tee times must be made two weeks in advance
Fees
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Non Residents always pay $50 with a $15 cart rental
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Residents of New Mexico
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Weekdays $36 with a $15 cart rental fee
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Weekends $40 with a $15 cart rental fee
Black Mesa is only about 30 minutes north of Santa Fe off Hwy 399
www.blackmesagolfclub.com (reservations can be made on the site)
505 747 8946
Black Mesa is another beautiful course developed in the true nature of New Mexico.
Twin Warriors Golf Club
The people of Santa Ana believe the Twin Warriors showed them the path to the Upper World along the banks of the Rio Grande. Today, this sacred area borders one of the Southwest's finest golf courses. Designed and developed with meticulous care and cultural sensitivity, the Twin Warriors Golf Club offers both the championship golfer and the resort-style golfer a unique high-desert golfing experience.
Twin Warriors Golf Club is eighteen holes of high desert, championship golf routed in and around 20 ancient cultural sites of previous habitation and activity. The course has beautiful grassy knolls and ridges dotted with Juniper and Pinon Pine. Wonderful dry washes known as arroyo’s and eroded land features, along with the sacred butte known as Tuyuna or “Snakehead” complete a picture framed by spectacular views of the Sandia Mountain.
The beautiful Tamaya Resort of which twin Warriors Golf Club is a part of can gives you a golfing experience you won’t forget.
A golfer need not be staying at the resort to enjoy the course.
But if you are staying at the resort the full experience would start with shuttle service to the golf course where a staff member will greet you. The staff member will check you in and direct you to a GPS equipped golf cart.
Each golf cart will also be equipped with yardage books, a scorecard and pencil, ball mark repair tools, tees, ball markers, a beverage cooler, a club and ball washer, and towels for your comfort.
At the practice facility, the range attendants will greet you and move your clubs from the cart to a prepared hitting station on the driving range. Approximately, ten minutes prior to your tee-time, when you have finished warming up, you will then be introduced to the starter before moving to the first tee.
At the first tee, the starter will advise you as to which tee to play based on your ability, notify you of any unusual conditions on the golf course, and demonstrate the use of the GPS system.
There will be three golf course ambassadors on the golf course; one each on holes one through six, seven through twelve, and thirteen through eighteen. The golf course ambassadors will assists you with any needs you may have while on the golf course. The ambassador can assist you with raking bunkers, replace divots, repair ball marks, contacting the beverage cart and provide you with cool moist towels on hot days.
Upon your return to the golf shop, you will be presented with a custom bag tag engraved with your name. You can then enjoy the hospitality at the Atush Bar and Grille. When you are ready to depart, you will be shuttled back to the resort.
The practice facilities include a world-class driving range, two short game practice areas, practice putting green, private teaching area and learning center
There is a bar and grill to relax after the game or stop midgame and enjoy.
The Atush Bar and Grill offers sandwiches, burgers and salads with a full bar.
The Prairie Star Restaurant at the resort would be a great dinner experience where everyone can celebrate the game for the day or meet up with the non golfers.
This four star restaurant is where you can take in the majestic views of the Sandia Mountains as you sample the award winning southwestern style food prepared by expert chefs.
Fees
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Resident fees all days of the week thru Nov*.
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$75 with cart before 2:00pm
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$60 without cart before 2:00pm
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$60 with cart after 2:00pm
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$45 without cart after 200pm
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Non resident fees all days of the week thru Nov*.
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$125 before 2:00pm includes cart
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$80 after 2:00pm includes cart
Tamaya Resort & Spa, a golf and spa resort located on the Native American Pueblo of Santa Ana. Just 20 minutes from Albuquerque and 40 minutes from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Hyatt Regency Tamaya.
www.twinwarriorsgolf.com
505-771-6155.
Golfing at Twin Warriors can be an all inclusive resort experience, or a great golf experience- you choose.
Call for winter fees
505-771-6155.
Santa Ana Golf Club is the award winning sister course to Twin Warriors Golf Club. The course is ranked in the prestigious top 100 in the country by both Golf Digest and Golfweek
The Santa Ana Golf Club is a daily fee golf course - only one fee for the entire day! The golf course offers the glorious natural splendor of the Santa Ana Pueblo. Located north of Albuquerque, NM and woven through the desert along the Rio Grande, it is surrounded by the grandeur of the Jemez Mountains to the west, the Sangre de Cristos to the north, and the Sandia Mountains immediately east, offering a spectacular view of the 10,000-foot Sandia Peak. Native grasses, subtle mounding and eight crystal-blue lakes will inspire and challenge you to play your best.
www.SantaAnaGolf.com
So if you have a full day to take away from your visit to Santa Fe, or need to stay close and can only take off a few hours, Santa Fe offers the variety to its golfing visitors. We hope to see you out on the green!
Eileen Richardson - from The Santa Fe Site
