I've never played here, but I've played both The Ridge at Castle Pines and Sanctuary, which are extremely close to this course. Gorgeous views. Amazing area. This is my favorite style of golf course. Lots of bends and curves and TONS of elevation change tee to green. I can't comprehend all the negative comments on this video. A golf course couldn't get any more perfect for my eye.
I live about 5 miles away and will be there volunteering for the 2024 BMW Championship in a couple weeks. Long time golfer, but my first time ever seeing this course in person, and with the best in the world playing it on top of it!
The fact you are a golf enthusiast, live 5 miles away and have never been there depresses me. Private clubs tend to rip away the opportunity of the Everyman to experience these types of courses.
What's up with all the hate on this course? It looks beautiful and you can see it was designed with risk reward holes. It has shot value designed into it and it appears that its a course designed to be difficult but fair. I would love to play this course and i can see why it has some fans.
Maybe it's just me, but I think they should have kept the gulch on those opening holes. Way more interesting, both visually and for play, than manufactured ponds.
I play at castle pines. Y’all have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m cracking up at you fools talk about the gulches. No one liked them. You guys can keep crying and playing at your public courses.
It’s a pretty course. I haven’t seen it since the international days when I would go watch in my high school years. It’ll be interesting to see how it plays with new structure and hear what the Tour Pros have to say about it.
Setting up grandstands wayyyyy too close to the green on the Par 5 14th (and alot of other holes too), no doubt we’ll have some questionable relief points taken😪
Maybe a whole series of European courses beyond The Open. Like Crans-sur-sierre, The Belfry Brabazon, Wentworth West (if you can get on to film), Valderrama
Looks interesting with the elevation changes but probably easy? course for pros considering the altitude. A lot of risk reward shots apparently. Dont understand the hate on fake ponds/water hazards, etc. What are your opinions about Sawgrass for example? It is an extremely “fake” course but spectacular at the same time. Lets see how pros play it and maybe it is shows some more interesting things not shown in the video.
A couple things elevate Sawgrass well above this place in my mind. 1) Sawgrass is on a dead-flat swamp, necessitating earth movement to create interesting features. Castle Pines is on terrain full of incredible natural features that the golf course makes poor use of. 2) the artificial features at Sawgrass look like something only Pete Dye could build. They don’t look real but they look incredible. The fake features at Castle Pines look like those at any other resort course.
@@CharacterCow Completely correct. To compare water features in a Florida swamp with beautiful terrain in Colorado makes no sense. And even if Diego wants to play that game, Castle Pines STILL has more greens hard against the water than Sawgrass! The back 9 at Sawgrass originally had 3 greens up against water, then they modified 16 so it became 4 greens, then they blew up the 12th so it became 5 greens. Dye had nothing to do with 12 so I honestly don't even consider it. I am not a fan of the new 12th, or a fan of what Sawgrass has become in general. I would like it to return to its original vision which had more to do with Pine Valley than Augusta.
TPC is a Pete Dye, he uses a lot of geometric shapes which are more interesting. Also, It's Florida. There aren't any hills in Florida, and tons of swamps.
I struggle to understand the adulation this place gets. Looks like a mismatched cross between stadium golf and development golf. Considering the incredible site it occupies, there isn’t a natural looking feature on this golf course. Why they keep replacing the ravines with ponds or turfing over the barrancas is beyond me.
@@halkyles9507 Augusta and Castle Pines aren't even in the same league, but to a certain degree, sure, some of the same commentary applies. The original course Mackenzie and Jones built at Augusta was rough and naturalistic, but Mackenzie's rugged bunkering has since been replaced by giant perfect oval bunkering, and many once-natural features have been replaced with artificial ones (for example, the creeks left of the green at 11 and fronting the greens at 15 and 16 were replaced with artificial ponds, very reminiscent of the fake ponds at Castle Pines). Of course, the observation about development and stadium golf don't apply as Augusta generally predates both of those concepts.
This feels like Castle Pines paid advertising or something. Looks like such an unnatural, ticky tack course. No doubt in person it’s gorgeous but all the out of place water hazards make it feel run of the mill if you remove the obviously good conditioning.
Respectfully, 16 is visually terrible. The whole course feels like it wants to be something far more than it is. It’s so unnatural it reminds me of when people turn their attached garage space into living space and they try and patch the brick siding where the garage door formally was but it doesn’t quite match and it’s super obvious but no one wants to say anything or pay for the entire house to be re-sided so we just make do.
@@picardmadeoff1068 ooooh that was a good one. Love a sensitive response to an opinion. Maybe you’ve got a bit of buyers remorse yourself after that initiation fee? We all know there are superior courses for far less initiation fees and dues. I’m sure others enjoy the course and they aren’t wrong for it.
As a members family member, we love hearing people talk about the hole 2 and 3 gulch. In person, the water looks way better. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
@@FightForFreedom24 and as someone who's played both the cc and the golf club dozens of times.... we can agree to disagree, perhaps that not in your vocab. good day.
@@FightForFreedom24 I don't need to ride the coat tails of anyone else as.. a guest. you seem to know everything, so I'll let you figure it out. take care now.
No idea how this is ranked in the Top 50. This is perhaps the worst looking course in this Every Hole series. I lost count at the number of fake looking water hazards hard against greens. For Jim Nantz to even mention this course in the same sentence as The National Golf Links is basically sacrilege.
Hahahahaha. Drenched in drama, castle pines vs Augusta national, what course is better😂😂😂 the left rough forged by millions of years of running water... Haha wtf?
It really is an attempt to build an Augusta in Colorado. Given the different landscape and climate, there can be very different opinions about how well that works.
Well it is indeed a boring course unless you're an average golfer who struggles to keep your drives in the fairway and cannot control every iron in your bag...yep, it is boring alright! And then of course, if you are not a stellar putter, it becomes truly interesting. Don't worry, you're unlikely to ever receive an invite to play the course
I've never played here, but I've played both The Ridge at Castle Pines and Sanctuary, which are extremely close to this course. Gorgeous views. Amazing area. This is my favorite style of golf course. Lots of bends and curves and TONS of elevation change tee to green. I can't comprehend all the negative comments on this video. A golf course couldn't get any more perfect for my eye.
I live about 5 miles away and will be there volunteering for the 2024 BMW Championship in a couple weeks. Long time golfer, but my first time ever seeing this course in person, and with the best in the world playing it on top of it!
The fact you are a golf enthusiast, live 5 miles away and have never been there depresses me. Private clubs tend to rip away the opportunity of the Everyman to experience these types of courses.
I have a ticket for Sunday and am dying to walk the course.
@@Ragin0Cajun This place is super exclusive and this is the only chance many of us are going to get to walk this track.
@@Ragin0Cajun As it should be, members have zero interest in an everyman 5 hour round of golf.
What's up with all the hate on this course? It looks beautiful and you can see it was designed with risk reward holes. It has shot value designed into it and it appears that its a course designed to be difficult but fair. I would love to play this course and i can see why it has some fans.
What a gorgeous course! I wish I could play someday. The pros are so good I'm sure they'll shoot 15-18 under....
Maybe it's just me, but I think they should have kept the gulch on those opening holes. Way more interesting, both visually and for play, than manufactured ponds.
Typical Nicklaus cookie-cutter holes
agreed, those ponds look terrible. so artificial.
I play at castle pines. Y’all have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m cracking up at you fools talk about the gulches. No one liked them. You guys can keep crying and playing at your public courses.
As a Colorado resident, we truly have some of the best courses anywhere in the world. I don’t know why the PGA doesn’t have more tournaments here.
It’s a pretty course. I haven’t seen it since the international days when I would go watch in my high school years.
It’ll be interesting to see how it plays with new structure and hear what the Tour Pros have to say about it.
Setting up grandstands wayyyyy too close to the green on the Par 5 14th (and alot of other holes too), no doubt we’ll have some questionable relief points taken😪
Water features out here are bruuuuuutal. How could you get rid of that beautiful barranca?
Is it possible to turn up the saturation at this point?
Good God what a beautiful golf course.
Should be a great weekend coming up.
Would be fantastic if Royal County Down was done before the Irish Open
Careful what you wish for 😉
Maybe a whole series of European courses beyond The Open. Like Crans-sur-sierre, The Belfry Brabazon, Wentworth West (if you can get on to film), Valderrama
@@GolfDigestcoming this week???
@@bartsimho1192Why did you choose only bad ones? (Maybe except Valderrama)
Why is Jim Nantz talking like a guy impersonating Jim Nantz
Hey does anybody know what those black streaks in the middle of some of the fairways are?
Soil filled divots that were mowed over
Divot fillings with a heavier mixture of topsoil is my guess. Streaks caused by mowing over the fillings
I’m so terrible it would take me 10 shots just to reach the green on those 600 yard par 5s. 😂😂
This narration reminds me of a mandatory people and culture training video
Nantz isn't a GCA guy
Too many ponds now.
Looks worth playing. Probably not worth going to play.
how far does the ball fly? pros prolly gonna driver wedge this to death
They won’t event need driver 😂
the course is 8100 yards, wont be driver wedge
@@owen7803 equal to about 7,350 yards at sea level.
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Looks interesting with the elevation changes but probably easy? course for pros considering the altitude. A lot of risk reward shots apparently.
Dont understand the hate on fake ponds/water hazards, etc. What are your opinions about Sawgrass for example? It is an extremely “fake” course but spectacular at the same time. Lets see how pros play it and maybe it is shows some more interesting things not shown in the video.
A couple things elevate Sawgrass well above this place in my mind. 1) Sawgrass is on a dead-flat swamp, necessitating earth movement to create interesting features. Castle Pines is on terrain full of incredible natural features that the golf course makes poor use of. 2) the artificial features at Sawgrass look like something only Pete Dye could build. They don’t look real but they look incredible. The fake features at Castle Pines look like those at any other resort course.
@@CharacterCow Completely correct. To compare water features in a Florida swamp with beautiful terrain in Colorado makes no sense. And even if Diego wants to play that game, Castle Pines STILL has more greens hard against the water than Sawgrass! The back 9 at Sawgrass originally had 3 greens up against water, then they modified 16 so it became 4 greens, then they blew up the 12th so it became 5 greens. Dye had nothing to do with 12 so I honestly don't even consider it. I am not a fan of the new 12th, or a fan of what Sawgrass has become in general. I would like it to return to its original vision which had more to do with Pine Valley than Augusta.
TPC is a Pete Dye, he uses a lot of geometric shapes which are more interesting. Also, It's Florida. There aren't any hills in Florida, and tons of swamps.
I struggle to understand the adulation this place gets. Looks like a mismatched cross between stadium golf and development golf. Considering the incredible site it occupies, there isn’t a natural looking feature on this golf course. Why they keep replacing the ravines with ponds or turfing over the barrancas is beyond me.
You have obviously never played the course. So many idiots making stupid claims!!
Interesting. Do you say the same about Augusta National?
@@halkyles9507 Augusta and Castle Pines aren't even in the same league, but to a certain degree, sure, some of the same commentary applies. The original course Mackenzie and Jones built at Augusta was rough and naturalistic, but Mackenzie's rugged bunkering has since been replaced by giant perfect oval bunkering, and many once-natural features have been replaced with artificial ones (for example, the creeks left of the green at 11 and fronting the greens at 15 and 16 were replaced with artificial ponds, very reminiscent of the fake ponds at Castle Pines). Of course, the observation about development and stadium golf don't apply as Augusta generally predates both of those concepts.
This feels like Castle Pines paid advertising or something. Looks like such an unnatural, ticky tack course. No doubt in person it’s gorgeous but all the out of place water hazards make it feel run of the mill if you remove the obviously good conditioning.
Maybe someday you'll have the opportunity to actually play the course and then you can laugh at your inaccurate comment
Respectfully, 16 is visually terrible.
The whole course feels like it wants to be something far more than it is.
It’s so unnatural it reminds me of when people turn their attached garage space into living space and they try and patch the brick siding where the garage door formally was but it doesn’t quite match and it’s super obvious but no one wants to say anything or pay for the entire house to be re-sided so we just make do.
We understand that you cannot afford the membership much less know anyone who might sponsor you to join the club
@@picardmadeoff1068 ooooh that was a good one. Love a sensitive response to an opinion. Maybe you’ve got a bit of buyers remorse yourself after that initiation fee? We all know there are superior courses for far less initiation fees and dues.
I’m sure others enjoy the course and they aren’t wrong for it.
Hole 2 and 3 were so much better before the remodel... shame.
As a members family member, we love hearing people talk about the hole 2 and 3 gulch. In person, the water looks way better. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
@@FightForFreedom24 and as someone who's played both the cc and the golf club dozens of times.... we can agree to disagree, perhaps that not in your vocab. good day.
@@devilsthumb I’m sure you have played the Golf Club. Whose guest?
@@FightForFreedom24 I don't need to ride the coat tails of anyone else as.. a guest. you seem to know everything, so I'll let you figure it out. take care now.
Everything about this course screams tacky
You have obviously never played golf
@@FightForFreedom24 I see you’re responding to everyone hating on this stupid course. Lol your club sucks
I was there today. Course is absolutely beautiful. It's in a really cool setting in the foothills of the rocky mountains.
Absolutely gorgeous
No idea how this is ranked in the Top 50. This is perhaps the worst looking course in this Every Hole series. I lost count at the number of fake looking water hazards hard against greens. For Jim Nantz to even mention this course in the same sentence as The National Golf Links is basically sacrilege.
Obviously you have never seen this course in person. One of the best courses in the state of Colorado.
Stupid idiotic comment. Have you ever been to Colorado? Thought so…..
Says the clown with the 25 handicap
Yeah he has zero idea what he’s talking about. This is one of the best courses in the country.
You could’ve simply said you’re dumb instead (and probably a 17 handicap).
Is this AI Jim Nantz?
They sure have upped his hyperbole.
Hahahahaha. Drenched in drama, castle pines vs Augusta national, what course is better😂😂😂 the left rough forged by millions of years of running water... Haha wtf?
It really is an attempt to build an Augusta in Colorado. Given the different landscape and climate, there can be very different opinions about how well that works.
Honestly. this looks like a pretty boring course.
Yes, it's so boring that it's spectacular and one of the best courses in Colorado. Mull on that as you play your local muni course tomorrow. Cheers.
Clearly never seen it in person
Thank Jack Nicholaus
Handicap 25
Well it is indeed a boring course unless you're an average golfer who struggles to keep your drives in the fairway and cannot control every iron in your bag...yep, it is boring alright! And then of course, if you are not a stellar putter, it becomes truly interesting. Don't worry, you're unlikely to ever receive an invite to play the course
Definitely one of the weakest courses in the series. And so many great courses the haven’t been featured yet…😢
Castle pines is a dumb name for a country club
What an insult? It’s not a country club, it’s a golf club. Get educated before you make false, unwarranted claims.
@@FightForFreedom24 lol butthurt much? I guarantee I am more educated than you. Like I will put money on it.