Ballyneal ranked top golf course in Colorado

The best golf course in the state is right here in Holyoke’s backyard.

Ballyneal Golf Club, located in the sandhills southeast of Holyoke, was ranked No. 1 on Golf Digest’s 2019-2020 Best in State listing for Colorado. Ballyneal rose from the No. 2 spot to bump Castle Pines Golf Club in Castle Rock down one spot.

Others in the top five are Cherry Hills Country Club in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado Golf Club in Parker and Sanctuary in Sedalia.

Golf Digest has been publishing a Best in State ranking every other year since 1977, making this its 22nd edition. A trained panel of more than 1,700 low-handicap golfers continually assess courses throughout the nation.

It takes 25 evaluations accumulated over a 10-year period to qualify for a state ranking, versus 60 evaluations to be considered for Golf Digest’s 100 Greatest U.S. Golf Courses. Ballyneal is No. 46 on that prestigious list.

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