Ballyneal climbs to No. 44 in Golf Digest’s America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses

Golf Digest recently released its biennial 2021-22 ranking of America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses, and northeast Colorado’s Ballyneal climbed two spots to No. 44.

In fact, Ballyneal is the only course to have constantly risen in the rankings over the past 10 years.

Golf Digest noted that if No. 10 Sand Hills Golf Club stands for the notion that there’s nothing more glorious than a round of golf beyond the range of cell phone reception, then Ballyneal (Tom Doak’s northeast Colorado answer to Nebraska’s Sand Hills) proves that isolated golf is even better when Spartan in nature. With no carts and with dry, tan fescue turf on fairways and greens, Ballyneal is even more austere than Sand Hills. It provides absolutely firm and fast conditions, and with many greens perched on hilltops, the effect of wind on putts must be considered.

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