The Design

Good golf course design attempts to utilize Mother Nature’s natural geographic features, and many of her finest are incorporated into the Cedar Hills Golf Club site. Transitioning elevation levels are a strong feature of the course layout, with the first tee shot dropping almost 200 feet to the fairway! The design encompasses varied topography and picturesque mountain, canyon, and valley view vistas from the highest point on the 14th green, which is 5,253 feet above sea level, to the American Fork River 750 feet below. In addition, two meandering creeks enhance the landscape.

While taking advantage of Mother Nature’s natural features, there were several man-made obstacles to work around: routing through and around housing envelopes, avoiding a maze of overhead and underground utilities and easements, a major road bisecting a portion of the course, buffer zones dictated by the Fish and Game Department, the steep bluff that bisects the property, several irrigation channels, an old gravel quarry, and a narrow golf envelope on the lower part of the course. Because of these obstacles, it was impossible to design our course with returning nines.

Finding the best location for the clubhouse is usually a difficult challenge. In our case it was an easy choice, and we hope you will agree. The clubhouse sits on a natural bluff, providing golfers the advantage of mountain views to the east, while showcasing panoramic views of the valley floor to the west and south. Locating our clubhouse on this bluff also provides for one of the valley’s best practice putting greens and Utah’s only 170-foot drop tee shot. Adding to the charm of our clubhouse site are the equally notable closing shots on hole eighteen.

Now that we have done our portion of the project, we have returned the course to Mother Nature to work her magic. In a few short years she will blend our new golf course with the surrounding landscape, and the two will become a transparent one again.

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