THE GOLF CLUB AT HEATHER RIDGE
🇺🇸 Aurora, CO, USA
Designed by Dick Phelps


Heather Ridge sits in Aurora, Colorado, a suburban community east of Denver along the Front Range corridor. Designed by Dick Phelps and opened in the late 1960s, the course reflects the era's approach to public golf development on the High Plains, where relatively flat terrain and open exposure to wind and weather shape the playing experience. The layout occupies land that transitions between residential neighborhoods, characteristic of courses built during Colorado's suburban expansion.
The routing works across gently rolling terrain with minimal elevation change, though the mile-high altitude affects distance and ball flight as it does throughout the Denver metropolitan area. Water features come into play on several holes, and mature cottonwoods and other plantings provide definition and occasional shelter from the persistent winds that sweep across this part of the Front Range. The course serves as an accessible daily-fee facility in a region where public golf options have historically been important to the local golfing population.
Heather Ridge has functioned primarily as a neighborhood course, providing straightforward golf for residents and visitors in the Aurora area. The design emphasizes playability over severe challenge, with wide fairways and greens sized for steady pace of play. Its location within the greater Denver golf market places it among numerous courses serving the region's year-round players, who navigate the balance of Colorado's high-altitude conditions and variable mountain-influenced weather patterns.
Reviews
Bad staff, bad design, way too short. Played it 5-6 times thinking I may change my mind and it’s worse every time.
FAQ
Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Heather Ridge at The Golf Club at Heather Ridge has a Course Vaults score of 4.6 out of 10 based on 8 explicit golfer ratings.
Heather Ridge was designed by Dick Phelps.
Yes. Heather Ridge at The Golf Club at Heather Ridge is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.
Par at Heather Ridge is 70.
Heather Ridge plays 6,106 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at Heather Ridge is 127.