Red Hawk Ridge Golf Course

Pricey for a junior to get on in the summer on a weekday it took 3.5 hours to play 9 holes because a charity event was out in front of us. Hard to walk but its a nice facility.

Great course. I played here last week and i thought it was very well maintained.

Best course in Castle Rock, fairways are great greens are in perfect shape. Very affordable.

Red Hawk Ridge is a fantastic golf course for all levels of golfers. A municipal golf course that is taken care of like a private club. Value. Value. Value. This is a shorter course (6900 tips) and longer hitters will leave driver in the bag much of the round. However, many holes require precision and shot making. Only downfalls are cart paths are gravel/​dirt for 80% of the course and are covered in potholes and many people playing the course fail to fix ball marks.

Thank you Red Hawk Ridge for an amazing couple of days of golf your service was awesome your beverage cart girl becky was great and the course was the awesome. THANKS Jeff Colella for shooting under par the whole trip

I really enjoyed this golf course. Every employee I came across was friendly and very helpful. The course itself was beautiful. It’s in very good shape and there are some wonderful spots on this course to get a view of the Rockies or the city of Castle Rock. For the most part it’s a fairly short course, but there are a couple holes that are plenty long and will give you everything you want out of a golf hole. The green fee is what keeps me from going to 5 stars. Some courses are worth $ 70 plus, but this one isn’t. $ 40 or $ 50 in the summer and they might have something.

This is a beautiful course. It’s March so the course was not in top shape and Hole 7 was being aerated but that is to be expected this time of year. Every employee we came in to contact with was very helpful. This could be a very difficult course to navigate if you have any sort of disability or aren’t in the best shape. With the 90* cart rule you spend lots of time walking rolling hills to your ball where the cart can’t access. Overall a great place to play.

Great course for the money. A few beautiful holes (especially 13 and 14) and a layout that mixes drivable par 4s and with long, uphill ones.
Loved the layout, my only complaint was some of the houses were a bit too close to the course for my tastes. Still highly recommended.

A very good golf course, nice views, fast greens, even in March.
Be warned, there is so much wind and so much elevation change, yardages are out the window. Example, 14 is a 218 yard par 3. severely downhill, and with the wind. I judged it to be a 3 club difference, and hit 7. flew everything. I played a provi and hit WEDGE to the middle of the green. Example #2. #7 is a 600+ par 5, uphill and into that wind. I went driver, 3 wood, 3 wood, and was still 80 yards short of the green.

Agree with the previous reviewer, the course is fun, although a little short… but the course is not worth what the Town of Castle Rock charges. It’s impossible to get your kids to play here when the rounds are over $ 55.

Actually, I would give the course 3 ½ stars, but there is no provision for ½ stars in the rating system. So, I will stretch it to a 4. This is another Jim Engh course and it has the usual Jim Engh signatures that I am not that fond of. Example: most par 3’s are bowls with high sides that could be difficult to navigate if the golfer has problems with their legs or feet and impossible for some older golfers of those with disabilities. That being said, the course is in very good condition and very playable. The green fees are a bit high for the experience, about $ 65 to walk, and walking will make you appreciate a couch when you finally finish the round and find one. About the 4^th hole I remarked that this must be the highest point on the course… wrong, oh, how wrong. The course made a steady and sometime dramatic climb that tested my ability to push a golf cart. However, the higher I climbed the better was the view. I can tell that years ago, the view of Castle Rock must have been quite spectacular. Now much of it is covered with houses, townhouses, business centers, shopping malls and other development. Even some of the outer reaches of the course have signs stating that future home development is planned.
But back to the golf. The layout is interesting with a variety of holes, the course is fair and not difficult for most level of players. First time players should not have much of a problem figuring out where to hit their tee shot or where the green is located. Practice facilities (driving range and practice green are about normal but more courses should include range balls with green fees. You may want to take a cart as I have mentioned, walking is only for those prepared for a real hike at over 6000 ft. elevation. Weather can be a factor and I can attest to that. Clouds, thunder, rain and lightening made us dash to the clubhouse after hole 15 and remain there for almost an hour before going back out to finish. Clubhouse is about average, staff is friendly and helpful.
All in all, an enjoyable course. If the rates were a bit less, I would consider to play there more, or again. I am concerned that the charm of the course will be diminished with more development directly around it.

Wow. This place is a muni? Good god, I’m tempted to move to Colorado then. Red Hawk Ridge was paid for, built, and is run and maintained by the town of Castle Rock. And it is a gem.
The setting is stunning: Red Hawk is on the outskirts of town, nestled in to some Colorado Rockies foothills, overlooking the valley with I-​25 running through it. The course is gorgeous, and was in great shape. The clubhouse offers great views of #18 & #10, and the staff in the restaurant were attentive and sensitive to my timing needs.
The course is incredibly fun, with lots of elevation changes, and a wide variety of shots off of the tee. I’d love to play it again, knowing now how some of those blind, downhill shots really play. The only downside to the layout was the fact that three of the par 5s play straight uphill. It isn’t until the big, downhill finishing par 5 that you finally get some variety in the par 5s.
Red Hawk Ridge is a really great course, with only two drawbacks: 1) They are building houses right up against some of the holes, 2) pace of play. It took us over five hours to play 18, and that’s just too damn long. We were pushing the group ahead of us from the get go, and they never picked up the pace. Other than that, this was the most fun I’ve had on a golf course yet.
Tip from the locals: always take a club with you when hunting for a ball off of the fairway in case of rattlesnake.
Course design/​playability: 5 stars
Walk-​Ability: 4 stars
Condition/​maintenance: 5 stars
Driving range/​practice area: 4 stars
Pace of play: 3 stars
Avg. wait for tee time: 5 stars
Pro shop staff: 5 stars