In Todd They Trust

By Jon Rizzi

The 2007 opening of Heritage Todd Creek Golf Club as the anchor of a Lennar Homes development at Highway 7 and Yosemite brought the number of Colorado courses with the Heritage prefix to three. The others: Lennar’s Heritage Eagle Bend Golf Club in Aurora and the City of Westminster’s Heritage Golf Course at Westmoor.

Three was most certainly a crowd. “We would get players who thought they’d made a 2:15 tee time with us but we had no record of it because they’d made it at Westmoor,” says General Manager Robert DeVera, who has been at Todd Creek since day one.

The confusion ends now. Borders Golf, which purchased the facility from Lennar last July, has rechristened the facility Todd Creek Golf Club. With the change comes a crisp new logo, URL, pricing structure and, above all, a commitment to the “country club for a day” experience. “We’re all about trying to attract golfers to the area and create loyalty, says DeVera, who is also one of the partners in Borders. “We’re creating a strong identity.”

They have the facility to do it. The 33,000-square-foot clubhouse can accommodate everything from tournaments, banquets, neighborhood meetings, luncheons, dinners and après-golf cocktails. PGA Head Professional Danny Hughes runs the full-service golf shop and provides instruction on the club’s ample practice area.

Players can put their skills to good use on the Arthur Hills design that tips out at 7,435 yards, and plays a stout 6,950 from the black tees, the length at which teams in this month’s CGA Senior Four-Ball Championship will compete.

They’ll get all they can handle from a deceptively tricky layout that’s forgiving off the tee and far less so heading into enormous greens, which ripple, roll and are protected by more than 11,000-square feet. Doglegs abound. Bunkers appear randomly, their sly placement dictating strategy and decision-making.

The course’s best view comes on the 248-yard, par-three 11th, with the Rockies arising from behind the green. Water factors into six holes, including the 198-yard 17th with its tough peninsula green and the 530-yard finisher, where Smith Reservoir borders the entire left edge of the fairway and a tight, bunker-and-rough-lined neck of fairway leads to the green.

The price of a round at Todd Creek includes cart, GPS, practice balls and plenty of personal attention. The name and ownership may have changed, but the club’s heritage of service and quality remains.

toddcreekgolfclub.com; 720-230-4704.

 

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