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Fossil Trace Golf Club is an 18-hole municipal course in Golden, Colorado.

Designed by Jim Engh. It plays 6,798 yards from the Black tees, rated 72/141 (checked 2026-08-21).

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18
holes
72
par
6,798
yards (tips)
141
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES57532015148096409377412626333186585394231565160356542152433445364748495104113125134143155163174185PAROUT 3,446 YDSIN 3,352 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer
Jim Engh reported
access
municipal
address
3050 Illinois St, Golden, CO 80401, USA
phone
202-507-2917
elevation
5,875 ft derived
opened
2003
on site
driving range · lessons

39.73748, -105.21169 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 24 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

227 traced features across 8 layers for Fossil Trace Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery.

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227 traced features across 8 layers for Fossil Trace Golf Club, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
24
Fairways
39
Bunkers
12
Water
18
Greens
70
Tee pads
156.8ft
Elevation range
6,798yds
Black tees
626yds
Longest hole
96yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-09-19

Height5755.3 ft5912.1 ft

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

Yardagesfrom the clubchecked 2026-08-21

All 12 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 12 rows, showing the start of the table.

BlackM72679872.014134463352
T-RexM72657770.913633203257
T-RexF72657775.215233203257
BlueF72624175.215231493092
BlueM72624168.913031493092
TrikeF72593373.314629372988
TrikeM72593367.812129372988
WHITE72555928112748
WHITEM72555966.211428112748
WhiteF72555971.113828032748
PalmF72519769.412826082589
GoldF72468167.011524252256

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardfrom the clubchecked 2026-08-21

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 543434445435435345 72
WHITE 49127111938399339279317513270126507331172480128276458 5,559
Black 57532015148096409377412626333186585394231565160356542 6,798
T-Rex 54432015142695409377372626333186545394205536160356542 6,577
Blue 54429713542695372338372570305154545381205536141320505 6,241
Trike 49129713538391372338317513305154507381172503141320505 5,933
White 49127111938391339279317513270126507331172480128276458 5,559
Palm 4472711193309133927927445827012646233198480128276418 5,197
Gold 4472319133091277226274458202994622599840991218418 4,681
Handicap 313155179117110164814218126

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Fossil Trace Golf Club hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. The greens on 16 of its 18 holes were surveyed, so it reads their slope there too.

  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Fossil Trace Golf Club's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Applewood Golf Course (3.4 mi) · Sleeping Indian Cottonwood at West Woods Golf Club (5.6 mi) · Cottonwood Silo at West Woods Golf Club (5.6 mi) · Silo Sleeping Indian at West Woods Golf Club (5.6 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

FigureThis courseIn ColoradoNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,798 yds=134th of 241=3,563rd of 12,025=49th of 77 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · 53rd of 268 municipal courses · 1,685th of 7,004 courses you can book · =3,538th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 141=44th of 208=777th of 8,710=14th of 73 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · 8th of 182 municipal courses · =286th of 4,936 courses you can book · =760th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 72.0=111th of 188=4,008th of 7,615=41st of 67 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · =56th of 146 municipal courses · =1,846th of 4,145 courses you can book · =3,966th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,117 yds between tees77th of 2331,707th of 11,52327th of 73 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · 22nd of 249 municipal courses · 807th of 6,653 courses you can book · 1,670th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 2003=205th of 233=8,576th of 9,36871st of 77 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · =193rd of 217 municipal courses · =5,070th of 5,526 courses you can book · =6,366th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level5,875 ft derived 117th of 244246th of 12,43718th of 77 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · 8th of 280 municipal courses · 124th of 7,274 courses you can book · 178th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress4 of 7 built

4 of 7 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 12 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 11 sets of tees.
  • Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
  • Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
  • Green contours, partly built.Contours on 17 greens, 12 of them surveyed too thinly to trust and 1 more the survey is too coarse to measure at all.
  • Green slope and pin positions, not built yet.We haven't worked out the fall lines and pin positions on these greens yet.
  • Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-30. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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