University of Denver Golf Club at Highlands Ranch is an 18-hole semi-private course in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.

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holes

par

7,179

yards (tips)

129

slope (irwin/black)

The shape of the round · Irwin/Black teespublished figures only

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: Hale Irwin reported
access: semi-private
address: 9000 Creekside Way, Highlands Ranch, CO 80129, USA
phone: 303-471-0000
website: course site →
elevation: 5,644 ft derived
opened: 2012
turf: bentgrass greens
on site: driving range · restaurant · lessons

39.55313, -105.01466 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 15 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

258 traced features across 8 layers for University of Denver Golf Club at Highlands Ranch, drawn over NAIP 2019 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

195.2ft

Elevation range

7,179yds

Irwin/Black tees

578yds

Longest hole

171yds

Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2019-09-12

Height5451.1 ft5646.4 ft

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 4 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Irwin/Black	M	72	7179	72.9	129	3576	3603
Back/Blue	M	72	6719	70.7	124	3358	3361
Regular/White	M	72	6311	69.0	118
Forward/Red	F	72	5340	70.0	124

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

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	5	4	3	3	4	4	4	5	4	5	4	3	4	4	4	3	5	72
Irwin/Black	435	578	466	185	249	292	428	410	533	434	564	436	171	425	428	442	203	500	7,179
Back/Blue	418	557	446	170	234	273	401	342	517	403	532	385	150	401	410	415	179	486	6,719

We don't hold a stroke index for this course's holes, so that row is not above. The yardages are every figure we hold hole by hole.

No per-hole yardages are published for Regular/White and Forward/Red, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan University of Denver Golf Club at Highlands Ranch 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 Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green 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.

Book a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to University of Denver Golf Club at Highlands Ranch'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: Littleton Golf and Tennis Club (4.2 mi) · The Links Golf Course (5.0 mi) · Raccoon Creek Golf Course (5.3 mi) · Deer Creek Golf Club at Meadow Ranch (6.1 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

Figure	This course	In Colorado	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,179 yds	49th of 241	=724th of 12,025	21st of 77 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · 63rd of 2,030 semi-private courses · 291st of 7,004 courses you can book · =722nd of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 129	=141st of 208	=4,131st of 8,710	=51st of 73 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · =544th of 1,395 semi-private courses · =1,815th of 4,936 courses you can book · =4,016th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 72.9	=70th of 188	=2,810th of 7,615	=24th of 67 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · =341st of 1,141 semi-private courses · =1,220th of 4,145 courses you can book · =2,785th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,839 yds between tees	=108th of 233	=3,211th of 11,523	39th of 73 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · =474th of 1,970 semi-private courses · =1,603rd of 6,653 courses you can book · =3,158th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 2012	228th of 233	=9,192nd of 9,368	77th of 77 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · =1,482nd of 1,516 semi-private courses · =5,436th of 5,526 courses you can book · =6,873rd of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	5,644 ft derived	130th of 244	282nd of 12,437	27th of 77 in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metro area · 32nd of 2,089 semi-private courses · 141st of 7,274 courses you can book · 204th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress5 of 7 built

5 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 2 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 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 16 greens, 6 of them surveyed too thinly to trust and 2 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, built.All 7 background details — architect, year opened, access, contact and grass.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. What's left on this course is ours to build rather than ours to be told — it comes from mapping and survey data, not from a form. Coverage sets out where the whole database stands.

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 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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