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Desert Lakes Golf Course is an 18-hole municipal course in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

It plays 6,575 yards from the Purple tees, rated 69.8/124 (checked 2026-08-21).

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18
holes
72
par
6,575
yards (tips)
124
slope (purple)
The shape of the round · Purple teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — PURPLE TEES421386563155433283402190480523368398188384336156542367142435435464748395105114124133144154163175184PAROUT 3,313 YDSIN 3,262 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

access
municipal
address
Desert Lakes Road, Alamogordo, NM, 83310
phone
575-437-0290
elevation
4,301 ft derived

32.86037, -105.96252 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes, their lines predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery and numbered against the scorecard. Its greens, fairways, bunkers and water are predicted the same way. The course outline is predicted too, drawn around the predicted holes and wide of the mown ground, so the real property line may sit wider or tighter.

76 features across 6 layers for Desert Lakes Golf Course, all 76 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

Use arrow keys to pan, plus and minus to zoom. Tab reaches the map controls.

76 features across 6 layers for Desert Lakes Golf Course, all 76 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

© OpenStreetMap contributors · Holes and outlines predicted by a model trained on OpenStreetMap data · GeoJSON

Holes and outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

18
Holes · predicted
16
Fairways · predicted
12
Bunkers · predicted
11
Water · predicted
18
Greens · predicted
6,575yds
Purple tees
563yds
Longest hole
155yds
Shortest hole

All 76 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-05-21

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

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

Sorted by Yards, descending. 4 rows.

Purple72657569.812433133262
Blue72619868.111931183080
Tan72579666.411629122884
Orange72513663.811125542582

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

Scorecardreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 445344435544344354 72
Purple 421386563155433283402190480523368398188384336156542367 6,575
Blue 403365543131409272371178446504352376169351323141527337 6,198
Tan 364342525111374261339167429465337364152342297120482325 5,796
Orange 31330346896307237291142397425299313134289287103432300 5,136

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.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Desert Lakes Golf Course hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 76 of its features, all 76 predicted by a model, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • 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

See the courses it plans Open 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 Desert Lakes Golf Course'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: Inn of the Mountain Gods (34 mi) · Cree Meadows Country Club (37 mi) · The Links at Sierra Blanca (38 mi)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn New MexicoNationwideAmong its peers
Longest6,575 yds45th of 87=5,395th of 12,02577th of 268 municipal courses · =2,621st of 7,004 courses you can book · =5,357th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,439 yds between tees=38th of 84=5,846th of 11,523=85th of 249 municipal courses · =3,102nd of 6,653 courses you can book · =5,753rd of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level4,301 ft derived 68th of 88612th of 12,43739th of 280 municipal courses · 331st of 7,274 courses you can book · 454th 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 6 built

4 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 4 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 sets of tees.
  • Course map, built.All 18 holes and their greens are drawn, predicted by a model from aerial imagery and shown over it.
  • Per-hole distances, built.Every hole's line of play is predicted from aerial imagery, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along that predicted line.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.4 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect, the year it opened and 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 2026-08-21. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Nearby courses

Apache Mesa Golf Course

7.5 mi · Holloman Afb · military · 9 holes

Inn of the Mountain Gods

34 mi · Mescalero · resort · 18 holes

Cree Meadows Country Club

37 mi · Ruidoso · semi-private · 18 holes

Innsbrook Village Country Club

38 mi · Ruidoso · 9 holes

The Links at Sierra Blanca

38 mi · Ruidoso · public · 18 holes

Alto Lakes Golf Country Club

41 mi · Alto · private · 18 holes

Kokopelli Club

41 mi · Alto · private · 18 holes

The Outlaw at Alto Lakes

43 mi · Alto · private · 18 holes

Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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