Colorado Golf & Golf Course Living
What Does Your Golf Lifestyle Look Like?
Golf can influence a real estate decision in very different ways. You may be looking for:
- A home on a golf course with fairway or mountain views
- A home near several golf courses rather than just one
- A private-club community with golf and club life
- Convenient access to public and municipal golf
- An active-adult or socially active community where golf is one of the amenities
- A new-home golf community
- Vacant land to build your custom home
- A golf community for the open space, views and neighborhood setting, even if you never play
We’re a Colorado real estate brokerage with firsthand experience in golf lifestyles and golf course communities, whether golf is a serious part of your life, something you enjoy casually, or simply part of the community and setting you want around you.
You don’t have to want a home on a golf course to want a real estate broker who understands golf.
Colorado Golf May Surprise You
Colorado offers far more golf—and far more variety—than many people realize.
Along the Front Range, golf can be part of your lifestyle for much more of the year than the traditional golf season might suggest. When the sun is shining, the snow is gone and the course is open, Colorado golfers play. Most years, that means playable days along the Front Range throughout the winter.
And in the mountains, when the winter sports wind down, it’s time for fabulous mountain golf—with cooler summer temperatures, dramatic scenery and an entirely different Colorado golf experience.
Colorado golf ranges from municipal and public-play courses to nationally recognized clubs and championship venues. The Front Range has hosted major professional and USGA events, including the BMW Championship at Castle Pines and the U.S. Senior Open at The Broadmoor.
Peter and I have played courses from Fort Collins through the Denver metro area and south toward Colorado Springs, as well as mountain courses. And for the past several years, I’ve managed to play more than 100 rounds a year—so our knowledge of Colorado golf comes from spending quite a bit of time on the courses ourselves –100+ rounds a year and counting.
With more than 240 golf courses across Colorado, there are opportunities to play at nearly every level—from everyday public golf to nationally recognized courses and clubs.
This IS a golfing state.
When Golf Is Part of Your Real Estate Decision
Golf in Colorado isn’t just about where you play. Courses are woven into communities throughout the Front Range, with homes ranging from modest properties to multimillion-dollar luxury homes.
As real estate brokers who are also active Colorado golfers, we understand these communities from both sides. Our real estate experience helps us look beyond the fairway view to the things that can affect the property itself, its value, and how well the community fits the way you want to live.
That might mean understanding the difference between living on a course and living near one; considering errant-ball patterns, doglegs and tee-box locations; looking at course and community ownership; or understanding whether club membership, public access, leagues and other amenities actually fit the lifestyle you have in mind.
We’re not just helping you find a house near golf. We’re helping you understand how the golf, the community and the real estate fit together.
Living On—or Near—a Golf Course
For some buyers, walking out the back door and seeing a fairway is the dream. Others want the golf-course community and views without having their property directly on the course. Both can be great choices—but they aren’t necessarily the same real estate decision.
A golf-course property can offer open views, fewer homes immediately behind you and convenient access to a lifestyle you enjoy. As with any property, the details matter. Early-morning maintenance, cart paths, tournament and league activity, landscaping and course operations, HOA requirements, whether golf privileges are included with the property, and the future of the course or surrounding land are all worth understanding before you buy. A home along a fairway, near a green, beside a tee box or around a dogleg can have very different exposure to errant shots. Sometimes a property that doesn’t appear to back directly to a hole can still be in the flight path.
Golf Course Communities
Golf course communities along Colorado’s Front Range come in many styles, settings and price ranges. But the golf course is only one part of choosing where you want to live.
Where you live still needs to work when you’re not playing golf. Proximity to work and commute routes, shopping, schools, healthcare, restaurants, recreation and the people and places that are important to you can matter just as much as how quickly you can get to the first tee.
And the best choice isn’t necessarily the community with the most prestigious course. It’s the one where the home, location, community and golf lifestyle fit together.
Golf as Social—or as Serious—as You Want It
Colorado golf isn’t only for low-handicap players or private-club members. There are plenty of ways to enjoy the game whether you’re an experienced golfer, just learning, returning after years away, or simply looking for a reason to spend a few hours outside with friends.
Women’s and men’s leagues are active throughout the Front Range, along with couples leagues, senior groups and social golf groups. And not every group revolves around competition or maintaining a handicap. For many golfers, the friendships and weekly routine are every bit as important as the scorecard.
That social connection can become especially important when choosing where to live. Meeting new people as an adult isn’t always easy—particularly after retirement, a relocation, or simply leaving the daily interaction of the workplace. Golf communities and active local courses can provide a ready-made social network: regular games, leagues, couples events, clinics and plenty of opportunities to turn familiar faces into friendships.
Beginners have plenty of places to start. Par-3 and shorter courses provide an approachable—and often relatively inexpensive—way to learn the game or work on a short game. Many municipal recreation programs and golf facilities also offer clinics, lessons and programs for adults and juniors.
You don’t have to be a scratch golfer—or belong to an expensive private club—to build golf into your Colorado lifestyle.
Golf and Active Adult Living
Golf can be a natural fit with retirement and active-adult living in Colorado, and there are 55+ communities where golf is part of the lifestyle. But you certainly don’t have to choose an age-restricted community to find it.
Many courses offer attractive weekday senior rates, along with senior leagues, women’s and men’s groups, couples golf and other opportunities to play regularly and meet people.
That creates an interesting real estate question. A 55+ golf community may be exactly what you’re looking for—or you may prefer a traditional neighborhood near a favorite course, a lock-and-leave property that gives you more freedom to travel, or a home convenient to several courses rather than tied to just one.
The golf lifestyle you want can help shape the real estate choices worth considering—not the other way around.
What Does Your Golf Lifestyle Look Like?
Regardless of how important golf is to you, it should be only one part of the real estate decision. The home, location, neighborhood and needs of everyone in the household’s daily life still matter.
As real estate brokers and active Colorado golfers, Peter and I understand both sides of that conversation. We can help you evaluate the golf, the community and the real estate so you can decide what combination works best for you.