Cochiti Golf Club

Located between Santa Fe and Albuquerque in Cochiti Lake, New Mexico on tribal lands belonging to the Cochiti Pueblo, the Cochiti Golf Course is tucked into juniper hills on a remote plateau. The Robert Trent Jones Jr. design offers unobstructed red rock mountain views.

Scenic Beauty and Design

Robert Trent Jones Jr.'s design philosophy emphasizes the integration of natural landscapes with strategic play. At Cochiti Golf Club, Jones Jr. has expertly harmonized the course with the alpine desert environment, creating a layout that enhances the natural features while providing a strategic challenge. His design approach focuses on incorporating the existing terrain into the course, which includes elements such as waste areas, canyons, and ponds. This philosophy ensures that the course not only respects its surroundings but also offers golfers a variety of strategic options and visual delights.

Featuring a fantastic layout this public golf course has a variety of holes. The desert terrain and friendly staff Cochiti Golf Club keeps players coming back for more.

This alpine desert design is characterized by challenging approaches and fairways that narrow between framing greenside bunkers. Cochiti is a playable course rich in strategic variety, harmonizing natural features with the values of both the indigenous people and the Royal and Ancient game. Following an opening hole that caroms downhill, number two presents a 450-yard par four with a waste area fronting the green and a slope that deflects balls into it, so that even lay-ups must be well struck. Greens tend toward the large side; the putting surface on the fifth hole seems to disappear into an inviting canyon. The eighteenth hole requires a drive that threads between two ponds. Wind also proves a factor in negotiating these holes. As on many arid mountain courses, the topography here provided plenty of opportunities for us to create contour, elevation, and perception puzzles that add to the site's mystery.

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