Nineteen mountain courses inside thirty minutes — and we've played, shot, and reviewed every one worth your tee time.

Park City wasn't a golf town until the 2002 Olympics put it on the map. What followed was a building spree: a stretch of high-desert and mountain valley that now holds work from Tom Fazio, Jack Nicklaus, Rees Jones, Pete Dye, Mark O'Meara, Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, King Collins Dormer, Dave Boyden and Gene Bates, all within an hour of Salt Lake International Airport.

This site is the independent record of it. We name the architect's fingerprints, separate the courses that earn their ranking from the ones coasting on a view, and back it with Brian Oar's photography instead of marketing brochures. Public daily-fee or private mountain club, the write-up tells you what the round actually plays like.

The Park City area is high-flying mountain golf at 6,500 feet — cool summer air, firm turf, fairways framed by aspens, pines, scrub oak and sagebrush that go gold in the fall, and a ball that carries an extra club at altitude. It's a different game entirely from the red-rock-and-desert courses down in St. George, where the heat, the sandstone canyons, and the target-golf carries are the whole point. Same state, two climates, both worth the trip. Start with the public courses, browse the private clubs, then book a package.