About Park City Utah Golf
Park City Utah Golf is a directory of every course worth playing within about thirty minutes of Park City — twenty-two of them, from municipal nine-holes to private clubs most people never see the inside of. We have played them, photographed them, and written them up one at a time.
We are not visitors here.
Park City, 1980
The Oar brothers grew up in Park City and learned to play golf there in 1980, taught by their grandmother. Golf was never the competitive sport — that was moguls. They skied for the original Park City Freestyle Ski Team, back when freestyle was still working out what it was going to be. Golf was the summer thing. The thing your grandmother had shown you how to do, on a mountain town course, in light worth walking around in.
The photographs came first. Everything else was built around them. How this became a business
Thirty years on, Brian Oar had become one of the top course photographers working in golf. That is the engine behind everything here. Every course image on this site is his, shot on location, at the hour the light was worth waiting for. Not supplied by the clubs, not licensed from a stock library, not generated. When you look at a green on this site, that is what the green looks like.
From photographs to tee sheets
Shooting courses across the Southwest for years meant knowing them properly — which ones hold up in August, which are worth the drive, who to call to get a group on. That turned into GolfPackagePros, and GolfPackagePros grew into one of the busiest golf travel concierges in the Southwest, moving groups into St. George, Mesquite, Las Vegas, Laughlin and Scottsdale.
Park City was always the one we came back to. We have believed for a long time that this valley was ripe to be a golf destination in its own right — nineteen mountain courses inside thirty minutes, Olympic-venue scenery, and summer temperatures that make August in the desert look like a decision rather than a default. This site exists to make that case properly: a directory good enough to plan a trip from, and a place to book one.
How we write about courses
We name architects in full — Tom Fazio, Rees Jones, Pete Dye, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Rob Collins and Tad King — because who routed a hole is the most useful thing you can know about it. We describe what a course does well and what it asks of you. We do not publish green fees, because they change every season and every tee sheet, and a number that is wrong is worse than no number at all.
Where a course is closed, under construction, or newly opened, we say so on the page and we date it. Where we are unsure of a fact, we leave it out.
The business behind the writing
Alongside the directory we arrange stay-and-play golf packages across the Park City area — multi-course rounds, lodging, and access to a handful of private clubs that open up through package play. That is how this pays for itself, and we would rather tell you plainly than bury it.
It does not change what goes on a course page. A course does not get a warmer write-up for being bookable, and several of the best courses here cannot be booked through us at all.