Sand Valley (Sedge Valley)
Sand Valley (Sedge Valley)
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Course Type
Resort -
GOLF Top 100 Courses You Can Play Rank (2024-25)
22 -
Year
2024 -
Architect
Tom Doak -
Par
68 -
Yardage
5,829
Course Overview
In his long and heralded design career, Tom Doak has pretty much done it all. What remained on his wish list was to build a course inspired by the great heathland layouts of England. At Sand Valley, he finally got his chance to channel his inner-Harry Colt. A clever, compact complement to the resort’s three other 18-hole courses (Sand Valley, Mammoth Dunes and semi-private Lido), Sedge Valley tips out at a shade under 6,000 yards. But length is not the best tell of its tape. Forgiving-looking fairways are wonderfully deceptive, with slopes and brows that place a premium on finding the right angle. Greens, too, have ample movement, and approaches to them are often complicated by rises in the land that shroud the target from view. Sedge Valley is a reminder that size does indeed matter, and that bigger isn’t always best.
