Black Mesa getting major props everywhere

I’ve said on numerous occasions that Black Mesa outside Santa Fe, New Mexico is one of the three most important public golf courses to open in this country since Sawgrass. (For those of you scoring at home, the others are, of course, the Bandon Dunes resort and Tobacco Road.)

Black Mesa is more than ready for her close up. She’ll not only be featured in one of my Golf Observer articles (up soon after I return from the Hootie at Bulls Bay College Invitational), but she just had a great feature in Golf Magazine and will have one in another well respected national magazine soon.

With greens fees under $60, a collection of greens intricate enough to stump Mensa members and a routing that Baxter Spann said was inspired by what he saw at Tobacco Road, she is raising the bar on what we can expect from a public golf course.

$200 flavorless golf courses? Who needs ’em? Fly out to Black Mesa and nearby Paa-ko Ridge and play for three days at that price!

New Mexico…think of it as Arizona, only at less than half the cost.