Colorado Springs Golf Living Guide

The Broadmoor anchors the market's identity: a Donald Ross-designed East and West Course (1918, with major 1950s additions by Robert Trent Jones Sr.) that has hosted the U.S. Amateur (1959 -- Jack Nicklaus' first USGA title -- and 1967), the U.S. Women's Open (1995, 2011), and the U.S. Senior Open (2008, 2018, 2025, with 2031 and 2037 already awarded). It has never hosted a men's U.S. Open, a correction worth stating plainly since that claim has circulated. A third course, the Mountain Course, has been closed since a 2015 landslide.

Flying Horse represents the market's other golf model entirely: a newer (northern Colorado Springs), gated, master-planned community built around two full 18-hole private courses (Tom Weiskopf's original design and Phil Smith's Flying Horse North course), sold through conventional tiered private-club membership. The remaining clubs -- The Country Club of Colorado (Pete Dye's first design west of the Mississippi, operated through Cheyenne Mountain Resort/Hyatt), the historic, 1891-founded Cheyenne Mountain Country Club, Kissing Camels Golf Club at Garden of the Gods Club and Resort (27 holes, 1982 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur host), and the member-owned Colorado Springs Country Club -- fill out a smaller, more varied private-club layer than Denver's.

Southwest Colorado Springs, at the base of Cheyenne Mountain, holds the market's historic golf-prestige cluster: The Broadmoor, its adjacent Broadmoor Resort Community, The Country Club of Colorado (via Cheyenne Mountain Resort), and the separate, older Cheyenne Mountain Country Club near the mouth of Cheyenne Canyon -- three to four distinct entities sharing overlapping 'Cheyenne Mountain' geography and branding that buyers should be careful not to conflate. Northern Colorado Springs, near the Air Force Academy, is a newer, purpose-built golf-community submarket centered entirely on Flying Horse. Kissing Camels (western Colorado Springs, adjacent to Garden of the Gods Park) and the centrally located, member-owned Colorado Springs Country Club sit outside both clusters as their own standalone entities.

No anchor in this market includes club membership automatically with a home purchase. The Broadmoor's Golf Club is invitation-only and sponsor-based; Broadmoor Resort Community homeowners may apply, but application is not a guarantee. Flying Horse sells Social, Full Golf, and Signature Golf memberships as a tiered product with real initiation fees and monthly dues (increased effective September 1, 2026, per the club's own materials), available even to buyers outside the community. The Country Club of Colorado, Kissing Camels, Cheyenne Mountain Country Club, and Colorado Springs Country Club are each independent private-membership clubs with their own separate application processes.

Housing character varies sharply by submarket: the Broadmoor Resort Community is a gated, roughly 573-acre luxury enclave of 200-plus single-family homes and 63 villas/townhomes; Flying Horse spans a wide range from homes in the $700s (Village of Turin) to multi-million-dollar homes (Village of Madonie) and custom 2.5-5 acre homesites (Flying Horse North); and Colorado Springs Country Club's surrounding neighborhood is an older, centrally located, club-named area without a single developer-built structure.

Colorado Springs sits roughly 45-60 minutes south of Denver via I-25, in El Paso County at the base of Pikes Peak and Cheyenne Mountain, with Garden of the Gods Park and the Air Force Academy as its other defining geographic landmarks.