University Ridge ranked No. 5 college course in the nation
September 08, 2011 | Men's Golf
Sept. 8, 2011
• Golfweek's Top Collegiate Golf Courses
MADISON, Wis. -- University Ridge Golf Course has been rated one of the top campus courses in the nation in 2011 according to the Sept. 7 Golfweek Magazine. Opened in 1991, the Robert Trent Jones designed course was ranked No. 5 among all collegiate courses and the top course in the Big Ten Conference.
The top-ranked golf course is The Course at Yale in New Haven, Conn. No. 2 stays on the east coast with Taconic Golf Course at Williamstown, Mass. The Rawls Course at Texas Tech was No. 3, and Washington State's Palouse Ridge GC was No. 4.
The Badgers were the top collegiate course in the Midwest and moved up one slot from last year's campus survey. The next Big Ten course came in at No. 7 with Ohio State University's Scarlet. Other courses among the top-10 include Stanford at No. 6, and the top SEC course was the University of Georgia Golf Course.
Notre Dame's Warren Golf Course, the site of last year's NCAA Women's Central Regional, was rated 12th, Michigan's course was 15th, Purdue's Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex was 18th, and Iowa's Finkbine Golf Course was No. 27. Find the list of campus courses here.
University Ridge Golf Course is a par 72, 7,259-yard course which was rated No. 28 in the Top Public Golf Courses in America in 2008 by the Readers Choice Awards for GolfWorld Magazine. It has also been consistently rated the Best Golf Course in Madison by Madison Magazine and is "Madison's favorite" by Isthmus. In 2010, University Ridge was named host site of the 2015 State Open host site by Wisconsin PGA.
Since the course's opening in 1991, it has been highly ranked in many surveys. University Ridge was ranked third in Golf Digest's Best New Public Golf Courses in its first year. The University Ridge Golf Shop was recently awarded 100 Best Golf Shops by GolfWorld Magazine.
The University Ridge Golf Course is located at 9002 County Road PD, Madison, Wis.; Phone: 608/845-7700. The Ridge offers a spectacular view of the rolling terrain as well as 7,259 yards of championship challenge. The course features a fairly wide-open front nine followed by an undulating back nine that offers holes cut into extremely deep woods.
