University Ridge ranked No. 3 college course in the nation
September 04, 2014 | General News
• Golfweek's Best Collegiate Golf Courses
MADISON, Wis. -- University Ridge Golf Course has been rated one of the top campus courses in the nation again according to the Sept. 4, 2014, Golfweek Magazine. Opened in 1991, the Robert Trent Jones designed course moved up two spots and was ranked No. 3 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.
University Ridge moved ahead of The Rawls Course at Texas Tech in Lubbock which dropped to No. 4, and Washington State's Palouse Ridge GC in Pullman was No. 5.
The Badgers have the top collegiate course in the Midwest. The next Big Ten course came in at No. 8 with Ohio State University's Scarlet. Purdue's Kampen Course was 10th, and Michigan's university GC was 11th.
Other notable courses include Stanford from the Pac-12 at No. 6, Virginia Tech River Course as the top ACC school was ninth, and the top SEC course was the University of Georgia Golf Course at 12th.
Find the list of campus courses here.
University Ridge Golf Course is a par 72, 7,259-yard course which is rated in the Top 50 Public Golf Courses in America in 2013 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 is consistently honored as one of the 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.
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