University Ridge ranked No. 3 campus course in the country
September 03, 2015 | Women's Golf
UW is third for the second-straight year and remains the top-ranked Big Ten course
Sept. 3, 2015
• Golfweek's Best Collegiate Golf Courses
MADISON, Wis. - University Ridge Golf Course was rated as one of the top campus courses in the country, according to the September 2015 edition of Golfweek Magazine. Opened in 1991, the Robert Trent Jones-designed course came in at No. 3 on the Best Campus Courses list for the second-consecutive year after moving up from No. 5 in 2014.
Identical to the 2014 list, University Ridge trailed top-ranked The Course at Yale, located in New Haven, Conn., and Williams College's Taconic Golf Course in Williamstown, Mass., which came in at No. 2.
Spots four through seven, which feature No. 4 The Rawls Course at Texas Tech, No. 5 Palouse Ridge Golf Course (Washington State), No. 6 Stanford Golf Course and No. 7 The Orchards, also remained the same as last year.
The Badgers have the top collegiate course in the Big Ten, as Purdue University's Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex (Kampen) was ranked 11th, Ohio State's Scarlet golf course was No. 12 and Michigan's university golf course came in at No. 13. Other notable Midwest links on the list include Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame and Radrick Farms in Ann Arbor, Mich.
University Ridge Golf Course is a par 72, 7,259-yard course which, in 2014, was rated 29th in GolfAdvisor's Top 50 U.S. Golf Courses and No. 7 in Wisconsin Golfweek's Best Courses You Can Play. It has also been consistently rated the Best Golf Course in Madison by Madison Magazine and recently hosted the 2015 Wisconsin State Open.
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 and the 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. It 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.
