Entrada At Snow Canyon Golf Course and Green Spring Golf Course, U.S.A.

 
 

Entrada At Snow Canyon Golf Course - Utah, U.S.A.

Entrada, which is Spanish for entrance, is located in St. George, in the color country of southwestern Utah. The course lies at the base of the rugged and ruddy Navajo and Kayenta sandstone cliffs near the mouth of Snow Canyon. Opened in September 1996, Entrada was designed by golf legend turned television com­mentator Johnny Miller with Fred Bliss. The course is built on 700 acres of desert floor. Several of the holes play along the rust-colored cliffs, others wind through a desert wash lined with mesquite and reedy water holes, while three holes run through the ancient beds of scarred black lava.

Green Spring Golf Course - Utah, U.S.A.

Green Spring Golf Course is a public layout in Washington City, near St. George, in the southwestern corner of Utah. Designed by Gene Bates and opened in 1991, the course is sculpted through tessellated red rocks, with holes playing over canyons the color of smoky rubies and ponds lined with tall marsh grasses. Pine Valley Mountain hovers above the course to the north, and the mountains of Zion National Park loom further in the distance to the east. Washington City was founded by 38 Mormon families, all originally from southern states, who made the great trek west to Salt Lake, and were asked by Brigham Young to grow cot­ ton in southern Utah-the so-called Cotton Mission. Washington City was the first of the cotton settlements along the basin of the Virgin River, earning the region the name of Utah's Dixie.