Ruidoso Golf Trip

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Dale Earnhardts Stache
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Myself and 2 buddies are headed to Ruidoso for a golf/horse track weekend on 7/6-7/9.

The plan is to play Inn of the Mountain Gods and, hopefully, Rainmakers. I'm going to call Rainmakers the week before and see if I can get us on. Supposedly they'll take public tee times when/where they can.

The plan would be to play Rainmakers on Friday afternoon. And Inn of the Mountain Gods on Saturday morning.

Does Alto/Outlaw accept any public tee times? Or do you have to know somebody?

Our fallback would be Links if we can't get on at Rainmakers.

Any other courses in the area that I'm overlooking or forgetting about?
oldag00
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We've done Ruidoso the last two years for our guys golf trip with mostly single digit players. We really enjoy The Links course. We also played one round each trip at RainMaker. While beautiful and exquisitely maintained, it is a brutally difficult golf course to the point of not being fun. The second year we played a scramble. It has several blind, or non-descript tee shots that make things more difficult than necessary. After a dozen plus rounds out there, it might start to be enjoyable. Take plenty of golf balls and just play for fun. Prepare to use plenty of mulligans. Both our rounds were on Sunday mornings in September. We paid about $80 and saw no more than three other groups across the entire facility either time. It was surreal. Let me know if you have any specific questions.
Dale Earnhardts Stache
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oldag00 said:

We've done Ruidoso the last two years for our guys golf trip with mostly single digit players. We really enjoy The Links course. We also played one round each trip at RainMaker. While beautiful and exquisitely maintained, it is a brutally difficult golf course to the point of not being fun. The second year we played a scramble. It has several blind, or non-descript tee shots that make things more difficult than necessary. After a dozen plus rounds out there, it might start to be enjoyable. Take plenty of golf balls and just play for fun. Prepare to use plenty of mulligans. Both our rounds were on Sunday mornings in September. We paid about $80 and saw no more than three other groups across the entire facility either time. It was surreal. Let me know if you have any specific questions.
Inn of the Mountain Gods or Rainmaker if you had to choose? Just for having fun.
oldag00
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We've never played Inn of the Mountain Gods.
BreNayPop
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We go as a group each labor day and play 3-4 days. Rainmaker is a great course that can be top when in good shape. Inn of the Mountain Gods is a fun course from the tips and requires shaping tee shots, from whites it is more straight forward and fun for a group (dont forget where the mountain is on putts). The links, when in good shape, is a blast and a scoreable course. Havent been up there this year so no idea what shape it is in. I really enjoy cree meadows as a great first day course because it has a ton of scoreable holes. If you can, play alto because you shoot under par on the front and be happy with bogey golf on the back... tree lined fairways on the back is probably my favorite 9 holes up there. Thats all i got.
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Cree is very short. Inn of the Mountain Gods is very nice but top 3 most difficult I have played. Links is fun. I put it this way, Ruidoso is a fun trip (golf, horsetrack, casino) with nice golf options but it isn't a golf destination.
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Rainmakers is now owned by an Aggie. He's doing tremendous things to an already tremendous golf course. They have gone semi-private & non-members can play Monday through Thursday. Golf digest was out there recently & said the course will be the second ranked course in New Mexico this year.

Great golf, beautiful views of the Capitns & Sierra Blanca, & lots of wildlife.
sodycracker
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In addition, R.D. Hubbard sold the race track to 4 really good guys who are ranchers & horsemen & are in the process of much needed & long overdue track renovations.
Dale Earnhardts Stache
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Thanks for the feedback y'all. Sounds like Rainmakers is out. Gonna shoot for Links and Inn.

The plan is to play golf in the morning and then be at the Jockey Club each afternoon.

Should be a damn fun trip.
WestTexAG
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Didn't this deal fall through a couple of months ago?
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WestTexAG said:

Didn't this deal fall through a couple of months ago?


Negative. He even bought the 20,000+ sf Spencer mansion across the highway & is renovating it for a spa/wedding venue
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