Black Mesa Golf Club

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What They're Saying About Us

GOLF Magazine	2006 Top 100 You Can Play – No. 35 (2004 - No. 47) Top 100 Best Bang For Your Buck – No. 25 Top Thrifty 50 – No. 11 2003 Top Ten You Can Play
Golfweek	2008 Top 100 Modern (post-1960) Courses – No. 73 (2007 – No. 85) 2008 Best Courses You Can Play – No. 2 in New Mexico
Golf Digest	2007/08 America’s Greatest Public Golf Courses - No. 55 2007/08 Best in State – No. 3 Bet Places to Play – Four Stars (out of five) 2003 Best New Affordable Public Course
T + L Golf	Four and a Half Stars (out of five)

“Respecting Mother Earth: It is arid Southwest architecture of the highest order.”
Golf Digest
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"Top 10 You Can Play – One of the finest public-access courses that opened their gates in 2003"
Golf Magazine
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“This Baxter Spann design north of Santa Fe is one of the premier American layouts built in the past 25 or 30 years.”
Golf Today Magazine
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“Black Mesa is one of the more spectacular courses anywhere, with holes climbing, diving and weaving through massive sandstone formations. With no sign of civilization other than the clubhouse, Black Mesa can look like the moon, but the golf is heavenly.”
LINKS Magazine
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“Calling it great only scratches the surface of what this marvelous collection of 18 holes is all about. You’ll love it and will want to return for more.”
Southern California Golf News
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"Baxter Spann is just completing Black Mesa Golf Club a half hour north of Santa Fe which could very well turn out to be the finest course in New Mexico, public or private."
Golf Digest
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"Classic architectural features abound with the twist being the stunning New Mexico setting"
Golf Club Atlas
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"Baxter Spann has created a true femme fatale: gorgeous, tough, enigmatic."
T&L Golf
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“Black Mesa ranks among the very best minimalist layouts in America. It's on a par with Tom Doak's Pacific Dunes…”
Golf Digest
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"With Black Mesa, Finger Dye Spann, Inc. is coming close to cornering the market on excellent new New Mexico courses."
Celebrated Living
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"Astounding high desert layout thrilling, humbling"
TravelGolf.com
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"Black Mesa is the finest public course you can play in New Mexico - 9.0"
The Jersey Golfer Magazine

“Located a half-hour north of Santa Fe, Black Mesa weaves over and through stark sandstone bluffs to present a supreme but fair test.”
Travel + Leisure Golf
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“A walk through Black Mesa is simply awesome. Tucked within canyons and valley of the Santa Clara Pueblo, Black Mesa may be the best course filmed within the GTW series in 2003.”
Golfingtheworld.net
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