Deer Valley Golf Course - Prairie

This is a very picturesque course as it covers a valley and two side hill areas that have flats, hills, and slopes in a beautiful glacial area. To appreciate what to do on this course it helps to have played it at least once already or to be along with someone who has played it. There are major tough areas and subtle tough areas that produce interesting challenges- one of the reasons I keep coming back. In the last couple years some tall grass and bushy areas have been cut back to take a bit of the sting out of the course without making it an easy course. Hole #1 pumps you up right away, as it starts out at the top of the shallower part of the valley and then goes up hill all the rest of the way- a par 5 about 500 total yards. 3 nines give you the choice of a valley nine or two hilltop nines, one of which dips in and out of the valley utilizing their signature par 3 hole that drops approximately 100 or more feet to a green protected by a hill of shrubbery and trees with a pond in front of the green which requires 100 to 125 yards of hitting distance to make the green. This is followed by a par 4 dogleg right back up the hill adjacent to the par 3 hole. Love the combination. You will find just about every possible combination of hitting situations that you could possibly find anywhere- keeps it very interesting.

The Ridge course was beautiful and the views are fabulous. We love the club house and the prices.

The Valley was challenging but we enjoyed this anyways. We love to try different courses and love our visit to Deer Valley.

Tough course and always a challenge. Gorgeous views.

Deer Valley has been on my Bucket list for quite awhile. I was in Madison or the weekend and played on twenty seven holes here. 3 completely different 9 Hole Courses, but I loved the lay out. First let me say I liked the staff's help. And getting a free yardage booklet to all first time players is sure class. A lot of course you have to buy them, so Bravo. I was paired up with 2 soon to be college young men, and we hit the Ridge course, I played the god's on all 3 courses, or back tee's. And did not find difficult at all. The ridge has no hard holes on it. The famed par 3 5th hole is very easy, hit a wedge and your dancing on the green from any tee block. The Ridge is a nice layout of rolling hill land scape, but wide open and always bale out to the left to play safe. But huge fairways makes the Ridges very ease to play for all levels, hard to loose a ball on the Ridges.
On to the next 9 the young men ad I Played the Back 9 to this 27 hole layout called the Prairie. Now the Prairie had again rolling hills and some blind shots, but again id open fairways makes this fairly easy even to a beginner golfer. And it plays shorter tan the Ridges by a few hundred yards. But the only tuff hole here on this 9 was and I pared it was hole 11. From the gold nice polk, finally a par 3 that had some distance at 218. But I watched the boys I played with from the whites on the prairie nearly drive a few greens. so this 18 Holes is not long at all, but average length a best for this 2 9s. They have as there 18 Hole Course. The View were breath taking, but this was very ease to play, I holed out from the gold's with a ridge 9 score of 40, and a Prairie9 score of 40=80.
Then I went on to play what I considered the Valley course to be the hidden gem of this layout. Talk about playing bowling bowl golf here. What I mean is, that this 9' s very sort, but lake playing on a bowling lane. so Narrow. If your a great golfer a it straight every time, u will shoot par here. Though a par 35 only, This course is tricky. I had 4 par's but 5 Double B's Here for a 45. The Valley Chewed me up. Nice place. Great 1 time play. I would Recommend it!!!

Wonderful course. Very hilly. Georgous views.
Mishits could put you into the heather you couldn't see. Or down an aembankment you had to navigate back up. Semi-tough but wonderful site lines.

It is a nice course. Not really a course you can walk.
Friendly staff. Worth playing!!

Great day for golf. The price was great and the pace of play was very fast. The greens are very tough. The course layout can be confusing, but is fun to play. No drink cart was a bit of a downer, but we did go on a Tuesday in the middle of the day. I would tell anyone who has not played Deer Valley to check it out. It is very beautiful.

Lots of elevation changes which make it a fun course to play. Very windy on this day. Stones in traps.

Great layout friendly staff good value for the money would recommend to anyone any playing level

Original back 9 has some difficult down hill runs into greens. The new nine has a few tree lined fairways demanding a straight drive.

Deer Valley is a gem of a course anytime of the year.
Although you may not be impressed by looking at the course from the highway or Golf Shop, you will indeed feel that you are in a special place once you play the holes that are intertwined in the valleys and bluffs. I live in Madison but travel the 40 miles to Deer Valley since I feel the course really makes you feel like you are out of the city. In addition, the course is, in my opinion, more challenging than many of the courses in Madison. In the Fall, you will also be treated with the beauty of Fall colors since the course has many hardwood trees and the valleys come alive with color. It's a great course and reasonably priced.

I play this course several times a year. There are some blind shots, so make sure you get their book with tips on each hole. Staff is very friendly and you can find some really great deals for this course.

Love going here. Course doesn't punish you for every bad shot but challenges you with tight protected greens, sloping fairways, and blind approaches. Minimal damage from the winter, not many trees or water but beautiful rolling hills.