Golfing at Arrowhead

As far as courses go in the Denver area, the views don’t get much better than Arrowhead. Arrowhead Golf Club is open to the public, but one heck of a drive from Brighton. It’s all the way down near Roxborough State Park. In order to get on the course on a Saturday morning, we had to take the first tee-time available – 6:33am on Sept 20th. In the dark.

Using my dads GPS navigator in his new Honda Civic Hybrid, we made our way to the clubhouse. It was very windy outside and we layered up as we didn’t know what to expect. We went inside and got the information that the wind will blow until 10:30am which is about when we should be finishing up. (Go figure)

We walked over to the range, where you can’t even using your driver, and warmed up. We teed off in the dark on the first hole. On hole number 2 we finally had some sun and could see what we were doing, and by hole 3, we were actually starting to warm up and the wind was slightly calming down.

Every hole just seems to have some awesome view associated with it and the course was in great shape. There was plenty of wildlife to view on Arrowhead.

After golfing, we stopped at Waterton Canyon to do some fly-fishing. We hiked a couple of miles in and found a spot by a dam to fish. It worked out well as I hooked three fish and my dad got one within a minute of us arriving, but none the rest of the time. A storm was moving in so we made the march back to the car.

It was a great day and we were even back in time for dinner!