Bonneville Golf Course Review – Salt Lake City

Bonneville Golf Course is a stunning, mature and an entertaining track! Built on the East Bench of Salt Lake City (5 minutes from downtown), the course offers panoramic views of Salt Lake Valley and the world-class Utah mountains. The course follows the natural contours of the area and provides memorable tee shots into sloping fairways, over deep ravines and through various wooded areas along the fairways and behind the greens. The majority of the driving holes have an elevated tee box hitting into sloping uphill fairways that have a peak and then go downhill to descending greens. Big hitters have an advantage if they can hit to the top of each hill as the ball will roll an additional 20-30 yards if they catch the downslope. The course was built in 1929, allowing for fully grown trees adding to the natural beauty of Bonneville.

The greens are fast and contoured. The saying around this course is “breaks toward the Lake” meaning that the majority of putts break toward downtown Salt Lake City. I found this logic to be true 90% of the time. Two holes actually have two sets of greens (#8 and #10), making the distance and strategy different depending on which green they choose for that day. Due to the sloping fairways, not too many approach shots have a level lie.