Pueblo de Cochiti Golf Course

Overview: Pueblo de Cochiti Golf Course is an 18-hole public Robert Trent Jones Jr. design in the high desert near Cochiti Lake. Set among the foothills of the Jemez Mountains, the course uses the region’s natural contours, open spaces and mountain views to create a layout that is both rugged and playable. The setting between Albuquerque and Santa Fe gives it a useful place in a New Mexico golf itinerary, but the course earns its identity from the land itself. It is a broad, scenic design where the absence of dense development keeps the focus on ground, sky and changing lines of play.

History: The course was designed and opened in 1981, when Jones brought his strategic approach to the high-desert terrain of northern New Mexico. The layout was shaped to work with the foothill setting rather than hide it, and the public course has since become a regular fixture in descriptions of the state’s leading golf. Its 6,817-yard back layout retains enough scale for a serious round while offering multiple sets of markers for different playing abilities.

Did You Know? Pueblo de Cochiti’s own course materials use the phrase Heaven with a zip code, a playful description of a setting that combines mountain foothills with unusually open desert views. The course sits roughly between the two major golf centers of Albuquerque and Santa Fe, making its location part of the experience as much as its Robert Trent Jones Jr. routing.