Four acclaimed handcrafted golf courses maintained with exquisite care, provide a mountain and high desert golf experience available only at Cordillera. The Summit, Mountain, Valley and Short Courses represent golf at its finest, providing the most balanced, challenging, and enjoyable mountain golf in the world. Situated on widely varying terrains in four microclimates, that range in altitude from 7,150 feet on the valley floor to 9,200 feet at Cordillera’s Summit, these courses reflect the best thinking of the greatest course designers at work today and have received, time and again, golf’s greatest accolades. The Summit Course, situated at 9,200 feet along the spectacular upper reaches of Cordillera, represents Jack Nicklaus at his minimalist best. Nicklaus took extraordinary measures to see that the course fit seamlessly into the existing terrain. Hale Irwin’s 7,444-yard Mountain Course provides players with tree-lined fairways and sharp changes in elevation. Laid out on the warm valley floor with its sage, arroyos and mountain streams, Tom Fazio’s Valley Course stretches over 400 acres of beautifully groomed high-mountain desert. The Valley Course is open from April to October and offers Members one of the longest playing seasons in the Vail Valley. As magnificent as it is unusual, the Dave Pelz Short Course is sophisticated enough for serious players wishing to develop a stronger short game, while providing a relaxed golf experience for every ability level.