In Photos: The East Course at The Broadmoor Resort
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The Broadmoor celebrated its 100th anniversary in style, hosting the 2018 U.S. Senior Open in June on its famed and feared East course, the host of six other USGA Championships.
Jack Nicklaus (1959 U.S. Amateur) and Annika Sorenstam (1995 U.S. Women's Open) both won their first major events here. David Toms (2018 U.S. Senior Open), Julie Inkster (1982 U.S. Women's Amateur), Eduardo Romero (2008 U.S. Senior Open) and So Yeon Ryu (2011 U.S. Women's Open) are other notable champions crowned at The Broadmoor. You'll need to be a player of their caliber to handle the legendary thick rough and tough-to-read greens heavily influenced by the Cheyenne Mountains.
The original routing by Donald Ross in 1918 was split when the West course was added by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1964. That rerouting leaves Ross-designed holes to start (holes 1-6) and end the day (holes 16-18) with the RTJ Sr. holes across the road sandwiched in the middle of the round. They both have their moments.
A pond near the clubhouse guards the approach shots to the par-5 third green and the par-3 fourth green. Elevated greens seem to be the theme of RTJ's work at holes 7, 9, 11 and 15. The Ross finishing hole is worthy of a major venue, a stout 433-yard dogleg right to a green perched above a pond.
The Broadmoor East might be a mutt architecturally, but it's a purebred when it comes to challenging anyone's game.