Architect
Tom Doak
CommonGround is the Colorado Golf Association's home course — a public facility operated as mission rather than business, where the governing body of the state's game invests its reputation in every round played.
A Tom Doak masterpiece at the intersection of Mission and Masterpiece — open to the public, walked with a caddie, the way the game was meant to be experienced.
CommonGround is the Colorado Golf Association's own course — built to prove what public golf should be.
For more than a century the CGA has run championships, administered handicaps, and advocated for the game across Colorado. In 2009 we opened our own course on the former Lowry Air Force Base. Every green fee is reinvested in the game.
The Solich Caddie & Leadership Academy, founded by the CGA in 2012, trains young Coloradans as caddies and as leaders. The course is open to the public year-round.
Handicaps, championships, caddies and community programs all connect back here.
Tom Doak's brief was unusual: build a championship course the public could play, on ground the CGA owned, at prices the CGA could defend. What he returned is a walkable links-feeling layout that asks questions without hiding its answers — generous off the tee, demanding into its greens, and honest about what the land is.
The result is less a sculpted landscape than a revealed one. Firm turf, contoured greens, and fairways that roll where the prairie did before a runway ever cut it. It is a course that rewards thought more than power, and that plays differently every round the wind turns.
Tom Doak builds with the land, not over it. Each hole is a decision he left for the player — not the course — to make. Par 71 · 7,229 yards from the tips.
The Solich Caddie & Leadership Academy was founded by the CGA in 2012 and lives a CommonGround. It trains young Coloradans not only in caddie craft, but in the habits of leadership — judgment, composure, service — that transfer to everything else they'll do. During summer, players can take a Solich caddie for free; availability is confirmed in the golf shop.
Caddies at CommonGround are free. They come from the Solich Caddie & Leadership Academy — founded by the CGA in 2012 — and they've learned the course the only way it rewards: one round at a time. During summer, inquire in the golf shop for availability.
"Taking a caddie at CommonGround isn't a luxury — it's how Tom Doak imagined the round being played." — Head Professional, CommonGround Golf Shop
CommonGround is judged, publicly, by the people responsible for the health of Colorado golf. Here is what a few of them say when asked why the course matters beyond the scorecard.
When an association invests its name in running a public course, the standard goes up everywhere. CommonGround is the most visible promise the CGA makes to the state.
It is rare to see a governing body operate its own course to a higher standard than the private clubs it serves. That is exactly what happens here.
The Solich Academy is the quiet engine of this place. Caddies grow into leaders, and the community notices long before the scorecards do.
You forget, playing here, that you're half a mile from an old runway. The ground just behaves — firm turf, honest bounces, greens that look softer than they play. It is the round I measure other rounds against.
Took the caddie. Walked the course. Forgot the phone existed for four hours. That is what I came for.
Doak left room for you to play the course you want to play. Few public courses do.
Pure golf, without the commercial noise. I book 90 days out every year.
All CommonGround memberships include full CGA benefits: a GHIN number, an official USGA Handicap, 25% off green fees all year, and 7-day advance tee time reservations. Every option includes CGA membership, an official USGA Handicap, 25% off green fees year-round, and 7-day advance bookings — so the best tee times on a Tom Doak course stay within reach.
Public bookings open daily. Up to 90 days in advance for an additional $20 advance booking fee. CGA Members enjoy 7-day advance reservations and 25% off green fees.