Manhattan · KS

Colbert Hills Golf Course

Est. 2000 · Jim Colbert & Jeff Brauer
Why we love this place

There's something we love about a course born to teach, where Kansas State's teams grind, future superintendents learn their craft, and kids get their first swing. Add the raw Flint Hills wind and those sweeping prairie views, and Colbert Hills feels like golf with a real purpose behind it.

Via Colbert Hills

Par
72
Rating
77.6
Slope
143
Length
4,7647,505 yd
Holes
18
Par 72Out 36In 36Full card ▾
Hole123456789Out
Yds5904124164942134286002104623825
Par54443453436
Hole101112131415161718In
Yds6142304143574873755132374533680
Par53444453436

About Colbert Hills Golf Course

The idea for Colbert Hills dates to 1994, when Kansas State alumnus and Champions Tour winner Jim Colbert championed a university-run course to train the Wildcat golf teams and support turfgrass research and superintendent education. On roughly 300 acres of donated Flint Hills land northwest of Manhattan, Colbert partnered with Dallas architect Jeff Brauer on the roughly $11 million layout, which opened in April 2000 with an invitational pro-am featuring Lee Trevino, Raymond Floyd and Annika Sorenstam. The rugged, windswept prairie site yields a demanding, links-influenced test with dramatic elevation change and native tallgrass. Home to Kansas State University's men's and women's programs, the daily-fee course also doubles as an environmental and turf-management teaching laboratory, and it was conceived partly to introduce disadvantaged youth to the game.
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