Antelope Hills Golf Course - North Course

The Antelope Hills North Course is the original muni in Prescott, it opened in 1956 and has been the town's resident public-golf anchor ever since. Architect Lawrence Hughes, who is best known in the Southwest for Las Vegas's Desert Inn and Dunes and whose work includes several Palm Springs originals, laid out a tight, traditional parkland layout that takes full advantage of Prescott's high-desert microclimate, mile-high elevation keeps summer temperatures 15-20 degrees cooler than Phoenix, so the course plays through the summer while the Valley of the Sun bakes. At 6,539 yards, par 72, 69.7 rating and 121 slope, the North is the more traditional and tighter of Antelope Hills' two courses. Fifty-foot-tall elm trees frame the corridors, bentgrass greens run quick by Prescott standards, and the short length keeps scoring within reach for mid-handicappers while the pine-tree pinch and doglegs demand position off the tee. For a Sedona-based trip visitor, the ~90-minute drive south to Prescott delivers a completely different golf experience, high-desert parkland instead of red-rock drama, and at muni pricing.