Towa Golf Club at Buffalo Thunder

Towa Golf Club at Hilton Santa Fe Buffalo Thunder is northern New Mexico's most ambitious resort-golf design, a 27-hole facility (three independent nine-hole courses: Boulder, Pinon, Valley) jointly created by twenty-time PGA Tour winner Hale Irwin and noted golf course designer and landscape architect William 'Bill' Phillips. The Boulder Nine (3,640 yards, Phillips design) and Pinon Nine (3,615 yards, Irwin design) both opened in 2001, with the Valley Nine following in 2008. The property sits in the dramatic scenery of northern New Mexico's Pojoaque Valley, just 12 miles north of the Santa Fe plaza, close enough to be a day-trip target from Santa Fe visitors, far enough to feel genuinely different from the Santa Fe city-golf experience. Towa has earned 'Best Golf Resort in North America' and 'New Mexico's Best Golf Hotel' from the World Golf Awards, credentials that put it in the destination-resort conversation with Paa-Ko Ridge and Black Mesa among New Mexico's top public-access tracks. The on-property Hilton Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino provides stay-and-play packages, which makes Towa the practical anchor for any Santa Fe golf-focused trip. For the Santa Fe / northern NM trip visitor, Towa pairs naturally with Black Mesa (Baxter Spann, Española, 20 min north) and Paa-Ko Ridge (Ken Dye, 90 min south toward Albuquerque) for a three-round northern New Mexico destination-golf package.