The Bert & Ernie Golf Tournament at Pole Creek Golf Club

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Chris

Winter Park, CO Golf Tournament: The Bert & Ernie Classic

The 36th annual Bert & Ernie Golf Tournament is taking shape up here in the Colorado Rockies. The date is September 9th and this should be a great year to get up to the mountains play some golf and help the children.

The tournament will again be held at Pole Creek Golf Club in Tabernash, CO. Pole Creek has been rated the number 1 public golf course in Colorado and is a spectacular layout with 27 holes of challenge and beauty. This year the Bert and Ernie is making an energetic comeback. Register now and you will secure your team’s spot and have a reason to spend the weekend in the mountains.

This years theme is the future is so bright we have to wear shades. Yes! that is WPLCo mascot Willem there on the bottom right in the picture.

The B & E Tourney is a Best Ball Format. Sponsorship opportunities are still available!

Exciting silent auction items ~ Winter Park 2012-2013 season ski passes, restaurants, massages, yoga, SmartWool, Whole Foods, and MORE!

Winter Park Lodging Company is offering a lodging deal for the Bert & Ernie weekend. We are offering a one bedroom condo at the base of Winter Park Resort for $100 a night and a two bedroom for $200 a night, must be a two night stay. This includes all fees and taxes. Also included in the lodging deal is two rounds of golf and cart at Pole Creek with each reservation. Lodging is in the Zephyr Mountain Lodge, Fraser Crossing or Founders Pointe.

The Fraser Creative Learning Center (FCLC) strives to provide a safe and positive learning environment in which children can grow and develop emotionally, intellectually, physically, and socially. The Center realizes this objective through a carefully prepared curriculum balanced with free time for play and social interaction. The Bert & Ernie golf event is the the number one way the FCLC is able to raise dollars for the kids of Winter Park and the Fraser Valley area. So make your plans and get up to the mountains, have some fun and help out these amazing kids.

A foursome of golf is $460 and an individual is $115. Winter Park Lodging Company will be sponsoring the B & E golf classic along with Sharkey’s Eatery and along with some other fine establishments up here in the Winter Park area. Book your Bert & Ernie Pole Creek Golf Lodging and get a great deal today.

Check out the Bert & Ernie Website for more details and sponsorship opportunities.

Bistro 28 at Pole Creek Golf Club

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Chris

Burgers, Beer and Fun in Tabernash , CO

Have you had a chance to play some golf out at Pole Creek Golf Club? Did you get a chance to try some of the vittles at Bistro 28 in the Pole Creek club house?

Well, Bistro 28 is serving up some of the tastiest food in the Winter Park, CO area and the views are just grand. They are also offering up some great food specials. Bistro 28 at Pole Creek is open all through fall and winter for dinner 3 nights a week. Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 4.30pm to 8.30pm with great specials every night. The menu offers a great variety of fresh dishes that include homemade Angus burgers, pizzas, ribs, fish and chips, Thai curries and a great variety of bar food.

Thursday night is Burger Night. Order any burger or pizza and get a free draft beer, house wine or well drink. Friday night is seafood night with great seafood specials. Saturday night is prime rib night with Angus Prime rib. For all the parents out there kids 10 and under eat fee before 6PM.

Nigel Conners, manager of Bistro 28, has done a great job with the wine offerings and the quality of service. So head out early with the kids have a glass of wine or two and relax under the majestic Rocky Mountains and the kids eat free. Now that sounds like a fun evening.

If you didn’t get a chance to paticipate in the full moon snowshoe or cross country ski at Pole Creek Golf Course last winter, make sure to hit the cross country ski and dinner this year. Ski and snowshoe trails for all levels with complimentary hot chocolate and Schnapps out on the course.

Pole Creek Golf Course

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Chris

Colorado Mountain Golf

The sun is finally out up here in Tabernash and the golf courses are open. Pole Creek opened this season on May 15th but the first week or so was hampered by some classic Colorado spring mountain weather. This year promises to a great year for Pole Creek as this is the second year with the new club house and Bistro 28.

Have you been out to play the fine 27 up here in Tabernash? Well here is a little info on Grand County’s golfing pride and joy.

Pole Creek Golf Club is one of the few public 27-hole courses in Colorado and the only one in Grand County County Colorado. Pole Creek’s 7,107-yard course wanders through lush fields sporting native wildflowers, drastic elevation changes, vast bent greens and water challenge shots over two ponds and five lakes. The Ridge 9 course challenges experts to a rigorous game with 3,603-yard shots and tree-lined holes, while the more gentle Meadow 9 and Ranch 9 - accommodatesall playing levels. All three courses play to par 36.

Pole Creek’s design was conceived by Denis Griffiths, who incorporated existing lodgepole pine, valley meadows, sagebrush and a variety of water hazards including five lakes to create a diverse course appealing to a wide range of golfers.

The views at Pole Creek are some of the most spectacular you will see in all of Colorado.

So no that our winter is turning right into summer come on out and see what Pole Creek Golf Club has to offer high up here in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Golf at Pole Creek Golf Club. Colorado’s #1 Public Course!

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Chris

With all the snow on the ground up here in Winter Park it is a little hard to think about golf at this time but we have been having some warm days up here this week so my my mind is starting to make the spring switch. Here in the Rocky Mountains it seems we go from one week of spring skiing at Winter Park Resort and the next week playing golf at Pole Creek Golf Club (do you play golf or just golf?). I think the three nine hole courses are out of this world. Sarah and I live only a three minute drive from the clubhouse which makes it all the better.

Here is a brief description of the course from Pole Creek’s website http://www.polecreekgolf.com/index.html:

“Pole Creek Golf Club is one of the few public 27-hole courses in Colorado and the only one in Grand County. Pole Creek’s 7,107-yard course meanders through lush fields replete with native wildflowers, drastic elevation changes, vast bent greens and water challenge shots over two ponds and five lakes. The Ridge 9 course challenges experts to a rigorous game with 3,603-yard shots and tree-lined holes, while the mellower Meadow 9 and Ranch 9 - indulge all playing levels. All three courses play to par 36. Pole Creek Colorado Golf Course is a member of the Colorado Golf Association.”

Here are some of the awards the course has won in the last few years:

2006 – Zagat Survey – Best course to play in the Rocky Mountain Region including CO, ID, MT, NV, UT & WY.

2005 – Avid Golfer Magazine:

5th best course to bring out of town guests
Best Finishing hole #9 Ridge
2nd Place – Best Public Mountain Course
3rd Place – Best Golf Course in the $50-$99 range
4th Place – Most Scenic Course (public or Resort)
3rd Place – Most underrated Golf Course (public or resort)

2004 – Denver Post, Colorado Peaks – Best Mountain Golf Course

2003 – Rocky Mountain News – Top Mountain Golf Course – Top of the Rockies Award

1995 – Golf Digest – Americas 500 best places you can play – Colorado #1 Pole Creek

The clubhouse restaurant is Bistro 28 at Pole Creek Golf Club. The Sunday brunch is fantastic! They have remodled the clubhouse and bar this year so we will keep you posted how that turned out when they open up here in a couple of months.

Pole Creek Golf Club is also a great place for weddings. From our back deck of our house we can hear the celebrations going on over at the Club.

We here at Winter Park Lodging by Owner (WPLBO) are looking to partner with Pole Creek in the near future. In the mean time we will match any of their summer play and stay deals.

Now lets go hit the driving range and wash the winter rust off the swing!