The Cedar Hills Golf Club, at the mouth of the canyon

It is open, and through the 2026 season it has not been a full eighteen holes. Cedar Hills Golf reopened on March 9, 2026 with nine holes and the six hole Short Course while a new irrigation system went in, opened all eighteen for part of July and August, then returned to the front nine only later in August for the rest of the year as the next phase of work went on. A full round means playing the front nine twice, with the second round booked about two and a half hours after the first. Call the pro shop on (801) 796-1705 for the setup on the day you come.

The City of Cedar Hills. It is a municipal course, bought with a general obligation bond that residents narrowly approved in 2001, run through the city's own golf fund and priced on a published rate card with a resident line on almost every row. That public ownership is why the pricing is what it is, why a city council debates the bunkers, and why the course has been the single most argued about subject in local politics for the better part of twenty five years.

Cedar Hills sets the rates itself and prints them on a card it reissues each year, with a lower resident line on almost every row that you claim with a current utility bill. As of 2026 an eighteen hole round runs in the fifties of dollars to ride and the thirties to walk on a weekday, a nine hole round costs less, and the six hole Short Course is the cheapest thing on the property at roughly ten to fifteen dollars. Carts are required Friday through Sunday and on holidays, so there is no walking rate then. Season passes run into four figures by type, and residents take a set amount off any pass. Check the current card or call the pro shop on (801) 796-1705 before you budget.

A separate six hole par three course of 60 to 115 yards, designed by John Fought and built in 2022 on the ground the driving range used to occupy. It is walking only by design, a round takes about three quarters of an hour, and it accepts groups of up to six rather than the usual four. It was added in part to resolve a safety problem with the old range configuration, and through the whole 2026 construction season it stayed open while the main course was reduced, which made it the more dependable of the two layouts.

Par 71, at roughly 6,600 yards. The par 72 figure still circulates and it is out of date. The fifteenth plays as a par 4, and during the renovation the city looked at spending several hundred thousand dollars to turn it back into a par 5 and chose not to. So the card stays at 71 unless a future council decides to spend the money.

Enough to define the course, though the number people quote describes the property rather than the play. The high point is the fourteenth green at 5,253 feet, which stands about 750 feet above the American Fork River in the canyon below the property. That is the drop from the top of the site to the water at the bottom of the drainage, not elevation change inside a hole. What you actually play is best captured by the opening tee shot, which falls close to 200 feet from the box to the fairway.

Because a small city bought it with public debt and then lost money on it for a decade. Residents narrowly approved the bond in 2001, the course lost roughly half a million dollars a year from 2004 onward, and by March 2013 the operating losses and bond obligation together came to about 4.3 million dollars. The politics that followed included recall efforts, resignations and elections fought on the subject. The city has now chosen to keep and reinvest rather than sell, which is its own argument.

No. In July 2024 the mayor floated the idea of a boutique hotel and restaurant on roughly ten acres at the canyon mouth end of the golf property as a way to help retire the bond. It was discussed and it was not approved. Nothing has been funded and nothing has been built. Announced is not built, and in this case the idea did not even reach the announced stage, so it should carry no weight in a decision about buying or visiting here.

Yes. The clubhouse at 10640 North Clubhouse Drive holds the Vista Room, the city's rentable banquet and event space, which takes weddings, receptions and corporate bookings and is the only venue of its kind inside the city limits. The same building also carries the Community Recreation Center, which is where the City Council meets. The practical consequence for anyone visiting is that the clubhouse parking lot serves three separate uses at once, so a quiet tee sheet does not mean an empty lot.