Valley View Golf Course

I had the opportunity to play this course today and I absolutely loved it. This is now one of my favorite public courses to play in northern Utah. The greens were well kept, fees were very reasonable (although I did pay a special winter rate), staff was friendly and courteous, and the course itself offered a fun experience along with a perfect blend of difficulty. There is plenty of elevation changes which offer a unique experience of the beautiful mountains and enough variety to keep it interesting. Although some have said this course plays long I didn’t notice a difference between other public courses in Salt Lake City. I play from the men’s tees (blue) and most par 4’s were driver and anywhere from 100 – 175 yards in. The shortest par 3 was 160 and the longest being 195. Overall I enjoyed my round here and even spotted several deer on the par 5 17^th. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who is looking for a scenic, fun, and unique course.

This is a great course with great views. I’ve spent most of my time on courses in Colorado, Idaho and Utah. This course is definitely in the top 3 public courses that I’ve played.
If you’ve played Bountiful Ridge (which I like), you’d really like Valley View.

This course could easily be one of the top municipal courses, for the money, in all of America! Great challenges on each hole, not too punishing. Greens are very deceiving, remember they always break to the lake! Played with lots of people from different areas who say it’s nicer than most country clubs where they’re from. You get a little bit of everything here, elevated tees, quick greens, longer 5’s and short 4’s. Played alot of courses in Utah, and this probably is one of the best. They do have a tendency to push people out when it’s logjammed.

Probably the best public course in Northern Utah, Valley View has it all: serious length, elevation changes, challenging greens, great views, mature trees, water, wildlife, excellent practice areas, brutal finishing holes, and reasonable pace of play.
Bring your game.

On vacation, stopped and played 18 here, somewhat challenging and in very good shape, shot a decent 83 from the red tees, lol… Funny I shot under my handicap, but putted slight badly, as the green were fast and did break funny, unless you play often, you knew which way they broke. Only disappointment was I had to teed off on hole number 10, and the 2 =some that I was suppose to play with was not there, so I just hit down the fairway and caught up with the 3-​some that was 2 holes in front of me and joined them. Somehow there was some confusion in the pro shop??? Because when we finally finish the back 9, and came back to start the front nine (hole 1), somebody else’s foursome was in front of us??? Not the group we were following?
One of the guys complain to pro shop, they when down to speak to foursome, as there became a backlog on number one??? I think they were suppose to start on hole 10, but got confused??? Anyway they held us up a little bit and finally they let us go thru after pushing them on 4 holes, lol… The price was decent $ 37 inc cart, Stay in the fairway shoot a good round, of course the correct side of the fairways, and most holes need to hit the green below the holes, remember slightly fast greens, some with weird breaks…

This golf course is deceivingly difficult. There are very few level fairways… even your best drives will give you less than a perfect stance for your second shot. Nestled in the hills of Layton, there are plenty of ups and downs, and it plays LONG. The downside is the lack of professionalism in the Pro Shop. More gregarious folk can be found in holding cells of the local jails.