Sugarloaf Golf Course

• Par 72   
• Distance: 6,910 yards
• Ratings by tees: Blues-74.4; Back Whites-72.3; Front Whites-70; Forward-73.7
• Slope ratings by tees: Blues-151; Back Whites-146; Front Whites-141; Forward-136
• By handicap  #5 most difficult hole / #10 easiest hole

Call (207) 237-6812 or reserve online.  To schedule a tee time with lodging or to inquire about the Sugarloaf Golf Club during the winter months, call 1-800-THE LOAF.

Strokes Bar and Grill, located in the Clubhouse, serves homemade breakfasts and lunches every day of the season.  The Pro Shop, open daily mid-May through Mid-October from dawn until dusk, offers equipment rentals plus a full line of apparel and accessories.

The Sugarloaf Golf School has been recognized as one of the top 30 golf schools in the United States. Programs include beginner weeks, short game tune-up weekends, and customized women's programs as well as the Nike Fitting Center. Sugarloaf is also Maine's only location for the world-famous Nike Junior Golf Camps. The practice facilities offer a driving range with designated golf school tees, two short-game areas for pitching and sand wedge practice, and a putting green.

• The course record is 68 from the championship tees, 69 from the blue tees, and 67 from the white tees.
• Though golfers regularly drive the green on the par-4 10th, there has been only one hole-in-one ever officially recorded on the hole, in 2009. 
• The 10th tee is 90 vertical feet above the fairway and the 11th tee is 125 feet above.
• The front and back nines vary by 300 feet in elevation.
•  The greens are Penncross creeping bent grass, the tees are Pen Way creeping bent grass, and the fairways are Penncross, Seaside and Emerald Astoria creeping bent grass.
• Roughly 100 bat houses, (50 male and 50 female) and 100 swallow houses are around the course.
• Wildlife includes deer, moose, red-tailed fox, grouse, pileated woodpeckers, black bears, rabbits, broadwing hawks, various species of ducks, Canadian geese, minks and the eastern coyote.
• The first six holes of the back nine frame the Carrabassett River and were named by Robert Trent Jones Jr., as the "String of Pearls."

 Golf Digest:  

• #1 Golf Course in Maine 1985-2009, 2011-2014
• #45 of America's 100 Greatest Public Courses, 2007
• #30 of America's 100 Greatest Public Courses, 2005
• #45 of America's Top 100 Greatest Public Courses, 2003
• Top 10 Courses in the USA for Memorability and Aesthetics, 1997
• #1 Upscale Course You Can Play in New England, 1996
• #23 of the Top 75 Upscale Courses You Can Play in the USA, 1996
• Top 100 You Can Play in the USA, 1999 

Golfweek:

• # Golf Course in Maine, 1997, 2017
• Top 200 Resort Courses, 2016
• Golfweek's 100 Best Resort Courses, 2007, 2009
• 41 of America's Best 100 Golf Resorts, 2005
• #1 Public Course in Maine, 2003
• #1 Public Course in Maine, 2002

Golf Styles Boston: Top 100 Must Play Courses of New England, 2005

NE Journal of Golf: #1 of the Top 100 Courses You Can Play in New England, 2004, 2003

Links Magazine: #14 of the Hidden Gems that Anyone Can Play, 2000

Golf Digest For Women:

• Top 100 You Can Play in the USA, 1999
• #16 of the Best Places to Play in America, 1998 

Golf Magazine:

• Top 100 Courses You Can Play, 2004, 2002, 2000
• #1 Course You Can Play in New England, 1998
• #20 of the Top 100 You Can Play in the USA, 1998

Best of Northeast Golf: Best Overall Courses, 2006 

Boston Magazine: Top 10 Golf Holes in New England (11th Hole), 1996

American Golf Resort Guide:  Top 150 Most Collectible Courses in the World