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Alto sits at roughly 7,000 feet in the Sacramento Mountains of southern New Mexico, just outside Ruidoso in Lincoln County — a landscape of ponderosa pine, cool summers, and mountain light that draws visitors from the scorching lowlands of Texas and the Southwest. Golf up here plays and feels entirely different from the desert courses down below: the air is thin, the ball travels far, and the setting is genuinely alpine.
Kokopelli Country Club is a private members' club serving this tight-knit mountain community, and its par-63 layout tells you immediately that the design leans toward finesse over length. Courses built to this par are typically built around shorter holes — a concentration of par 3s and shorter par 4s — which at elevation rewards precision, creativity, and course management rather than raw power.
The Ruidoso area has long been a recreational refuge, known for horse racing at Ruidoso Downs and outdoor recreation throughout the Lincoln National Forest. A private club at this altitude, tucked into that ponderosa-lined terrain, tends to feel like a genuine retreat — a place members return to for the mountain air as much as the golf itself.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back · men | 3,814 | 58.3 | 93 | 63 |
| Back · women | 3,814 | 60.6 | 101 | 63 |
| Forward · men | 3,563 | 57.3 | 93 | 63 |
| Forward · women | 3,563 | 59.3 | 98 | 63 |
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