St. George Golf Club sits on the southeast side of town along Ft. Pearce Wash, the drainage that runs out toward the Warner Valley and the petroglyph country east of I-15. It opened in 1976 as the third municipal course in the city’s lineup, and at par 73, it remains one of the only courses in the state with five par-5s.
Five Par-5s and Water on the Threes
David Bingham routed the course with two distinguishing features that locals point to first. There are five par-5s — most courses have four — which is what pushes the par to 73 instead of 72. And the par-3s play over water. Several of them. The pond crossings on the short holes are the things that remove balls from sleeves over an eighteen-hole round. From the championship tees the course stretches to roughly 7,217 yards, which makes it the longest of the four St. George municipal courses by a comfortable margin.
Built for the Average Player
The greens are large and forgiving — not Sand Hollow Championship-Course large, but built to be missable. The fairways are wide. The course was designed for the player who shows up on Tuesday morning shooting in the 90s, and the routing reflects that. There’s room to miss left, room to miss right, and the trouble is concentrated on the par-3s where the water actually matters.
The Snowbird Anchor on the East Side
The fourth municipal course completes a geographic spread: Dixie Red Hills under the cliffs north of downtown, Southgate on the southwest along Tonaquint, Sunbrook out west by the Santa Clara River, and St. George Golf Club on the southeast along Ft. Pearce. A snowbird booking through City of St. George Leisure Services can rotate all four in a week without driving more than fifteen minutes between the parking lots.
The course is also the one with the longest yardage in the municipal system — useful when out-of-state players want a course that rewards distance and they don’t want to pay the resort rates at Sand Hollow Championship or The Ledges. Par 73, five par-5s, water on the threes, and a city tee sheet. That’s the pitch.
For visitors building a Washington County card, St. George Golf Club is the eastern stop, the long course in the municipal four, and the one that came in just after Southgate to bring the city’s public-golf inventory to its modern shape.