A dozen great places to play: sizing up corporate event venues.

• Author: Baines, Gary
• Position: BETTER CORPORATE TOURNAMENTS

Here's look at costs and amenities offered for corporate events at a dozen courses along the Front Range. A sampling of public, private, semi-private and resort courses is included. Price quotes are for a summer outing and generally include greens fees, carts, practice balls and gift certificates/credit for merchandise in the golf shop.

Broadmoor Golf Club

COLORADO SPRINGS

Combines beauty--sitting at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain--with a rich history. Most recently, the 90-year-old Broadmoor East course hosted the 2008 U.S. Senior Open, and the course will be the venue for the 2011 U.S. Women's Open. In Golf World magazine's inaugural Readers' Choice Awards, the Broadmoor was named the 12th-best golf resort in the nation.

To play golf at one of the resort's three courses, you must stay at the Broadmoor Hotel. The resort hosts 39,000 corporate or charity event rounds per year on the three courses combined.

CORPORATE EVENT RATES: $230 per person on the East course, $195 on the West or Mountain courses.

CommonGround Golf Course

AURORA

The new course on the site of the former Lowry Air Force Base doesn't open to the general public until May 23, but it had already booked 2,000 corporate and charity event rounds by early December. This Tom Doak-designed course is owned by the Colorado Golf Association and the Colorado Women's Golf Association. CORPORATE EVENT RATES: roughly $75 per person with a meal.

Fox Hill Country Club

LONGMONT

Considered one of the most affordable private clubs in the Denver metro area. The course features 1,400 trees.

CORPORATE EVENT RATES: $90 per person, which includes some food and beverage.

Green Valley Ranch Golf Club

Denver

This public facility in northeast Denver hosts the HealthOne Colorado Open Championships each year. It draws 7,000 to 7,500 total tournament/event rounds each year.

Corporate Event Rates: $60 per person.

Lakewood Country Club

The private club celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008. Its new 38,250-square-foot clubhouse is a big attraction. Typically the course hosts 25 to 30 Monday events each year. "Our approach to a corporate outing is we run it just like a member-guest, with all the bells and whistles," director of golf Tim Lollar said. "We're in the long-term relationship business. We don't want to have to market to new (customers) all the time. We want to get you and keep you."

CORPORATE EVENT RATES: $120 per person.

Meridian Golf Club

ENGLEWOOD

This Jack Nicklaus-designed course was one of...