Firekeeper Golf Course voted 2011 Golfweek's Best New Course!

Firekeeper golf course has been selected as one of the 2011 Golfweek's Best New Courses, by a nationwide team of esteemed course raters.  Reserved exclusively for courses that opened in 2010 or 2011, this elite ranking is a remarkable accomplishment and a true testament to the quality of the Firekeeper Golf Course.  This award puts Firekeeper Golf Course ahead of other great properties like Murder Rock (Branson, MO) and TPC San Antioni (home of a PGA Tour stop).

Firekeeper Golf Course is the newest economic endeavor of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and is located in Mayetta, Kansas, 15 miles north of Topeka just off Highway 75.   Firekeeper is the first signature course of four-time PGA Tour winner Notah Begay III, the only full-blooded Native American on the tour.  He designed Firekeeper in partnership with Jeffrey D. Brauer, ASGCA.  Brauer has designed other Kansas courses, Colbert Hills in Manhattan and Sand Creek Station in Newton.

The course is a par 72 and has four par fives, four par threes and ten par fours.  Firekeeper can play as long as 7,500 yards from the longest tees or as short as 4,500 yards from the forward tees.  The course features bent grass tees, fairways, and greens with fescue rough.  Holes number one and six share the same huge green and although unique to a Kansas course this blends perfectly with the natural design.  The only real hazards that come into play are the tall native prairie grass that helps define the holes but is positioned well off the fairways and an occasional creek that meanders the heavenly back nine.

The appeal of the Firekeeper is that unlike golf courses that are designed for the purpose of building houses it is and will remain free of residential bustle.  Tees are close to the last green and the routing is easy to follow.  at Firekeeper you hear and see all that nature has to offer.  Firekeeper opens with seven holes in the prairie and finishes with eleven holes of natural Kansas creeks, rolling hills, and trees.  Firekeeper has no weak holes and you can comfortably hit a driver off most every tee.  Potential signature holes include the long five par fourth hole which measures six hundred and twenty five yards and has a huge fairway bunker you must avoid off the tee and a massive mounded green bordered by sand.  Hole number nine is a long four which resemble the eighteenth at Augusta national and will play uphill into a south breeze.

Firekeeper is open to the public.  There's a drive involved but it is well worth your effort.  As Firekeeper is the only true resort course in Kansas service will be unparalleled at an exceptional value.