Scotts Bluff Country Club is the Panhandle’s old guard. Established in 1916 in Gering and relocated to its current site north of Scottsbluff in 1973, it’s a private, member-owned club with a Frank Hummel championship design at 6,951 yards — traditional tree-lined golf with strategic bunkering, an indoor simulator, tennis, pool, and the full country club apparatus.
The course has personality. The heavily wooded right side of the long par-5 15th is known as “Sherwood Forest,” and the short par-4 14th — nicknamed the “Corn-Hole” — doglegs sharply left around an actual cornfield, where big pines guard the corner and long hitters can take a hero’s line at the green. It’s the rare championship course that feels like it grew out of farm country, because it did.
Private and members-only, with guest play through members. It hosts the Platte Valley Pro-Am and a busy member-guest calendar — this is the competitive heart of Panhandle golf.