# The Best Golf Courses in Tulsa County, Oklahoma

Source: https://thecourserankings.com/blog/the-best-golf-courses-in-tulsa-county-ok/

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A word of honesty before the ranking. Tulsa County's list is deep in names, seventeen courses across the county, and the top of it is held by private clubs whose reputations were built over decades of Oklahoma golf rather than by any single famous hole the national lists celebrate. This ranking orders them the way Tulsa golfers themselves tend to, by standing, by the strength of the membership test, and by how much of the county's everyday golf each course carries. Where the evidence thins out toward the back of the list, this ranking will say so rather than dress it up.

## 1Tulsa Country Club

The county's standard bearer. Tulsa Country Club carries the name of the city itself and the expectations that come with it, and in local golf it remains the private club against which the others are measured. It takes the top spot on standing and on the simple fact that when Tulsa golfers argue about the county's best course, this is the name the argument starts with.

## 2The Patriot Golf Club

The Patriot takes second on the strength of its reputation as the county's modern statement club, the course Tulsa golfers point to when they want to show a visitor that the county's ambitions did not stop with its oldest names. It concedes the top spot on history and takes everything else seriously.

## 3Cedar Ridge Country Club

Cedar Ridge has been part of the county's serious private golf conversation for as long as that conversation has existed, a fixture in Broken Arrow area golf with a membership that treats it as the east side's answer to the city clubs. Third here is a standing it has held in local regard for years.

## 4Oaks Country Club

The Oaks is the other half of Tulsa's old private core, a traditional club course that local players respect for being exactly what it is, a members' test that does not chase fashion. It sits fourth because the three above it draw more of the county's competitive energy, not because the golf is lesser by much.

## 5The Club at Forest Ridge

Forest Ridge leads the next tier, the master planned community clubs that gave Broken Arrow and the county's growth corridors their own golf identity. It is the strongest of that group and the natural fifth name on any Tulsa County list.

## 6LaFortune Park Championship Course

LaFortune Park carries the county's public golf on its shoulders, and it leads the public half of this ranking by a wide margin. A county is only as healthy in golf as its best public course, and LaFortune is the round Tulsa's everyday players are proudest to point to. The county's course list also carries a Lakes Course among its public facing names, which gives the everyday golfer more than one door into the game here.

## 7Bailey Ranch Golf Club

Bailey Ranch is the other public name Tulsa golfers defend, the municipal style option that keeps the county's public golf honest beyond the city line. It takes seventh as the strongest of the remaining public and daily fee courses.

The rest of the county list, Battle Creek Golf Club, Broken Arrow Golf and Athletic Club, South Lakes Golf Course, The Club at Forest Ridge's neighbors in the community club tier, and the named nine and secondary layouts in the county data including the Championship Course, Olde Page Course, Pecan Valley Course, River Course, Stone Creek Course, and Woodbine Course, is ordinary Oklahoma golf. Some of it is pleasant, some of it is purely functional, and none of it threatens the top seven on the evidence available. A county ranking that pretended otherwise would be lying to you, and Tulsa golfers would spot it immediately. For the statewide frame, see [the Oklahoma state ranking](/blog/the-5-best-golf-courses-in-oklahoma/).

Tulsa golf runs from a country club with the city's name on the door down to park golf at LaFortune, and the county is better for holding both ends of that range within a short drive of each other.

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