Sanctuary Golf Course — Attraction in Castle Pines

this review has nothing to do about the venue, but my coordinator Tamara. a month before the wedding she laid on me she couldn't decorate even though in the beginning she promised that they could. It was one of the selling points & 3 other people heard her say that multiple times. it sounded like she couldn't do any of it. after a call I found out that typically she has an assistant and that day of my wedding she wouldn't have one which is why i believe that this is why there was a sudden change in mind. she told me that she would find an assistant that it would be okay. That all i needed to do was come to the rehearsal about 12 & build the alter, the day of the wedding have the groom/groomsmen come in to move the alter & that she ONLY needed them to move the boxes of my decorations. I made very easy and broken down instructions, it was organized, i made an index of where everything was, labeled very box & put a list on the outside saying was inside since i made all my decor. we show up 1230 of the rehearsal and she tells me she wasnt expecting me until 130. she forgot that i could come in early. I pushed it aside since she let us start bringing stuff in. then she is asking me how im going to get my cord and vow books as there is no table at the alter. I had already talked to her about putting a table at the alter over the phone. she forgot about that. then she made a comment of how "we weren't the only wedding that was making her do all this stuff this weekend" which tells me that we were not the only wedding she had promised to decorate for and did the same thing. Remember how she said she'd find an assistant? Nope she didnt have one. On wedding day i find out from my husband/groomsmen she was nowhere to be found for 2 hours. They did nearly all the decorating, including decorating ALL the aisle which she TOLD ME she could do. the audio guest book i had, which had instructions in it, was not turned on. I'm glad i caught it in time. Our cake topper? It had a missing piece. I asked where the frame was for it, she said "Oh i saw that but didnt know what it was for." I had place a picture literally right on top of the cake topper in the box so when she saw it, it would be the first thing she saw. I also emailed her about it. I don't understand why you would see a piece in a box, ignore the photo and just automatically think 'I dont know what this is for so Im just not going to use it'. she continuously rushed my girls and I to hurry only for her to hold off on starting the ceremony because there wasnt enough people there yet. Out of all the things to start late i would have thought the ceremony would not be one of them. Then she had moved the chairs from my side to the grooms side WITHOUT asking me or confronting me about it. I DID NOT tell her to do that for a reason! i only had about 30 people, my husband had about 120. so now it was completely uneven which I didn't want. also, we were told our locker rooms were private after 130. THEY WERE NOT. we had people walking in to use the restroom. She constantly forgot my husband and I were eating during cocktail hour alone.I understand that she has a lot of weddings, but these are very big things to forget. I feel like she should have taken better notes. Over 20 people from my party/family individually complained to me about her. They said she was a mess, all over the place, unorganized & was the cause of their stress on their wedding. she was more stressed that any of us. My DJ and photographers carried my wedding.The fact that 20 people complained to me w/o my influence is crazy. If you plan to have your wedding here, do not work with Tarmara. She will stress you out so much and honestly really kind ruined parts of my wedding. and if she tries to say that my instructions were confusing, I had a gentleman offer to help that's a family friend but not in the wedding party. Never even seen my vision or my instructions before and he was able to read them and go through and set everything up. even items that she was supposed to be doing...

I recently got married at the Sanctuary this past July. I cannot recommend this wedding venue enough. This place is just magical and blew every expectation we had for our wedding day out of the water. Everything about this venue is so pristine- to the service to the stunning natural beauty, we were and still are in awe of The Sanctuary. The Sanctuary is so unique in that you can have your ceremony outside in the covered pavilion that frames Pike's Peak where you don't have to worry about Colorado's infamous late afternoon storms. Your guests then move to the breathtaking terrace overlooking the Rocky Mountains. Dinner is served inside the classic, stunning clubhouse, and then we opted to have our dance back outside under the stone pavilion. We had such a wonderful experience working with Julie Gambrell as our wedding coordinator. She was so on top of everything that we didn't have to worry one bit leading up to our special day. We even had a chance to meet the General Manager, Rudy Zupetz, who was also so helpful and amazing. The staff that they have trained here are all just incredible and go over the top to make sure everyone is having an exceptional time. The next day, my husband and I tried to think of anything that went wrong and we couldn't think of a thing- it was perfect. This venue takes care of it all for you. The compliments we received on the food, service, and overall ambiance of the venue were countless. So many people told us that our wedding was like a fairytale and I 100% can say it was because of The Sanctuary. At the end of the night, my friends, family, and I didn't want to leave because it's just such an incredible place! Trust me when I say you can not go wrong with booking this wedding venue. It is hands down the best decision we made in our wedding...

Let me tell you something about The Sanctuary — and I use that word literally, not metaphorically. This isn’t a golf course. It’s a holy hallucination carved into the granite bones of Colorado, a place where the fairways run wild and the elk stare at you like you owe them money. I’ve played a lot of courses, but nothing — nothing — prepares you for this one.

Start with the setup: two members. That’s it. Just two human beings officially call this place home — Dave and Gail Liniger, the mad geniuses behind RE/MAX, who built this private Eden not for themselves, but as a launching pad for charity. If you've played here, chances are it was for a good cause — veterans, children, cancer research, rescue dogs, wounded horses, maybe even wounded golfers. Who knows. It all counts.

There’s no tee sheet. No starter. No crowd of Range Rovers jostling for valet. You don’t "book" The Sanctuary — you get invited, like some kind of spiritual calling. And once you’re inside the gates, it hits you — the wildlife isn’t just decoration. It’s part of the ecosystem. Deer cross the cart paths like they own the place. Bears leave paw prints in the bunkers. I saw elk footprints on the green, like some ghost tournament had finished just before dawn.

And the course itself? Jim Engh must’ve been possessed when he designed this thing. It’s dramatic, defiant, and full of elevation changes that make your knees question your choices. Tee shots fall out of the sky like missiles. Greens hide behind canyons. It’s not just a round of golf — it’s a high-altitude psychotropic experience delivered one hole at a time.

This is golf the way it was meant to be played.

It’s beautiful. It’s brutal. And it truly is...