Is Eagle Hills Golf Course open to the public? Yes. It is a daily-fee public course; anyone can book a tee time directly through the course or through GolfNow, with no membership required.
Course details and how it plays
Eagle Hills plays to a par of 72 from four marked tees, and the gap between the back and forward sets changes which course a mid-handicap golfer actually faces. The GolfPass course record lists all four sets with their own rating and slope.
The four tee sets
| Tee | Par | Yardage | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 72 | 6,410 | 70.3 | 124 |
| Blue | 72 | 6,049 | 68.7 | 118 |
| White | 72 | 5,461 | 65.1 | 108 |
| Gold | 72 | 5,191 | 67.1 | 103 |
From the tips the slope of 124 is a mid-range championship number. From the Gold tees, 1,219 yards shorter, the slope drops to 103. A golfer choosing Blue over Black picks up about 360 fewer yards and six fewer rating points of difficulty in the same round.
Who this course suits
Course reviewers rate friendliness at 4.6 out of 5, the highest of any tracked category, while conditions and value sit lower at 3.9 and 3.7. Several recent reviewers independently describe the course as beginner-friendly and “not too challenging for the avid golfer.” One flags a specific hazard: tighter fairways mean a badly sliced shot can find a house on several holes. First-time golfers, corporate groups, and juniors get a layout built for them. A scratch player hunting a stern test from the tips should look elsewhere in the Treasure Valley.
Is Eagle Hills good for beginners? Recent reviewers consistently describe it as forgiving and beginner-friendly, with the main hazard being wayward shots near the houses that line several fairways rather than the course’s overall difficulty.
Rates, hours, and booking
The clubhouse operates daily; a business-directory listing puts hours at 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., a figure worth confirming by phone since seasonal hours can shift and this is directory data rather than a posted first-party schedule. Booking runs through the course’s own foreUP system or through GolfNow via GolfPass. One reviewer called Eagle Hills “little expensive even booking through GolfNow,” though the course does not publish a direct-booking discount to confirm the gap against the counter rate.
| Rate scenario | Eagle Hills, 18 holes + cart, tax included | RedHawk (Nampa), 18 holes + cart, before tax |
|---|---|---|
| Monday to Thursday | $78 | about $74.53 |
| Friday, Sunday, and holidays | $92 | about $83.96 |
| Twilight, after 3 p.m. | $65 | RedHawk’s after-3pm deal is a 6-hole “Pit” special, a different product, not a comparable full 18 |
Eagle Hills costs more than RedHawk’s 2026 rate sheet on both a weekday and a weekend round, even before tax is added to the RedHawk figures. That lines up with a GolfPass reviewer’s direct comparison: $90 at Eagle Hills the same week as $80 at RedHawk, with the reviewer calling Eagle Hills “a muni” by comparison. The two courses also structure their junior discount differently. Eagle Hills lets a golfer 17 or under play 18 holes for the 9-hole rate when paired with a paying adult. RedHawk instead cuts its full 18-hole rate in half for the same age group, with no adult-pairing requirement.
What golfers should know before they go
- No food before noon. Multiple reviewers were surprised the grill has nothing but microwaved hot dogs before the afternoon; plan breakfast elsewhere for an early tee time.
- Frost delays can outlast the delay itself. A November round reported greens still frozen across all 18 holes after the delay lifted, producing 12 to 20 foot bounces. The same reviewer noted a nearby course played under identical conditions a few days earlier had normal, receptive greens.
- Aeration and sanding can close the front nine without advance notice. A spring 2025 reviewer paid full price for a round with the front nine shut and no warning given at booking. Asking the pro shop about current conditions before paying is a reasonable precaution.
- Cart-girl beverage service runs the course, a detail several reviewers mention favorably.
- The active and retired military discount applies to online bookings, not only counter purchases. One reviewer specifically thanked the course for this after finding other Treasure Valley courses restrict the discount to in-person purchases.
How do I avoid a surprise closure or slow round? Call the pro shop the morning of your round to ask about aeration, frost delay, or maintenance closures before paying, since none of that shows up on the booking site itself.
History and a factual discrepancy worth flagging
How old is Eagle Hills Golf Course? Sources disagree: the operator says 1967, GolfPass says 1960, and a course directory says 1960 as a nine-hole layout expanded to eighteen holes in 1975. No primary record confirms any of the three.
Amenities beyond the course
Beyond the 18 holes, Eagle Hills runs a full-service event center and casual restaurant, added Trackman golf simulator bays in January 2023, and hosts 15 to 20 charitable tournaments a year, including a Thanksgiving-weekend event run for over 30 years. Group and private instruction runs through Director of Golf Kyle Weeks, a 9-year PGA member.
Eagle Hills and the surrounding North Eagle area
For readers weighing more than a single round, the course anchors three residential neighborhoods along its fairways: Eagle Hills West, Eagle Hills East, and Melvins Eagle Pointe. One listing in the nearby Countryside Estates subdivision backs directly onto the course’s 5th hole and is marketed with no HOA, a detail worth noting for a buyer who wants golf-course frontage without association rules attached. This is not course-official information, and no property-value claim is made here beyond what these listings themselves state. A separate listing a few streets over, in the same 83616 zip code, describes itself as four minutes from the course and a five to seven minute drive to downtown Eagle.
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