I had a great day of golf recently playing with my son on his seventh birthday, his first round of golf ever. We played at a local course called Spring Valley in Elizabeth, Colorado. Designed by Ross Graves, the course is an inexpensive ($35 + cart, if you wish it) course in a somewhat wooded valley. It is walkable, with only one long walk between holes that happens to occur on one of the prettiest, flattest part of the property. I'll post a couple pictures of the course, although I don't know that the architecture will wow anyone. I liked the fourth hole a lot, a reachable par-4, but was really unimpressed with the par-3's, as all were fairly nodescript, to my mind. I'd be interested if anyone can tell me about Ross Graves, what he's done elsewhere, etc.
The par-three second from the tee
The 4th from the fairway
Greenside bunkering at the 11th (complete with tree)
The 17th from the forward tees
Rumpled fairway (the only one on the course that was really like that) at the 18th
The greens had some nice slope, and were fun to putt, but slow, although the entire course was pretty wet after some heavy rain the night before.