Well, anything after Stonecreek will be an upgrade.
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Either course at Camelback Golf Club are probably a good option. Close to where you’re staying, and not too desert penal. Personal preference is the Ambiente course.
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Solid suggestion. Ambiente is the preference, for sure. Not a desert course, but a fun design. The other course, Padre, is just a parkland course and not all that interesting (but still quite highly priced).
Obviously there’s TPC Scottsdale. It’s insanely expensive but most will know the course from the tournament and you’d be playing it with some of the infrastructure still up so that would be fun. The Champions course across the street there is also quite good.
There are places that maybe aren’t local favorites but are perfect if you have not been here before and someone else is paying and not bothered by a high green fee:
- Grayhawk (Raptor hosted the NCAAs for a few years and a PGA Tour event for a while, Talon had some kind of event back in the 90s). Both courses are well conditioned and pretty.
- Troon North is up on the mountain and very desert golf. Memorable, beautiful.
- Quintero is out in the middle of nowhere. IMO it’s a shining example of play it once and love it, play it more than once and hate it but hey, you’re probably only going to play it once.
- The best public faciilty in the Valley is WeKoPa. Their Saguaro Course is a Coore/Crenshaw design that is desert golf but not so much target golf as a place like Troon North. IMO far and away the best public course in this fair state. The other course there is also quite good. Cholla is more of a tradtional target golf layout, but a good rendition of that style of golf. WeKoPa is out east of town but not a terrible drive from where you’ll be staying.
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Posting this here too in case there’s someone interested who isn’t following the Tumbleweed event thread.
I’m coming to town next week for the Tumbleweed Two Ball. I have a foursome booked at Southern Dunes on Thursday, March 5 at 8:32 AM. Right now it’s just me and @GolfGuyRN. Would love to get two more people to join us to fill out the foursome. If there’s no interest by the end of the week I’m gonna give the open spots back to the course. Holler if you want to bail on work to golf instead.
For any locals or visitors in town on Sunday, 3/8, we have one more spot available for our team event at Aguila.
I just last minute booked a trip to AZ for next week and had a 7:30 something tee time at southern dunes same day then saw this. I would join yours if it’s still open.
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Still open. All yours.
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Looking to fill one spot this Saturday afternoon at Dobson between 1:42 and 2:00. Lots of roadrunners in our group so a good option for Dry Heat quota rounds, matches, and general camaraderie.
I may be able to, will know for sure by Thursday afternoon
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Returning to Aguila tomorrow afternoon (Sat 3/14). Have at least 1 spot open at 1:20pm & will confirm if one additional spot opens up if anyone wants to join.
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Coming out to Scottsdale Oct. 16-19, which I had no idea would be peak over seed szn. Played Quintero last spring before greens were torn up. From websites and calling courses, this is the list that of courses that are open those dates.
Quintero, Grayhawk Talon, AK Chin, Troon North Pinnacle, open to other suggestions. Any private courses that would accommodate an out of town guest with letter from my pro?
At that time of year, your best bet is to reference the AZGA Overseed list - which includes public and private courses
That will narrow down what’s even open to play, most open tracks are packed AF because capacity is much lower than normal.
Unsure about privates, but I cold emailed Silverleaf in 2024 about an unaccompanied tee time in the summer and they were open to it (for $350 bones) so won’t hurt to try.
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Random question, I have a set of irons I need built and I don’t currently have all the stuff to do it and have never built a full set. Anyone know of anyone in the West valley who builds? Preferably cheap, alternatively the Van’s down the road does it for $22/club…? Head, shaft, grips and all
Is anyone planning on going out to the LPGA tournament over the weekend? The forecast is making my question my desire to go out this year, but I could still be convinced if any of you are headed out there.
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I’m incredibly bummed I won’t be making it this year. Last year was a great time.
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I’ll be there Saturday morning with my Dad, Andi, and Iris.
Considering the forecast we probably won’t be there much past 10:30 am-ish. Text me know if you end up going!
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I imagine anything open that time of year is already post overseed so you will want to get a sense of when they reopened. If the course jus reopened it is truly not going to be worth playing, certainly not for the rates that those courses charge. Course will be cart path only, soggy, and greens so shaggy putting will be theoretical at best.
I assume they all overseed?
I’m not aware of any public courses that don’t do at least some form of overseed.
On the private side, Desert Mountain has seven courses and there was a time when they would leave one of them dormant (Outlaw, I think?) but I have no idea if they still do that. Also with seven courses, if you have an in there that’s the best bet to find a club where they have a course that is still pre-overseed.
Desert Forest, the best course I have played in the state (though I certainly haven’t played all the privates), used to not overseed maybe every other season. Not sure if that is still a thing they do or not.
Another option would be looking at one of the mountain courses, like up in Payson (Rim Club is better than Chaparral Pines) or Flagstaff (Forest Highlands, Pine Club) as none of them would overseed and would still be open that time of year. And if you can get out at Forest Highlands lmk.
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I’m in Scottsdale and looking to play early morning on Tuesday and Thurs(playing TPC champions tomorrow). Tee times seem either hard to get or very expensive. I think I may go up to dobson one day. Is it reasonable to try and walk on early at Aguila during the week? Any other suggestions? I don’t mind driving 30 mins of paying a bit but I’d like to avoid paying top dollar for a meh golf course. Also I’m a walker so would like to avoid having to take a cart.