The Rim Golf Club

The Rim Golf Club is located about an hour to the northeast of Scottsdale and is set in an exclusive, private residential estate. The golf course is nestled amongst the vanilla scented stands of Ponderosa Pine and the Rim was fashioned by the team that created Scotland’s famous Loch Lomond Golf Club.

Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish designed The Rim Golf Club, which opened for play in 1998 and Weiskopf reckons this final collaboration with Morrish was also one of their best. The course routing features rocky outcrops and the dramatic mountain backdrop of the Mogollon Rim – an unusual mountain plateau that extends across Arizona for nearly 200 miles from northern Yavapai County to the border with New Mexico – from which the club takes its name.

Five of the par four holes on the scorecard measure more than 450 yards in length from the back tees so, even with the advantage of playing at high altitude, golfers who can hit the ball long and straight will prosper here.

The signature hole on the card is the downhill, 581-yard, par five 13th, named "Spirit Hollow". Only reachable in two by the aforesaid long hitters, the downhill fairway leads to a green framed to the rear by a remarkable outcrop of enormous boulders stacked on top of one another.

In 2014 The Rim was purchased by Phil Mickelson and is now one of five layouts (including Stone Canyon, which was a solo design by the late Jay Morrish) in the Mickelson Private Golf collection.