Wickenburg Ranch (Big Wick)

Featuring bentgrass greens, the Big Wick course at Wickenburg Ranch Golf & Social Club is a Bill Brownlee and Wendell Pickett design with the somewhat unusual configuration of six par threes, five par fives and seven par fours.

Complemented by the floodlit Li’l Wick 9-hole par three course, Big Wick opened for public play in 2015, with fairways routed across a rolling landscape of canyons and arroyos close to Vulture Peak and Prescott National Forest.

Holes with water hazards don’t feature too often here but when they do they’re pretty spectacular – at the par three 13th (“Big Water”) for instance, where a large lake hugs the right side of the green, and the par five 14th (“Yikes”), with ponds on either side of the fairway.