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Arizona

Arizona, the Grand Canyon or Copper State, is synonymous with desert landscapes and its mild winter climate is golfing heaven. There are few Golden Age designs here in Arizona, largely due to the fact that tough hybrid grasses had not yet appeared on the scene. However, some courses did appear in the early part of the 20th century and the oldest course in the southwest (1919) is still in play at the Phoenix Country Club.

  1. The Jackson Khan design team spent at least six days a week on site during the 15-month construction, with The Other Course at Scottsdale National Golf Club opening on 29th October 2016.

  2. The Estancia Club

    Arizona, United States

    The Estancia Club is set on a high desert plateau, underneath the northern slope of Pinnacle Peak – Scottsdale’s most famous landmark – where spectacular city views to the south and west are on offer. Tom Fazio designed this desert course among the huge boulder outcrops and the saguaro cacti.

  3. Opened in 1988, the Canyon course at Forest Highlands Golf Club was created by the design duo of Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish. It is currently the premier golf course in the State of Arizona, set amongst Ponderosa Pine, Oak and Aspen trees at 7,000 feet above sea level.

  4. Whisper Rock Golf Club (Upper)

    Arizona, United States

    Whisper Rock Golf Club is tucked away in the north Scottsdale desert. This private members facility is accessed via the guard-gated entrance to a residential community which just so happens to have two fine golf courses in their collection.

  5. Desert Highlands

    Arizona, United States

    Lyle Anderson contracted Jack Nicklaus to build a course around a sizeable Scottsdale residential development in the early 1980s and the Golden Bear with his senior designer Bob Cupp duly obliged...

  6. Whisper Rock Golf Club (Lower)

    Arizona, United States

    Whisper Rock's Lower course opened in 2001 and it was the first foray into golf course design for Phil Mickelson. Owner Gregg Tryhus teamed Lefty up with Dallas-based architect Gary Stephenson to turn a boulder-strewn area in the Sonoran Desert into a very special golf venue.

  7. Desert Forest Golf Club

    Arizona, United States

    Desert Forest Golf Club is located at altitude in Carefree, Arizona, to the north of Phoenix and it was one of the earliest desert-style courses ever built, fashioned in 1962 by Robert "Red" Lawrence who went on to shape numerous other courses in the American Southwest...

  8. We-Ko-Pa Golf Club (Saguaro)

    Arizona, United States

    The Saguaro course at We-Ko-Pa Golf Club opened in December 2006 and it was the second course built at this stunning facility. Located to the north east of Scottsdale, on a site developed by the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, it offers daily fee golfers the use of two spectacular layouts...

  9. Stone Canyon

    Arizona, United States

    Stone Canyon Club is a spectacular desert course set between Catalina State Park and Tortolita Mountain Park to the north of Tucson. Its elevated tees, lush fairways and testing greens extend to a tight 70 acres, routed around stone outcrops and canyons flanked by towering saguaro cacti.

  10. Silverleaf Club

    Arizona, United States

    Located less than a 30-minute drive north of downtown Scottsdale, the Tom Weiskopf-designed course at the Silverleaf Club – named after an historic mining claim filed on the property in the late 19th century – is the centrepiece of an upmarket residential development...

  11. Desert Mountain (Chiricahua)

    Arizona, United States

    One of six Jack Nicklaus-designed courses at Desert Mountain, the Chiricahua is routed over the hillier sections of the property, allowing the Golden Bear to incorporate some dramatic elevation changes into the design.

  12. The Rim Golf Club

    Arizona, United States

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

  13. The Mineshaft course at Scottsdale National Golf Club (formerly The Golf Club Scottsdale) is a 2003 Dick Bailey/Jay Morrish co-design. Measuring over 7,500 yards from the tips, the course builds to a crescendo over the final four holes, known as “Gambler’s Bluff”.

  14. Desert Mountain (Geronimo)

    Arizona, United States

    Second only in terms of difficulty to the top-ranked Chiricahua at the Desert Mountain Club, the Geronimo course debuted at the 108-hole Desert Mountain Club facility in 1989.

  15. Desert Mountain (Renegade)

    Arizona, United States

    The Renegade was the first Jack Nicklaus layout to open at Desert Mountain in 1987. Since then, the Golden Bear has added five more courses here, but the Renegade at 7,443 yards remains the longest.

  16. Pine Canyon

    Arizona, United States

    A Jay Morrish design from 2004, the course at Pine Canyon Club is routed around numerous ponds and lakes on a rolling landscape to the south of Flagstaff.

  17. Quintero Golf & Country Club

    Arizona, United States

    The course at Quintero Golf & Country Club is routed through valleys in the foothills of the central Arizonan Hieroglyphic Mountains.

  18. Forest Highlands (Meadow)

    Arizona, United States

    Set to the north of its older sibling, the longer of the two 18-hole layouts at Forest Highlands Golf Club, Tom Weiskopf’s Meadow course debuted in 1999, twelve years after the unveiling of his Canyon course co-design with Jay Morrish.

  19. Desert Mountain (Outlaw)

    Arizona, United States

    The Outlaw was the sixth and final course to open at Desert Mountain in 2003 and it’s a links-like layout from the burgeoning drawing board of Jack Nicklaus.

  20. Chaparral Pines

    Arizona, United States

    David Graham collaborated with Scottsdale-based architect Gary Panks to lay out the tree-lined fairways of The Golf Club at Chaparral Pines in 1997.

  21. Troon Country Club

    Arizona, United States

    Troon Country Club is perched at altitude in the striking Sonoran Desert. Designed by Jay Morrish and Tom Weiskopf and named after its famous Scottish alma mater, Royal Troon...

  22. Mirabel

    Arizona, United States

    The $15m Greg Norman-designed course at what was then called Stonehaven never saw the light of day. The new owner renamed the property Mirabel Golf Club and instructed Tom Fazio to replace the Shark's layout.

  23. The Saguaro and Tortolita nines are used when the WGC Match Play Championship comes to town early in the professional season – the event has been held at Dove Mountain since 2009...

  24. Troon North Golf Club (Monument)

    Arizona, United States

    The Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish-designed Monument course was the first of two 18-hole layouts to be unveiled at Troon North Golf Club in 1990.

  25. Owned and operated by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the 36-hole golf complex at Talking Stick Golf Club was unveiled in 1997, sporting two Coore & Crenshaw-designed courses.

  26. Troon North Golf Club (Pinnacle)

    Arizona, United States

    Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish designed the Pinnacle course at Troon North Golf Club and it debuted in 1995, five years after its 18-hole sibling, the Monument, first opened for play.

  27. Verrado (Founder's)

    Arizona, United States

    The Founder's course at Verrado Golf Club is set in the foothills of the White Tank Mountains and it's a John Fought and Tom Lehman co-design from 2004. It's routed around rocky outcrops, desert washes and native vegetation with a number of exciting elevation changes.

  28. Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club

    Arizona, United States

    Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club occupies 320 acres of the Ak-Chin Indian Community’s property in Maricopa. Designed by Fred Couples and the Schmidt-Curley partnership, the layout has hosted Arizona State Amateur Championships and is a US Open qualifying venue.

  29. SunRidge Canyon

    Arizona, United States

    The 6,823-yard course at SunRidge Canyon Golf Club is a Keith Foster design that’s laid out across a dramatic desert landscape of ridges and canyons, where subtle elevation changes enhance a thrilling golf experience.

  30. Wickenburg Ranch (Big Wick)

    Arizona, United States

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