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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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”.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We-Ko-Pa is all about the golfing experience and some of the views from the elevated tees of the Cholla course are jaw dropping.

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Wigwam's Gold course, nicknamed “Arizona’s Monster,” has hosted many tournaments over the years, including US Open and US Amateur qualifiers. It’s also home to the the Patriot All-America Invitational, featuring top collegiate golfers...

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The heroic par three 3rd hole on the Mountain course at Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club is one of the most photogenic holes to be found on any Tom Fazio course.

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Seven Canyons lies in a stunning setting on the central Arizona plateau in the middle of Sedona's red rock landscape where its location has been described as “like playing classic golf in the basin of the Grand Canyon.”

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In 1998, the North course was the first of two 18-hole layouts to appear at The Gallery Golf Club. Designed by Tom Lehman in conjunction with architect John Fought, the front nine play through Ruelas Canyon with the back nine routed along a mountain ridge.

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Designed by John Fought, the South course at The Gallery Golf Club hosted the 2007 and 2008 World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship which Henrik Stenson and Tiger Woods won respectively.

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The Stadium course at TPC Scottsdale was fashioned by Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish. They were commissioned by the City of Scottsdale to design a municipal golf course that would test the world’s best players.

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Jack Nicklaus laid out the three nines – Ridge, Canyon and Hill – at La Paloma Country Club in the mid-1980s. Nestled in the foothills of the Catalina Mountains, all 27 holes of this impressive layout were renovated in 2013 when the course underwent an extensive makeover.

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The Cochise at Desert Mountain Club is the shortest of six courses that Jack Nicklaus designed at this massive golf facility. Debuting in 1987, the Cochise hosted the first Champions Tour Tradition tournament the following year and the event remained here until moving in 2002.

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Situated adjacent to Black Mountain Summit Park, the North course at The Boulders Club is the older of the two Jay Morrish courses in play at a 36-hole golf complex that sits within a residential development.

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Laid out in a setting described by architect Jerry Pate as “truly the land that the game of golf has been looking for,” the course at Flagstaff Ranch Golf Club has been hewn from a dense forest of Ponderosa pine trees.

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The Tom Fazio designed Raptor course is one of the most beautiful courses in the region with spectacular panoramic views of the McDowell Mountains and the surrounding desert dotted with large saguaro cactus.

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Situated in the hills that stretch out across the Colorado River from Laughlin in Nevada, the course at Laughlin Ranch Golf Club is characterized by wide, accommodating fairways and generously proportioned greens, with sensational views of the surrounding desert landscape.

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As one rounds the corner at Blackstone Country Club, they may be reminded of numerous bold golf holes from around the world...but what else would one expect of a Jim Engh design in the Arizona desert, aside from boldness?

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Situated 25 miles north of Prescott, Talking Rock has a Jay Morrish-designed 18-hole golf course at the heart of its residential development. Generously wide fairways and clearly visible hazards make this a fair test for golfers.

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The Canyon course at the 36-hole Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club forms half the golfing element within a 600-acre property belonging to The Lodge at Ventana Canyon. Short par fours at the 4th and 14th holes are particularly attractive on this layout.

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The South course is the newer of the two Jay Morrish-designed layouts at The Boulders Club and its scenic routing brings into sharp focus two of the golf resort’s most famous rock formations, “Boulder Pile” and “Rosie’s Rock”.

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The Talon course at Grayhawk Golf Club is a Gary Panks and David Graham co-design that opened in 1994, a year before Tom Fazio’s Raptor course debuted here. The Talon layout comes into its own on the back nine, with fairways set out around a number of deep box canyons.

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The 27-hole layout at Starr Pass Golf Club began in the mid-1980s as a Bob Cupp-designed 18-hole course but Arnold Palmer added another nine during a restoration in 2003. The club hosted or co-hosted the former Tucson Open on the PGA Tour between 1987 and 1996.

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Talking Stick Golf Club boasts two Coore & Crenshaw-designed courses open to the public. Fairways on the shorter Piipaash, formerly known as the South layout, are routed around a number of man-made water hazards which come into play on five holes.

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Co-designed by Billy Casper and Greg Nash, the Sonoran Desert course at Terravita Golf & Country Club was one of the regional qualifying venues for the 2012 U.S. Women’s Open.

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Originally opened in 1961 then redesigned twenty-two years later by Robert von Hagge with Bruce Devlin, the Catalina course at the 36-hole Omni Tucson National Resort has hosted the Cologuard Classic event on the PGA Tour Champions circuit since 2015.

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Opened for play in 1998, the Prospector course at the 36-hole Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club is the course that Jack and Gary Nicklaus built (with associate Phil Smith) that hosted five editions of the Phoenix LPGA International tournament between 2004 and 2008.

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Opened in the late 1990s, the 18-hole layout at the Country Club at DC Ranch is a wonderful Tom Lehman and John Fought co-production which nestles at the base of the mesmerizing McDowell Mountains.

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The Pascua Yaqui Tribe engaged fellow Native American, Notah Begay III, and Ty Butler, a former senior project designer with Robert Trent Jones Jnr, to set out the Sewailo Golf Club course across a spectacular Sonoran Desert landscape.

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The Lost Gold course at the 36-hole Superstition Mountain Golf & Country Club famously hosted the 2002 Senior Slam, with Fuzzy Zoeller winning the 2-day tournament and the $300,000 top prize...

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Featuring dramatic elevation changes and rolling fairways, the Ambiente course at the Camelback Inn Resort & Spa supercedes the original Indian Bend course which Arthur Jack Snyder added to the resort in the late 1970s.

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The Champions course at TPC Scottsdale opened around the same time as the Stadium course in the mid-1980s. Following a multi-million dollar renovation from Randy Heckenkemper in 2007, this layout is now every bit as challenging as its famous stablemate.

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A strategic design which brings several lakes into play, the Padre course at the 36-hole Camelback Inn Resort & Spa is a Red Lawrence layout from 1970 that was substantially renovated by Arthur Hills in the late 1990s.