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Quintero Golf Club: The Course at the End of the Road
Arizona, United States
Nobody builds a top-100 public course an hour from Scottsdale on federal land with 700 feet of elevation change. Rees Jones did it once. That was enough.
Arizona
12 courses in Arizona, United States
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Troon North Monument: The Desert Course That Thinks It's Scottish
Arizona, United States
Tom Weiskopf built an ode to the British Open in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. The boulders, saguaros, and peak-season prices are not very Scottish.
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Troon North Golf Club (Pinnacle): The Sonoran Desert's Most Beautiful Way to Lose a Dozen Balls
Arizona, United States
Tom Weiskopf draped pristine fairways over house-sized granite boulders and called it target golf. The Sonoran Desert calls it an ambush. Bring extra balls.
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We-Ko-Pa Golf Club (Cholla): No Backyards, No Bailouts
Arizona, United States
Most Arizona courses route through someone's living room. Cholla routes through sovereign desert and dares you to miss.
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We-Ko-Pa Golf Club (Saguaro): The Links Course That Forgot to Pack an Ocean
Arizona, United States
Coore and Crenshaw built a walking-friendly links course in the Sonoran Desert. No ocean, no housing, no carts required. Arizona golf had never seen it.
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Ak-Chin Southern Dunes: The Course That Out-Sanded the Desert
Arizona, United States
129 bunkers. Twelve acres of sand. Zero saguaros. Someone dropped the Melbourne Sandbelt into the Sonoran Desert and nobody stopped them.
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The Boulders (North): Twelve Million Years of Geology, Zero Interest in Your Handicap
Arizona, United States
Jay Morrish built a desert Pine Valley around twelve-million-year-old granite spheres in Carefree, Arizona. The boulders were here first. They aren't moving.
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The Boulders (South): The Rocks Were Here First
Arizona, United States
Jay Morrish threaded 18 holes through 12-million-year-old granite and invented desert target golf. The rocks were there first. They remain unimpressed.
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Grayhawk Golf Club (Raptor): The Desert's Wolf in Parkland Clothing
Arizona, United States
Tom Fazio built wide fairways in the Sonoran Desert and hid the teeth in the green complexes. Three years of NCAA champions confirm: the wolf still bites.
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Grayhawk Golf Club (Talon): Where the Back Nine Drops into a Canyon and Takes Your Ball With It
Arizona, United States
Scottsdale's box-canyon thriller hosted a million-dollar purse in 1995. The desert has been collecting golf balls (and green fees) ever since.
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TPC Scottsdale Stadium: Golf's Coliseum (Some Assembly Required)
Arizona, United States
The PGA Tour's loudest venue is a daily-fee course on a flood plain. 20,000 screaming fans one week. The other 51? Just desert and concrete footings.
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Wickenburg Ranch: Seven Years of Beauty Sleep
Arizona, United States
Built in 2008. Opened in 2015. Two amateur architects and a seven-year economic coma produced Arizona's most improbable championship course.