Golf Courses

Kierland Golf Club

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Another of Scottsdale's fine courses open to the public. Designed by Scott Miller and managed by Troon Golf, this facility boasts three distinctive nine hole golf courses, named after the dominant vegetation on each, Mesquite, Ironwood and Acacia. A bit different from any other desert golf experience you will find in Scottsdale as it is [...]

Legend Trail Golf Club

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Legend Trail GC is a stunning golf oasis in the middle of the high Sonoran desert that features great conditioning, wide fairways, perfectly level, island tee boxes, bent grass greens, strategically placed bunkers and crushed granite cart paths. Small wonder it has been chosen as one of Golf Magazine’s Top 100 courses. Also rated by [...]

Troon North Golf Club

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Troon North Golf Club always was and still is my favorite daily-fee golf facility in Scottsdale. With apologies to all the other great courses in Scottsdale, one has to have a favorite, don't they? North Scottsdale’s crown jewel features the Monument and Pinnacle courses that dramatically wind through and around the northern slopes of North [...]

TPC Scottsdale

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

As an avid golfer I could feel the buzz almost from the moment I moved to Scottsdale in 1986 about the Phoenix Open's move to the new Tournament Players Club of Scottsdale from Phoenix Country Club. It seemed like everyone was talking about it, golfer and non-golfer alike. The first "Open" to be played at [...]

Grayhawk Golf Club

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Since opening in 1994, Grayhawk Golf Club has become one of Arizona’s most popular daily-fee golf clubs, one reason is that there are two really superb 18-hole courses there – Talon and Raptor – winding through some really spectacular Sonoran Desert terrain. As you can see by the photo, great to look at pictures of [...]