Vegan702
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I just got back from a golf trip to Phoenix over the weekend and played 3 courses and 90 holes of golf in 3 days. We arrived Friday and played Lookout Mountain at Tapatio Cliffs Phoenix Golf Courses | Lookout Mountain | Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, Phoenix, Arizona
This course was in beautiful shape and offers some great views. Hole #10 has a drop of over 10 stories I believe it is and makes for some great excitement for your tee shot, hang time is unbelievable. Overall the course is pretty good, not a difficult course, but a fun round of golf. Staff was great and the facilities were good.
On Saturday we played at a course called Dove Valley Ranch Dove Valley Ranch Golf Club - Course Tour
This course was also in great shape and made for some interesting golf. The front nine is fairly tame with a couple risk/reward holes, however, the back nine really tests your golf game. Hole #14 is a drivable green if you are courageous enough to risk losing the ball in the desert you have to cross to get there as nothing good will come from being short and left. I actually had a ton of luck on this hole as I was laying up with my 3w to the right at the front edge of the desert wash. Well I pulled the shot left over the desert and I must have gotten a gratuitous bounce as it rolled up onto the front edge of the green. Staff again was great and the facilities were OK. There was a frost delay of about 90 minutes, so we killed some time and went and ate breakfast at a local hole in the wall place called the Wagon Wheel. The food selection at the course is very limited.
On Sunday we played at Golf Club at Estrella http://www.estrellagolf.com/index.php
This was a fantastic course. Great shape, the staff was extremely friendly and knowledgeable. Out of the 3 courses we played we enjoyed this one the most. Course layout is good with a lot of different options off the tees. We played the next to last tees the first round and then played what they call a mixed tee the 2nd round to get a different feel for the course which is a combination of the first 2 tees. The mixed tee play made for an exciting round of golf as it brought a lot of the par 4s into driving range with a good tee shot. As with most desert courses, a premium is placed on staying on the grass as most anything in the desert will result in you just picking up.
We booked our trip though Meridian Condo Resorts, http://www.condoresorts.com and overall it was a great trip. They handled all the tee reservations, the condo was decent and the location of the condo is great as it is right down the street from Keirland Commons in Scottsdale which offered a lot of dining options, entertainment, etc. We are going to start going there every year around this time for a golf trip, however, we may go about 2-3 weeks earlier to avoid the frost delays we had both days.
This course was in beautiful shape and offers some great views. Hole #10 has a drop of over 10 stories I believe it is and makes for some great excitement for your tee shot, hang time is unbelievable. Overall the course is pretty good, not a difficult course, but a fun round of golf. Staff was great and the facilities were good.
On Saturday we played at a course called Dove Valley Ranch Dove Valley Ranch Golf Club - Course Tour
This course was also in great shape and made for some interesting golf. The front nine is fairly tame with a couple risk/reward holes, however, the back nine really tests your golf game. Hole #14 is a drivable green if you are courageous enough to risk losing the ball in the desert you have to cross to get there as nothing good will come from being short and left. I actually had a ton of luck on this hole as I was laying up with my 3w to the right at the front edge of the desert wash. Well I pulled the shot left over the desert and I must have gotten a gratuitous bounce as it rolled up onto the front edge of the green. Staff again was great and the facilities were OK. There was a frost delay of about 90 minutes, so we killed some time and went and ate breakfast at a local hole in the wall place called the Wagon Wheel. The food selection at the course is very limited.
On Sunday we played at Golf Club at Estrella http://www.estrellagolf.com/index.php
This was a fantastic course. Great shape, the staff was extremely friendly and knowledgeable. Out of the 3 courses we played we enjoyed this one the most. Course layout is good with a lot of different options off the tees. We played the next to last tees the first round and then played what they call a mixed tee the 2nd round to get a different feel for the course which is a combination of the first 2 tees. The mixed tee play made for an exciting round of golf as it brought a lot of the par 4s into driving range with a good tee shot. As with most desert courses, a premium is placed on staying on the grass as most anything in the desert will result in you just picking up.
We booked our trip though Meridian Condo Resorts, http://www.condoresorts.com and overall it was a great trip. They handled all the tee reservations, the condo was decent and the location of the condo is great as it is right down the street from Keirland Commons in Scottsdale which offered a lot of dining options, entertainment, etc. We are going to start going there every year around this time for a golf trip, however, we may go about 2-3 weeks earlier to avoid the frost delays we had both days.