Southern Dunes Golf Club
More like Scotland than the desert, it’s hard to find a cactus here. Southern Dunes Golf Club spans 320 acres with not a single home on the course.
January 2018
Destinations Golf Visits
Travel reports from the world of golf.
The Boulders Golf Club – South Course
Stunning scenery with rock formations, cacti, elevation changes and water are features of the more challenging South Course.
December 2017
The Boulders Golf Club – North Course
Green-side bunkers are extensive yet the North Course is less difficult than the South Course. Both courses are peppered with native saguaro cacti and rock formations.
December 2017
Donald Ross
Troon North Golf Club – Pinnacle Course
The top-ranked course in all of Arizona. Natural desert foliage and cactus enclose a beautifully conditioned golf course. A must play when you visit the desert.
November 2017
Troon North Golf Club – Monument Course
Classic desert golf and more forgiving than its sister course, The Pinnacle, fairways are generous on this playable course. It’s a magnificently enjoyable experience for all abilities and the scenery is spectacular.
November 2017
Tom Fazio
Rams Hill
Emerged from a troubled past, this remote oasis is a reborn jewel tucked away in the Anza Borrego State Park with perfect greens and amazing vistas.
October 2017
Arnold Palmer
The Classic Club
A PGA Tour quality course, the Classic Club is unusual for a desert course as it includes an abundance of pine trees and pine straw. It’s also very well conditioned.
October 2017
Greg Norman
Ritz Carlton Golf Club at Grande Lakes
A Greg Norman layout in Orlando integral within the luxurious Grande Lakes hotel complex with Marriott and Ritz Carlton. Wide fairways, limited rough and large greens are superbly manicured.
October 2017
Arnold Palmer
SilverRock Resort
A quintessential Coachella Valley desert course with impeccable conditioning, close mountain views and reasonable prices. And it’s a PGA Tour quality course.
September 2017
Robert Trent Jones, Sr
Spyglass Hill Golf Course – Pebble Beach
Ranked as one of the greatest 100 golf courses in history by Golf Digest. One of the most revered courses in the nation and one of the best examples of Robert Trent Jones work.
August 2017
Coyote Moon Golf Course
One of the finest mountain courses you’ll every play. Conditioning is superb. No homes on the course will spoil the drammatic scenery.
July 2017
Grizzly Ranch Golf Course
This semi-private course features an abundance of picturesque holes meandering through dense forest bringing that wonderful pastoral feeling of mountain courses.
July 2017
The Quarry Giants Ridge
Carved from a rock and sand quarry, the Quarry has a well-regarded collection of three beautiful and challenging Par 5 Holes. The landscape is used masterfully to create shots that require careful thinking.
September 2016
The Legend Giants Ridge
A magnificent yet great value high-end public course. If you only have time to play one of the two courses, we give the Quarry course a slight nod over the Legend course.
September 2016
