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Ocotillo Golf Resort in Chandler is unlike any course I’ve ever played. I don’t know to what I would compare it. When I asked Director of Golf Mark Bateman to describe it, he was very candid in saying, “Instead of desert, there’s water.” Ocotillo Golf Resort is a Troon Golf (Scottsdale) property. All of the Troon […]

Located just on the outskirts of Phoenix proper is the Arizona Biltmore Golf Club. The address may say Phoenix, but this part of town feels a lot like Scottsdale. When you see the mansions surrounding the golf courses, you’ll see what I mean. Every U.S. President in recent years beginning with Dwight D. Eisenhower, with the

I stumbled upon the Bear Creek Golf Complex in Chandler shortly after I moved back to the Phoenix area in the fall of 2011. What I liked about it right away was the practice range and learning center. This is the best place south of the Red Mountain Freeway, and perhaps all of Southern Arizona,

Starr Pass Golf Club has been on my short list of courses to play in Tucson for several years now. If you’re ever sitting in a window seat when you’re flying in, you can briefly spot the course tucked into the hills of the Tucson Mountains before the plane banks toward its final destination. The club derives its

The best public course on Tucson’s east side, hands down, is Arizona National Golf Club (the best private facility is Tucson Country Club). Robert Trent Jones Jr. designed the course, and when it was built shortly thereafter by Larry Lippon, an archaeologist-horticulturist was on-hand to help the bulldozers navigate through the Hohokam Indian ruins in