dbg on Course

Painted Mountain Golf Resort in Mesa was designed by Frank Boxberger and opened in 1969. If you’ve never heard of Boxberger, you’re not alone. I had to do a little digging, but apparently he also designed Eaton Country Club in Eaton, Colorado and the nine-hold Sunland Village Golf Course also in Mesa. Painted Mountain touts itself as […]

Seville Golf and Country Club is a Gary Panks-designed course located in Gilbert. It opened in 2001, and it’s part of the ClubCorp network, the largest owner/operator of private golf and country clubs in the United States. Of all the courses we are playing through the Golf Academy this semester, Seville is the one that

Ancala Country Club (pronounced on-CALL-uh) is a private club tucked back into the foothills of the McDowell Mountains in Scottsdale. The course, which opened in 1991, is a Dye Design. Not Pete Dye, but his son Perry, who works with his famous father and is a pretty well-established golf course architect of his own. Unlike a lot

Dell Urich (formerly Randolph South) re-opened in the spring of 1996 following a dramatic makeover by Ken Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh is famous for designing Longbow Golf Club in Mesa and Gold Canyon Golf Resort, but he still had some big shoes to fill – Randolph South was designed in 1961 by William F. Bell, the man who designed

Surprisingly, not much has been written about Quarry Pines Golf Club in Marana. Its history is spotty at best, but we do know that in 2000, after being open for less than two years, The Links at Continental Ranch was closed and renovated in conjunction with the decision to abandon the sand and gravel quarry