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Arizona Golf Resort is located in Mesa, right across Power Road from Leisure World. It was designed by Arthur Jack Snyder and opened in 1960. Snyder is credited by the American Society of Golf Course Architects with 47 original designs including Ken McDonald in Tempe and Legend Trail in Scottsdale. This is a resort golf course. There […]

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