dbg on Course

Of Tucson’s five municipal golf courses, Randolph North is the longest and the best. It opened in 1925 with sand fairways and cottonseed greens at Randolph Park, an oasis left to the city by American railroad tycoon Epes Randolph in the early 1900s on land he stipulated must be used for parks and recreation. The greens were sprayed with oil […]

Set deep in the narrow canyons of the Tortolita Mountains in north Marana is The Gallery Golf Club, a 36-hole desert golf paradise. The North Course was designed by Tom Lehman and John Fought and opened in 1998. The more famous South Course was also designed by Fought but opened four years later. It’s more famous because it hosted the

In 1913, Dr. A.J. Chandler opened the San Marcos Hotel, the first building with electricity in the city that would eventually bear his name, and the nine-hole San Marcos Golf Course on 100 acres of land on the east side of Arizona Avenue straddling what is now Chandler Boulevard. A year later, nine more holes were added, and

The second of Arizona Biltmore Golf Club’s two courses is the Links Course, designed by Bill Johnson. It opened in 1979, and while the Adobe Course is more of a parkland-style course, the Links Course is exactly what it says – a true links-style course in the heart of Phoenix. And it’s right in the middle

What a treat! For our final tournament of the summer semester at the Golf Academy, we got to play Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale. These are Phil Mickelson’s stomping grounds, and the club’s relationship with the Arizona State University Alum and World Golf Hall of Famer dates back well before the opening of the Talon Course