dbg on Course

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 […]

Superstition Springs Golf Club was designed by Greg Nash and opened for business off Baseline Road in Mesa, the heart of the East Valley, in 1986. The mounding, the grass and sand bunkering, and the railroad ties running along the water features remind me of a Pete Dye design, but while it’s not a Dye, it might as well be.

The ASU Karsten Golf Course holds a special place in my heart. When I was in my sophomore year at Arizona State University, I really fell in love with the game. I played most, if not all of my rounds at one of two courses: Rolling Hills or Karsten. Rolling Hills is a little Par

The 2nd of the two Gary Panks-designed golf courses out at Whirlwind Golf Club in Chandler is the Cattail Course. Whirlwind is affiliated with the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort and managed by Troon Golf. The Cattail Course opened in 2000 and hosted the Nationwide Tour’s Gila River Golf Classic from its opening through 2005. The facility

Raven Golf Club – Phoenix (formerly the Raven at South Mountain) is one of the most unique golf courses you’ll ever play in the desert because it’s not a desert course at all. It’s fertile farmland. When it was constructed in 1995, some 6,000 Georgia pine trees were brought in and over 700,000 cubic feet of soil was moved to