Arizona Grand Resort

I have played this course before and I really like the layout. I have expressed some concerns about the friendliness of the staff in the past but they has gotten better. Play was slow on this Sunday afternoon, however, with groups jumping ahead.

This is one of the hardest courses I have played. There are many challenges but boy it was fun.
Our only comment was there was no Marshall on a Saturday and we were stacked up. Had groups in front of us sitting on the tee box just talking instead of teeing off!

I have played this course for many years and have always been able to complete a round in 4 to 4.5 hours. On this day we were told there was a tournament and they had just began starting groups on the course about 45 minutes prior to our tee time so it should open up after the first few holes. The pace was good ok up until hole 5 and then seemed to start slowing down. By hole 8 we saw the starter out checking on progress and assumed the pace would get better but it did exactly the opposite and slowed down even more. By the time 4 hours had passed we were just finishing hole 14, and had 4 balls hit into us by the group behind while we were waiting for the group in front to finish on the green or while we were finishing on the green over the previous 5 or 6 holes. At that point it was nearing 7 pm and we decided to call it a day as we were not going to finish anyway. We went past the group in front of us anticipating finding more groups and did not come up on anyone until we got to hole 18 (3 holes out from them) where we waited for a 5 some to finish teeing off prior to heading to the clubhouse for the night. Obviously there was one group which was the problem and they were directly in front of us. AZ Grand is just not living up to their past standards of good pace of play and courteous golfers as we had normally experienced in the past.

Have played this course every year for 30 years and this was the worst experience we have encountered. Took close to 5 hours to complete, not one course marshal on site and EVERY water station was dry on a 95 degree day..Someone needs to get a handle on what they want the public to think of this place.

Been playing here for 30 years but did not have a good experience this time. Pace of play was brutally slow, almost 5 hours. EVERY water station on the course was empty on a 95 degree day. Never saw one course marshal the entire round. Will try the course again but this experience was very disappointing.

I had an amazing experience playing here!! I can’t wait to play again!!

Sinage was terrible finding the place. You have to CARRY your bags to dropoff. I would save play Raven or Legacy.

Absolutely foul that they are charging $100 and more here. Construction on the first couple holes. Completely blind shots and no hole map at any tee box but you have zero idea where to aim if you’ve never played it.
However, none of that makes it what’s bad. What’s bad is the tee boxes were worse than paradise valley GC, which is a 1 star course and I’m dead serious. Tee boxes are terrible and the greens are bad too. Also took about 4 and a half hours to play and it’s 5800 yards. Pathetic. No wonder tee sheet is never full. Seriously should be 20-30 dollars

We enjoyed our round at Arizona Grand very much. The front nine is park style, and the back is desert target golf--I haven't experienced a combo like that, and it was interesting.

The back 9 is a bit more challenging with lots of dogleg decisions to make and bunkers guard several greens pretty well. Personally enjoyed the challenge.

I'd say the greens were a 4/5. Good pace as you expect in the PHX area, but they do have trouble spots where the greens seem to be recovering from being "under the weather" in some way. The interesting layout and challenge do make up for that to a great degree. And for the reasonable price we paid (around $70 per), it's definitely a great value.

The warm up area is a 30 x 15 foot netted area. We can get an idea of how our strikes feel, but not seeing the flight made it difficult to see if I was striking well. I understand they have a lack of space already; however, that could be easily accommodated by having some sort of simulators in a building so that we can have an idea of what our balls look like.