Every golf course in Scottsdale, and how to get on it
Scottsdale invented desert golf: fairways laid over the Sonoran Desert like islands, with nothing but rock and cholla between the tee and the short grass. Below are 36 courses and clubs (966 holes), from the Stadium Course at TPC to the guarded clubs at the top of the city, each with what it costs, when it closes for overseeding, who designed it and the honest answer to whether you can play it. 22 of them take public tee times. Start with golf without a membership if you are visiting.
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36 of 36 courses and clubs shown · 58 courses in all
17 courses and clubs
Daily-fee courses: book a tee time and play
The desert courses anyone can book, from the TPC Stadium Course to Troon North. Peak-season rates run January to April; the same tee time costs a third as much in July, at 6 a.m.
Greg Nash and Jeff Hardin
Continental Golf Club
Continental is the executive course a mile east of Old Town at Hayden and Osborn: 18 holes, par 60, designed by Greg Nash and Jeff Hardin, tree-lined and watery and short enough to play before lunch. It is run by Arcis Golf, has one of the better practice ranges in south Scottsdale, a breakfast-and-lunch café with a full bar, and Glow Golf nights when the course is played in the dark with lit balls.
Not published; public tee times are priced in Arcis Golf's online booking, with lower rates for Arcis Players' Card and Players' Club members
Milton Coggins, Greg H. Nash and Jeff D. Hardin
Coronado Golf Course
Coronado is Scottsdale's old-school neighborhood nine: opened November 1, 1965, on Miller Road in south Scottsdale, a 1,850-yard par 31 that costs $24 to walk, takes no tee times and takes no cards. Its lighted driving range, open until 9 p.m. with a nightly happy hour on balls and beer, has won the Phoenix New Times' best driving range award four times. Bring cash; there is no ATM.
2026: $24 to walk nine, $14 for a replay, $34 with a cart, $12 for juniors; cash only
Robert Trent Jones Jr.
Dove Valley Ranch Golf Club
Dove Valley Ranch is the Robert Trent Jones Jr. course that opened in 1998 as the centerpiece of the 850-acre Dove Valley Ranch community, with a Cave Creek address below Black Mountain: a 7,095-yard par 72 that looks like target golf but is built to forgive, with mown recovery areas instead of cactus at the edges. It is public and part of the Thompson Golf Group's loyalty program; the fall 2026 public rate was $145 to $175 with cart.
Public online rate, cart included, checked October 2026: $145 for late October and $175 for mid-November and mid-December
Scott Miller
Eagle Mountain Golf Club
Eagle Mountain Golf Club is a public Scott Miller course from 1996 on the Fountain Hills side of the McDowells, par 71 and about 6,800 yards, routed through box canyons and valleys with views across the Valley to Camelback and Red Mountain. Troon Golf owns and runs it; tee times open 90 days out with a best-rate guarantee, and the 37-suite Inn at Eagle Mountain sits on the 18th fairway.
Not published; rates show in Troon's online booking, plus tax and a water resource fee, with a best-rate guarantee
Tom Fazio (Raptor); Gary Panks and David Graham (Talon)
Grayhawk Golf Club
Grayhawk Golf Club is 36 holes of public golf in north Scottsdale that look private and are not: Tom Fazio's Raptor, where the PGA Tour and the NCAA championships played, and Talon, a canyon course by Gary Panks and David Graham. Book online, expect about $325 to $400 a morning in season and about $250 after 2 p.m., and save the evening for Isabella's Kitchen or the Quill Creek patio.
About $325 to $400 on fall and winter mornings and about $230 to $265 after 2 p.m. on the club's own booking page in October 2026, plus a 5% water fee
Rees Jones
Legend Trail Golf Club
Legend Trail Golf Club is an 18-hole public desert course by Rees Jones in the far north of Scottsdale, near Carefree, and the fairly priced alternative to its famous neighbors: about $160 to $230 on fall and winter mornings and $110 to $145 from about 1:30 p.m. on its booking page in October 2026. Book up to 60 days out, play the back-to-back par 5s at 16 and 17, and eat at the Cantina.
About $160 to $230 on fall and winter mornings and $110 to $145 from about 1:30 p.m. on the club's booking page in October 2026, plus a $5 water surcharge
Desmond Muirhead
McCormick Ranch Golf Club
McCormick Ranch Golf Club is the family-owned 36 at the heart of McCormick Ranch, Desmond Muirhead's 1972 Palm and Pine courses, all lakes and Camelback views ten minutes from Old Town. It is public every day of the year and about half the price of the north Scottsdale names: about $129 to $159 on a winter morning and $59 to $99 at twilight on the club's booking engine in October 2026. Breakfast on the patio is half the reason to go.
About $129 to $159 on fall and winter mornings and $59 to $99 at twilight on the club's booking engine in October 2026
Randy Heckenkemper
McDowell Mountain Golf Club (formerly Sanctuary Golf Course)
If you are looking for Sanctuary Golf Course in Scottsdale, it is still there under another name: McDowell Mountain Golf Club, at 10690 E Sheena Dr below the McDowell Mountains. It is a public, 7,118-yard par 72 designed by Randy Heckenkemper, who returned for a 2011 renovation that widened the corridors and added waste bunkers and tees. Arcis Golf runs it, with a 20-station grass range and Rossa Kitchen and Patio for wood-fired pizza after.
Not published; public tee times are priced in Arcis Golf's online booking, with lower rates for Arcis Players' Card and Prime members
Not credited on the course's site
Orange Tree Golf Course
Orange Tree is one of the Valley's older courses, begun in the late 1950s on an old orange grove at 56th Street and Shea, on the Phoenix side of the Scottsdale line. It is flat, shaded by very tall trees, with water on six holes and Camelback in view, a remodeled range and a bar and patio. It is public: mid-November 2026 rates ran about $121 to $144 in the morning and $35 to $60 late in the day, less with the course's loyalty cards.
Public online rates for mid-November 2026 ran about $121 on a weekday morning and $144 on a Saturday morning, down to $35 to $60 late in the day; loyalty and Citrus card rates are lower
Not credited by the club
Rancho Mañana Golf Club
Rancho Mañana is the golf course on the old Rancho Mañana dude ranch at the quiet end of Cave Creek: a public, par-70 course built in the 1980s that is short on the card and long on trouble, with big elevation changes, narrow fairways and views down the Valley to Camelback. The Allred family's Arizona Hideaway Collection, which owns the Hermosa Inn, runs it, along with Tonto Bar & Grill in the old ranch buildings. Fall 2026 online rates ran about $55 to $144 with cart.
Online rates with cart, checked October 2026: about $55 to $127 on a mid-November weekday and up to $144 on a Saturday morning
Lawrence Hughes; Arnold Palmer (1990s); Forrest Richardson (The Snake)
Scottsdale Country Club (formerly Starfire Golf Club)
Scottsdale Country Club is the city's oldest golf course, opened in December 1953 as Sundown Ranch at Hayden Road north of Shea, renamed Scottsdale Country Club in 1959, run as the public Starfire Golf Club after 1999, and given its old name back in 2026 by Swing First Golf, which bought it in 2024. It is public: an 18-hole par-70 parkland course, the Roadrunner, a 12-hole short course called the Snake, a free putting course and a covered TrackMan range.
Roadrunner online rates for mid-November 2026 ran about $90 to $108 on a weekday morning and $132 to $144 on a Saturday morning, down to $45 to $54 late in the day
Not credited by the club
Scottsdale Silverado Golf Club
Silverado is the friendly, affordable par 70 in the middle of Scottsdale on Indian Bend Road: flat, generous fairways, elevated tees with views of Camelback and Mummy Mountain, a finishing par 3 over water, and a Grille that locals use as a breakfast and happy-hour spot whether or not they play. Online rates with cart ran about $55 to $139 for weekdays this fall and winter, and the course is short enough to play in a morning.
Online rates with cart, checked October 2026: about $55 to $129 on a mid-November weekday, up to $179 on an October Saturday morning, $59 to $139 in January
Keith Foster
SunRidge Canyon Golf Club
SunRidge Canyon Golf Club is a public Keith Foster course in a canyon of the McDowell Mountains on the Fountain Hills side, par 71 and 7,002 yards, famous for the Wicked 6, an uphill closing stretch of two par 5s, two par 4s and two par 3s. Tee times book up to a year ahead and ran about $165 to $215 on the club's page in October 2026; the Wicked 6 Bar & Grill is the 19th hole, with live music on the patio.
About $165 to $215 for fall, winter and spring tee times on the club's booking page in October 2026
Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw
Talking Stick Golf Club
Talking Stick Golf Club is the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community's 36 holes on the flat land east of the Loop 101, both by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw: O'odham, a wide, links-style desert course, and Piipaash, a tree-lined parkland one. It is public, walkable and ten minutes from Old Town, with the biggest public range in the Valley; book online and check the fall overseed dates first.
Dynamically priced by date, demand and booking history; the club posts no public rate card. Range balls are included
Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish; Randy Heckenkemper (Champions)
TPC Scottsdale
TPC Scottsdale is the rare tour venue anyone can book: the Stadium Course, built in 1986 for the Phoenix Open, with the par-3 16th that becomes a 20,000-seat coliseum every February, and the Champions Course next door, a 2007 Randy Heckenkemper layout that costs a fraction as much. Book the Stadium once for the story and the Champions for the golf.
Stadium about $300 in summer to $550 at peak; Champions far less
Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish; redesigned by Weiskopf
Troon North Golf Club
Troon North Golf Club is the public 36 below Pinnacle Peak that taught the rest of the country what Scottsdale desert golf looks like: Monument (1990) and Pinnacle (mid-1990s), both Tom Weiskopf designs, booked online up to 60 days ahead and priced by demand. Play Monument once for the boulder in the third fairway, eat on the Dynamite Grille patio after, and check the October overseeding calendar before you fly.
Dynamically priced by day and hour, with no published rate card; a 5% water surcharge is added at check-in
Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw (Saguaro); Scott Miller (Cholla)
We-Ko-Pa Golf Club
We-Ko-Pa Golf Club is the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation's 36 public holes past Fountain Hills, with no houses on either course: Coore and Crenshaw's walkable Saguaro and Scott Miller's dramatic Cholla. It publishes real prices instead of dynamic ones, $329 at the 2027 peak and $159 to $169 at the edges of summer, books 90 days out, and sells stay-and-play with the casino resort across the road.
Fixed seasonal rates, no dynamic pricing: $159 in early fall 2026, $239 late October to early January, $329 from January 8 to April 25, 2027 ($359 Phoenix Open week), $169 from mid-May, plus 9% tax
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Resort courses: open to the public, cheaper with a room
Courses that belong to a hotel. Anyone can play most of them, but guests get the better tee times and a stay-and-play rate.
Jason Straka (Ambiente); Arthur Hills (Padre)
Camelback Golf Club
Camelback Golf Club is the JW Marriott Camelback Inn's 36 holes, 3.5 miles from the resort by shuttle: Ambiente, Jason Straka's 2013 rebuild of the old Indian Bend course into a 7,221-yard modern test, and Padre, Arthur Hills's tree-lined classic. The public books 60 days ahead and resort guests 90; there are no nine-hole rates, juniors play free after 3 p.m. with a paying adult, and both courses close in turn for overseeding from late September to early November.
Not published; check the club's online booking for your date. No nine-hole rates; resort packages bundle daily golf
Scott Miller
Kierland Golf Club
Kierland Golf Club is the Westin Kierland's 27 holes, three Scott Miller nines named Ironwood, Acacia and Mesquite, open to the public on dynamic pricing and wrapped around the resort on the Phoenix side of Scottsdale Road. It is friendly, flat-ish resort golf rather than a desert gauntlet, with caddies on request, a Scottish pub at the clubhouse and Kierland Commons across the street. It never fully closes for overseeding: nine holes rest while eighteen stay open.
Dynamically priced by demand with no standing green fee; check the booking page for your date
Jay Morrish
The Boulders Golf Club
The Boulders Golf Club is the Boulders Resort's 36 holes in Carefree, two Jay Morrish courses wound through 12-million-year-old granite piles. It is semi-private: one course is for members, the other for resort guests and the public, booked online up to 90 days ahead at dynamic prices, 15% off for resort guests. Play the South for the rocks, and check the fall overseed dates before you book.
Dynamically priced by day, time and availability, with no published rate card; resort guests get 15% off, and tax and a reclaimed-water surcharge are added
Phil Smith
The Phoenician Golf Club
The Phoenician's golf course is 18 holes at the foot of Camelback Mountain, par 71 and 6,518 yards from the back, reshaped by Phil Smith from the resort's original 27 holes. It is open to the public, managed by Troon Golf, best played on the resort's unlimited-golf package, and shorter than the big desert courses, with nothing hidden and the Valley view on every other tee. It closed October 5 to 22 in 2026 for overseeding.
Not published; tee times are sold through the club's online booking at the day's rate. Resort packages bundle unlimited golf
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Municipal courses: the locals’ rate
City-owned courses with city prices. Flat, busy, and the best value in the Valley, especially with a resident card.
14 courses and clubs
Private clubs: what is behind the gate
Members and their guests only. No public tee times, so this is the history, the courses and the honest answer to “can I play it?”
Perry Dye
Ancala Country Club
Ancala Country Club is the private club of the guard-gated Ancala community on Via Linda, at the foot of the McDowell Mountains in east Scottsdale: an 18-hole, par-72 Perry Dye course of 6,815 yards that opened in 1990, with tennis, a pool, a fitness center and the Overlook Kitchen and Bar. Arcis Golf owns it. It is the approachable end of Scottsdale private golf: a 2021 guide put the full golf initiation deposit at $7,000.
Members and guests
Robert "Red" Lawrence; renovation by David Zinkand (2013)
Desert Forest Golf Club
Desert Forest Golf Club, in Carefree, is the course many architects call the first desert golf course ever built: Robert "Red" Lawrence's 1962 layout below Black Mountain, laid over the land with no out-of-bounds, no water and no fairway bunkers, built for walking two decades before Desert Highlands made target golf famous. It is par 72, about 7,200 yards, small, member-owned and joined by sponsored invitation.
Members and guests
Jack Nicklaus (with Bob Cupp); putting course by Gary Panks
Desert Highlands Golf Club
Desert Highlands is the private club at the foot of Pinnacle Peak where Scottsdale desert golf began: Lyle Anderson's 1983 community around Jack Nicklaus's first desert course, home of the first two Skins Games in 1983 and 1984, and, from the mid-1980s, the first 18-hole putting course in the United States. Membership comes with a house, 563 families share it, and the course reopened in November 2025 after a restoration of nearly $10 million.
Members and guests
Jack Nicklaus (six courses); Bill Brownlee and Wendell Pickett (Seven)
Desert Mountain Club
Desert Mountain Club is the biggest private golf club in Scottsdale: about 8,300 acres at the city's northern edge, six Jack Nicklaus Signature courses, a par-54 seventh, a string of clubhouses and more than 5,000 residents. Lyle Anderson founded it in 1986 on the old Carefree Ranch; the members have owned it since the start of 2011. No course sells a tee time, so you play it as a member's guest or not at all.
Members and guests
Michael Poellot and Bradford L. Benz
Gainey Ranch Golf Club
Gainey Ranch Golf Club is the private 27-hole club inside the gated Gainey Ranch community at Scottsdale Road and Doubletree Ranch Road, built in the mid-1980s on Daniel Gainey's old Arabian horse ranch. Its three nines, the Lakes, the Dunes and the Arroyo, are by Michael Poellot and Bradford Benz, and it belongs to the Invited Clubs (ClubCorp) network. Guests play with a member; a full golf membership was reported at a $100,000 initiation fee and $1,425 a month.
Members and guests
Dick Turner
Pinnacle Peak Country Club
Pinnacle Peak Country Club is the oldest private club in north Scottsdale: founded in 1976 by developer Jerry Nelson at Pima and Pinnacle Peak roads, before the roads to it had even been built, and owned by its members from the start. The 18-hole Dick Turner course is a traditional, tree-lined parkland design in the high desert, membership is capped at 325, and in 2026 both golf and social memberships were reported sold out.
Members and guests
Jay Morrish and Dick Bailey (Mine Shaft); Jackson Kahn Design (The Other Course, The Bad Little Nine)
Scottsdale National Golf Club
Scottsdale National is GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons's private club in the open desert east of Pinnacle Peak: the 2003 Golf Club Scottsdale, bought in 2013 for $600,000 plus debt, rebuilt into 45 holes (Mine Shaft, The Other Course and the par-3 Bad Little Nine) with two clubhouses and member villas. It is invitation-only, and its one rule is that no member may spoil another member's good time.
Members and guests
Billy Casper and Greg Nash; renovation by Phil Smith
Terravita Golf & Country Club
Terravita is the member-owned golf community at the foot of Black Mountain, near the Carefree border: an 823-acre gated neighborhood around an 18-hole course designed by Billy Casper and Greg Nash that opened in 1994 and was rebuilt by Phil Smith in 2022. It plays 7,112 yards, par 72, golf membership is open to non-residents, and members drive their own carts. It is private; you play it with a member.
Members and guests
Tom Lehman and John Fought
The Country Club at DC Ranch
The club people search for as 'DC Ranch Country Club' is The Country Club at DC Ranch, the member-owned private club on Thompson Peak Parkway in DC Ranch. Its 18-hole course, redesigned by Tom Lehman and John Fought, climbs toward the McDowells from a Hacienda clubhouse, and it has hosted the Arizona Amateur. Membership is not tied to owning a home; golf equity memberships trade at market prices, reported at $290,000 and up in 2026.
Members and guests
Tom Fazio
The Estancia Club
Estancia is the private club on the north slope of Pinnacle Peak: one Tom Fazio course, opened in 1996, that Golf Digest named the best new private course in America that year and has ranked the best private course in Arizona every year since 2009. It is 7,314 yards from the back, played with caddies, member-owned and joined by invitation only. Nobody books a tee time here; you go as a member's guest.
Members and guests
Tom Fazio
The Mirabel Club
Mirabel is the small private club tucked against Desert Mountain's south side: a Tom Fazio course opened in December 2001, par 71 and 7,146 yards, inside a 713-acre gated community at about 3,000 feet, with a lodge-style clubhouse and a caddie program. Discovery Land Company developed it and handed it to the members in 2009. Golf membership is capped at 275, and the only way on is as a member's guest.
Members and guests
Tom Weiskopf
The Silverleaf Club
The Silverleaf Club is the private club of Silverleaf, the guard-gated top tier of DC Ranch in the canyons of the McDowell Mountains: a 7,322-yard, par-72 Tom Weiskopf course that opened in 2002 and a 50,000-square-foot 'Rural Mediterranean' clubhouse with a spa that followed in 2004. Membership comes in golf and clubhouse tiers, open to non-residents; a 2018 real-estate guide put the golf initiation at $150,000. Visitors see it from the Preserve trails above.
Members and guests
Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish
Troon Country Club
Troon Country Club is the private club that gave Troon its name: the first course Tom Weiskopf designed, with Jay Morrish, opened in 1986 and named for Royal Troon, where Weiskopf won the 1973 Open. It has hosted three USGA championships, most recently the 2025 U.S. Mid-Amateur, and was rebuilt by Weiskopf in 2020. It is members only; Troon North, the public courses up the road, is the one you can book.
Members and guests
Phil Mickelson with Gary Stephenson (Lower); Tom Fazio (Upper)
Whisper Rock Golf Club
Whisper Rock is the small, invitation-only club in north Scottsdale where a couple of dozen tour pros keep their memberships: 36 holes, the Lower Course that was Phil Mickelson's first design (2001) and the Upper Course by Tom Fazio (2005), climbing through a hill of boulders. It has around 300 members, a six-figure joining fee and no public access of any kind.
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Green fees move with the season, the day and the hour, and every course closes for a few weeks in autumn to overseed. Each guide shows the date its facts were last checked; confirm with the course before you build a trip around a tee time.