El Rio Golf Course

Just started golfing again after many years. A great course to start on. Well kept. My only complaint is that they did not want to honor my golf now reservation price. They said I needed to pay online but that is not an option online. Sort of frustrating.

Fun course. Some of the sprinklers were leaking. lots of areas with pooling water. Otherwise fun golfing!

Decent course, fun to play occasionally. Course is narrow so if you spray your ball all over, probably not a great choice for play. Course was in good shape, greens are a little small but a good challenge for GIR. El Rio usually has pretty good rates all year round, especially in the winter when most of the city courses have ridiculous rates and very slow pace of play.

Greens were in excellent condition. The fairways were spotty. Course is flat with tree lined fairways. The range was not open, for no apparent reason.

This is an easy to play course. With wide fairways and not many obstructions it allows for errors will still providing some challenge.

With Golf prices the way they are these days on most other courses, those of us who have a budget for entertainment can always depend on El Rio to deliver a nice round of affordable golf on a fun course.

El Rio is a nice little muni, especially considering its age and location. Plays pretty short. To make up for this (and the loss of many trees in a storm a few years back), the architects have planted several trees in the middle of fairways at rather odd locations. Fun course for a fast round. Conditions are very consistent throughout the year.

This course is so historic, every golfer should play it at least once. The fairways are straight, but the bunkers around the greens are challenging and the greens themselves are undulating and tough (but slow...they aren't trimmed as much as should be). Fairways are in bad condition, greens are in okay to good condition.

Unfortunetly the fairways were being aerated.

Road close by someone honked on my downswing...ended up being the best drive I had all day.

Don't miss the Wall of Fame.
Apparently Lee Trevino never played here but many famous folk and golfers did back when it was a country club.

The fairways were recenly aerated and it makes for difficult play on the faiurways. However, the greens and the fringe of the greens are in the best condition of any course I played in the last couple of weeks.

Nearly every green had a sand trap on both front edges. Every hole looked the same. Course design very boring.
Employee managing the check in was very terse and unfriendly. Starter was grumpy and rude.
Play was slow due to walkers followed by cart riders.

Would not recommend this course for vacationing golfers. Would not return to .
Green fees posed at course were cheaper than we paid on Ggolfnow.

I am a novice golfer and I really enjoyed this course. I have played on other courses in Az and did not like them as much.

The extreme amount of sand bunkers made it challenging. 90% of the course was dead grass which made it confusing on where the next hole was. We will not return here.

this course has a lot of history to it. It is too bad that the city can't take better care of it. they did not overseed the fairways and the greens were very bumpy with alot of grass missing. the golf carts are very old. you end breathing alot of fumes. but i like playing the course, i hope that the city will start taking better care of it.

The course has been "let go" by the City. Could be a good track for moderate to high handicappers. Good walking course.

Played on 2/23/13, fairways were dry, looked like they havent been watered in weeks. Greens were really green and clean. No rangers on course, 4-some in front of us were slower than molasses. Which made a 4 hour round of golf 5 hours! I know this facility is closing but at least make it playable for the price.

Course is in terrible condition. Fairways are dry and yellow and greens not much better. This course used to be nice, but lack of care and attention makes it a poor value. Will not play this course in the future.

Do not play this course!!! The staff is awful and not accommodating at all. I didn't even play because of how rude they were.

Speed of play was excruciatingly slow. There is no way this golf course should play 5 hours. There are 2 starters. maybe one of them could ride around the course once in a while. The 4some in front of us had 3 holes open in front of them all the way around. And they parked in front of the green so we had to wait for them to clean their clubs and load up before moving the cart.

This course is in no way the most challenging, but for the cost you really can't find a better kept municipal course in city limits.