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3.5
801 Reviews (801)
5 Stars
84
4 Stars
240
3 Stars
221
2 Stars
131
1 Stars
125
Conditions
3.1
Value
3.5
Layout
3.8
Friendliness
4.5
Pace
4.0
Amenities
3.5
65.1%
Recommend this course
516 out of 801 reviews
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3.6
33 Reviews (33)
5 Stars
7
4 Stars
14
3 Stars
7
2 Stars
3
1 Stars
2
Conditions
3.4
Value
3.5
Layout
3.6
Pace
3.9
Amenities
3.4
StaffFriendliness
4.5
69.7%
Recommend this course
23 out of 33 reviews
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Average Rating
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3.7
47 Reviews (47)
5 Stars
11
4 Stars
20
3 Stars
9
2 Stars
4
1 Stars
3
Conditions
3.4
Value
3.6
Layout
3.7
Pace
3.9
Amenities
3.4
StaffFriendliness
4.6
72.3%
Recommend this course
34 out of 47 reviews
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Course Highlights
The staff here consistently earns high praise for friendliness, and recent investment from ownership has brought course conditions to their best level in years. The challenging layout with quality greens and bunkers delivers strong value for golfers seeking an improving hidden gem.

About

Holes 18
Type Public
Style Parkland
Par 71
Length 6846 yards
Slope 121
Rating 71.4

Junior National Golf Club (formerly known as Tres Rios Golf Course at Estrella Mountain Park and Estrella Mountain Golf Course) is rich with dense forestry including eucalyptus, mesquite, and pine trees as well as cottonwoods. The course has a parkland-style layout with rolling fairways lined with trees and undulating greens that are medium-sized and fast. To add more challenge to the golf course, water hazards and bunkers come into play on several holes. The par-4 seventh hole is considered the most difficult driving hole on the course. There are stately trees off the tee and the second shot is to a narrow sloping green. Junior National Golf Club features multiple tee boxes for a variety of different golfing options.

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Course Details

Year Built 1966
Golf Season Year round
Architect Red Lawrence (1962)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
Caddies No
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover
Metal Spikes Allowed No

Food & Beverage

Bar, Snacks, Grill

Available Facilities

Clubhouse
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Reviews

3.5
801 Reviews (801)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 22
Patio Dining 12
19th Hole Scenic Views 9
Course Challenges Include:
Water Hazards 28
Bunkers 26
Undulating Greens 24
This course/club is great for:
Locals 52
Seniors 34
Beginners 33
This Course's Location is:
In the 'Burbs 33
Worth the Drive 27
Convenient to the City 25

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Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser

Hail in Phoenix???

Crazy!! Wind, Rain, Hail.....The course and weather won!!

Conditions Poor
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 25+
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser

A tad over booked, but the new GPS's in the golf carts are awesome!

A tad over booked, but the new GPS's in the golf carts are awesome!

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser

This course is in horrible condition

The overall condition of this course is horrible from tee to green. Grass is scarce, greens are bumpy with divot marks all over them and not well maintained. Not worth the money they charge at all

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser

Friendly staff,

Course was packed, 40 minute delay in getting out, no course Marshall, group in front fell 2 holes behind.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser

This course is not in very good condition.

Booked on line as a single,the pro shop staff forgot about me. I had to go and ask when I could play. Then they added me to a threesome who had already teed off. The cart I shared barely ran. The tee boxes were in bad need of repair. The pins had not been changed recently. I would not recomend this course to anyone.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0

Distressed course

I came away sour because the grass was lousy. The fairways needed toupees or comb-overs. But then I thought, what if I was a really good golfer wanting to practice shots off hard tack and bare areas. This would a bonanza for such a player as 50 percent of shots were distressed. I doubt I will return, although the layout and the surroundings are more than adequate. Good place for a good player wanting to practice these specialty shots. Traps were good, greens fair.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

The GPS feature on each cart is a nice feature.

We enjoy the challenge of the course, and the mountain views are nice.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser

Course needs a lot of work

Spotty fairways and way to many gofer holes on the course.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

Great Price, pace of play, and course.

Always in great shape and the best bargain for the conditions and course in the entire west valley.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

Frisky greens

Bring you A game. Fairways need a little work. Really nice big trees. Satisfactory 18 holes of golf. We will be back, fore!

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 11
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser

Nice course.

Nice course diffent from the rest of the courses around the area, theres no houses and no desert between the holes; Just grass and trees, makes playing a little easier. Pace of play is very slow 5+ hours for 18.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser

Needs Attention

Tres Rios could be a very good value course. It has a decent layout, it's walkable for those who like that, and provides enough challenge to make the round interesting.

The've got 2 really big problems but both should be easy fixes. Because of burrowing animals, their tee boxes are atrocious. Throw some dirt down, smooth it out, and give us somewhere to stand. You shouldn't have to hit from bad lies on the tee.

The second problem is why they've lost me as a customer. Due to the course layout, there is a natural bottleneck that begins at the 6th hole. Even though there is a "player assistant" who monitors this area, he refuses to do anything to keep things moving. And when he sits at a par 3 and watches 4 foursomes try to play the hole at the same time...

If you're going to play this course, plan on being the second or third group waiting to hit on every tee box.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser

Worth the money, but

The layout is fine and length is a challenge, but greens are a little slick and sloped. Course appears to have a gofer problem which takes away from the aethetics. But for $29 you have more than you paid for.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser

Very Basic; old style; flat

Not a course that keeps your attention as many holes are very similar to the previous ones.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a month
1.0
Verified Purchaser

Very poor conditions/

Our group was looking for some golf at an affordable price which Tres Rios offered but the condition of the course was not worth the money we paid. Very poor conditions from tee to green and staff was non responsive when feedback was given. We will not return to Tres Rios.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Beginner
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser

Will not be back

Had to wait almost an hour after our reserved tee time for a cart due to poor planning on the courses part. Then found the course to be in horrible condition...many dead trees, lots of dirt spots and obviously the course needed a bit more water. Was told there was a new owner so they need to come see what it looks like!

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Beginner
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

Just got to cold.

Couldn't finish round due to coldest temps in 25 years.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Extremely Easy
Played On
Reviews 25
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser

Greens & fairways need attention

Greens were dry and hard as marble and could not hold approach or even pitches very well at all.
Fairways were very poorly overseed and hard and bumpy. Also a big problem with groundhog dirt piles throughout course.
Driving range in poor shape and a safety net is needed to catch stray balls as your car could get hit driving towards parking lot.
Cart access to parking lot would have been nice as much of the parking is distant from bag drop area.
Tee blocks were uneven and many dry and rough.

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
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Played On
Reviews 5
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

The course does have great features.

The course does present excellent trials. The greens are somewhat fast and the slopes of the green are also somewhat steep. Very few flat greens. But overall the course is great to play.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser

Pray for its recovery

I used to play here with some regularity, but hadn't been back since April until yesterday. On the plus side, I do like the layout and scenic location near the mountains. Also, the greens, for the most part, are in good shape.. Unfortunately, the fairways are something else. Those 100,000 gopher holes have now been filled in. But you now how have dirt mounds rising over them. Hopefully, they will be leveled off soon. Until then, the place is a site for sore eyes. And while I managed to avoid the bunkers, a playing partner found them to be seriously lacking in sand.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
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