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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Very Basic; old style; flat
Not a course that keeps your attention as many holes are very similar to the previous ones.
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.
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!
Just got to cold.
Couldn't finish round due to coldest temps in 25 years.
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.
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.
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.
The trees keep you honest while still allowing you to enjoy your round
The course was in the best condition I have seen in a while
boring
The course was boring flat and poor shape there is 100,000. holes on the course 18 on the greens and 82,000.on tne fairways made by goffers.You were better of in ruff where the grass was dorment then in the fairway.
Caddy Shack
This course is in need of Bill Murray. Ground hog holes all over the course. Tee boxes weren't in very good shape, but the greens were rolling pretty nice. Course definitely needs work.
teeboxes were average, fairways need lots of improvement, greens were fair
Good thing the 1h15 min trip was worth it for the scenery. The course needs lots of attention such as fairways, ball washers (non-existant), however for the money it was OK.
Tres Rios... new name for an old stand by...
I like Tres Rios... always have. Been playing it routinely for 20 plus years. The course is as tough or as leisurely as you want to make it... Single digit handicappers will be pushed from the tips and the rest of us can find a suitable length to make it a good outing. Green fees are almost always a bargain.
Tres Rios is never in superb shape nor is it a goat track. In years past it got a little shaggy, but renovations appear to have enduring qualities and a ton of undergrowth has been removed.
Staff is decent for the most part if not the most efficient and rounds are typically about 4 hours, stretching longer on Friday and Saturday, but if you can brave the heat in the summer, even high teen or low twenty handicappers can get around under three hours... I used to play with a couple single digit guys and walking we could play under two hours... This course would be in my top 10 bang for the buck list.
the course needs marshals to keep the speed up. we waited on every tee.
course was in good shape compared to previous owners