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3.8
1441 Reviews (1441)
5 Stars
223
4 Stars
656
3 Stars
344
2 Stars
136
1 Stars
82
Conditions
3.5
Value
3.9
Layout
3.9
Friendliness
4.3
Pace
3.7
Amenities
3.5
80.6%
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1116 out of 1441 reviews
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4.0
26 Reviews (26)
5 Stars
6
4 Stars
15
3 Stars
5
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
0
Conditions
3.9
Value
4.3
Layout
4.1
Pace
4.0
Amenities
4.1
StaffFriendliness
4.5
96.2%
Recommend this course
25 out of 26 reviews
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3.8
122 Reviews (122)
5 Stars
30
4 Stars
58
3 Stars
21
2 Stars
8
1 Stars
5
Conditions
3.6
Value
3.9
Layout
4.0
Pace
3.7
Amenities
3.6
StaffFriendliness
4.3
82.0%
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100 out of 122 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Public/Municipal
Style Traditional
Par 72
Length 6732 yards
Slope 124
Rating 71.8

Cave Creek Golf Course is Phoenix's most popular municipal course, seeing about 100,000 rounds yearly. In 1983, Cave Creek began as a landfill reclamation project. It's a sort of pioneer in environmental design, proving similar spots can find environmentally friendly uses. It's open dawn to dusk, year-round.

Eighteen holes of par-72 golf take golfers over 6,732 yards on the Cave Creek Golf Course, kicking off on the par-4 first hole, which measures 363 yards from the blue tees, before things get long on the second hole, which measures 510 yards from the blue tees. That's just one of four long holes, with the sixth hole measuring 532 yards from the blue tees, the 11th coming in at 521 yards from the blue tees, and the sixth having a distance of 518 yards from the blue tees. The round concludes after a suggested playing time of four hours and 10 minutes on the 18th hole, a par 4 that measures 388 yards from the blue tees.

The city of Phoenix has contracted with several hotel chains to offer stay-and-play packages for golfers at the Cave Creek Golf Course and other municipal tracks.

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Course Details

Year Built 1983
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Jack Snyder

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
GPS No
Pull-carts Yes
Caddies No
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Fivesomes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes

Food & Beverage

Restaurant

Available Facilities

Clubhouse
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3.8
1441 Reviews (1441)
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Reviews 78
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Top 1000 Contributor
Previously Played

Good public course

In good summer shape. Redoing some of the tee boxes that were needed to be done!!! Greens are in good shape. Great summer pricing.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
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4.0
Previously Played

Great value

Minus the temporary tee boxes the course is great especially for the summer rates. For summer conditions are great. Carts with gps are also very nice

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Reviews 12
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

A couple Tee's under repair the rest of the course in good shape

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
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Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
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Conditions Fair
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
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Reviews 78
Skill Intermediate
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I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Previously Played

Nice public course

Good public couse, challenging layout, greens in good condition, fairways need more grass lits if dirt spots. Overall nice public course fir the price!!

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
First Time Playing

Over priced

For the shape the course is in it’s over priced. Could have golfed closer to home for less on a course that is in better condition

Also, Golf Now originally had my tee time at 9:04 then changed it to 11:04 the next day. Got to the course at 11. They said iit was 9:04

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
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Reviews 8
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
2.0
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Course was in Terrible Condition

It was better to play in the rough than on the fairway. The course was in terrible shape and to charge that much for a round in the summer is horrendous. I would not recommend this course and will not be returning during the summer. Most of the "cart paths" were dirt and very few were paved throughout the course.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Fairly Easy
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Reviews 78
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Previously Played

Good course

Some of the fairways are dirt n mud. Tee boxes need to be leveled, some have a bad slope to them!!!!

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
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Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 73
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 1000 Contributor
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Reviews 8
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Terrible Condition

The course was in terrible condition. The rough was better to hit from than the fairway. The greens were OK, but not great and everywhere you drove was on dirt and bumpy car paths. For the price, it wasn’t worth the money.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great staff, needs better directional signs on course

Didn't know where we were going from some greens to the next tee box. Had my wife with us so there was a couple of holes where the men's tees were not even close to the women's. Staff was awesome though. Still great value for summer rates.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Fair
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 44
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

It's Cave Creek what do you expect...

Wish the greens wouldn't be so slow and bumpy... New Cart's are good, but why not go with electric Golf Carts? In Europe it is even prohibited to use gas Golf Carts!

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

CC Muni

While the course has been fun to play in the past, it was being overseeded and the greens were "sanded" which made the round less than enjoyable, especially when charging the normal greens fees.

None of this information was made available prior to arrival and too late to opt out of the round.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Hot weather
Used cart

Experience at Cave Creek Golf Course

Played Cave Creek in the afternoon for the reduced golf fee after 3pm.

Hit balls on the range. The tee box areas were ok. Its nice to hit shots with some grass on the tees.

It was a hot day so I expected the ball to roll farther due to hot weather and hard fairways. It is difficult to play when you hit a good drive but end up on hardpan for your second shot. With the hot weather, hardpan fairways is expected.

The greens were actually ok in the hot weather. Lots of undulations and gave a great challenge to get the ball inside the 5 ft circumference of the hole.

Sand bunkers could always use some good sand to hot a sand shot but this is a public course.

Overall I have no regrets playing Cave Creek. I will play again and when the winter months arrive I will check out the course conditions to see if the fairways get more grass fairway for approach shots.

The staff were friendly and knowledgeable. They represented the course well.

The Cantina was good to get some drinks and food. The employees were friendly and polite

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 25
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 36
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser

They keep changing for the worse

Still my favorite course but they keep getting worse. There’s a girl who works in the clubhouse now and she is NOT friendly. There’s also now apparently a $25 cost if my girlfriend wants to ride in the cart with me. It’s summer… the place isn’t busy… why should I have to pay $25 for her to just ride along and watch?

Also there’s now a 4 drink maximum from the cantina. Oh and they have new carts that will shut off if you drive just slightly away from the hole. I was maybe 20 yards from the green and it shut off and the screen said that I was too far and needed to reverse back.

The course itself is fantastic but they must have new management because it’s gone way downhill in the past year.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Poor
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 23
Handicap 5-9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Rough around the edges

This layout is not horrible but it is rough in places and the greens were slow. It is a good place to practice long game shots but miss a green by a few feet and you can be chipping off gravel or bare dirt. I will play there again because it is fairly inexpensive and not far from home but it isn't a golf course you want to play every weekend.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once every three months
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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