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Cave Creek Golf Course
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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.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 72 | 6732 yards | 71.8 | 124 |
| White | 72 | 6207 yards | 69.3 | 118 |
| White (W) | 72 | 6207 yards | 73.0 | 129 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 5552 yards | 71.6 | 121 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue M: 71.5/125 | 339 | 510 | 187 | 387 | 397 | 556 | 212 | 437 | 414 | 3439 | 363 | 521 | 370 | 171 | 392 | 383 | 518 | 208 | 407 | 3333 | 6772 |
| Back Combo M: 70.1/118 | 339 | 477 | 187 | 387 | 397 | 556 | 212 | 407 | 389 | 3351 | 362 | 482 | 341 | 171 | 392 | 361 | 518 | 208 | 407 | 3242 | 6593 |
| White M: 69.0/116 W: 74.6/126 | 334 | 477 | 153 | 361 | 348 | 518 | 170 | 407 | 389 | 3157 | 312 | 482 | 341 | 150 | 370 | 361 | 491 | 176 | 359 | 3042 | 6199 |
| Combo M: 67.4/113 W: 73.2/124 | 334 | 418 | 153 | 334 | 348 | 518 | 170 | 370 | 373 | 3018 | 312 | 408 | 314 | 150 | 370 | 338 | 491 | 176 | 359 | 2918 | 5936 |
| Red M: 65.9/107 W: 71.6/120 | 307 | 418 | 129 | 334 | 325 | 491 | 120 | 370 | 373 | 2867 | 290 | 408 | 314 | 106 | 344 | 338 | 477 | 136 | 320 | 2733 | 5600 |
| Handicap | 15 | 5 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 8 | |||
| Par | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 15 | 5 | 17 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 18 | 2 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 10 |
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Photo submitted by Bodhi97 on 05/05/2025
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Photo submitted by Nickpasa on 02/13/2025
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Photo submitted by Nickpasa on 02/13/2025
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Photo submitted by Nickpasa on 02/13/2025
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Photo submitted by Nickpasa on 02/13/2025
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Photo submitted by Nickpasa on 02/13/2025
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Photo submitted by u314164057374 on 05/27/2024
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From the pro shop to 18. Photo submitted by Vicain on 04/26/2024
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Blue tees #10. #1 fairway in the background. Photo submitted by Vicain on 04/26/2024
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My son and I love playing at 4pm so peaceful Photo submitted by FrenchieLodge on 08/15/2023
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Nice setting Photo submitted by u066108556 on 03/10/2023
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Photo submitted by aralko on 12/26/2022
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Photo submitted by u659392904 on 06/24/2022
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Photo submitted by u659392904 on 06/24/2022
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Fairways and greens Photo submitted by wermer3 on 03/28/2021
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Ready Photo submitted by Cactuskid on 01/11/2021
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Photo submitted by LADIVELVETSWING on 11/30/2015
Having some fun
Had some fun amidst all of the CV panic. I saw some people bring out their kids to play. Lots of walkers on the course. Maybe that made it a little slow or maybe it was all of the families. Don't know, but everyone was having fun. That's all that matters. The place was packed.
The course was a little dry. Lots of dead spots. Maybe this virus crap has made some of the superintendence to stay home. Or maybe it is getting close to over seed time. Don't know. I do know that a lot of people were out enjoying the day.
Best bang
Great staff, great practice facilities, course is in great shape, one of my favorites!
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Cart paths are rocks. People walking everywhere!
Cart paths are rocks... people walking , jogging on paths.
Staff is friendly but course is really beat up
Great Value
The best value in town for the money. Playing twilight hours or using Golf Now or a Phoenix Golf card works the best. Really good layout as well. Most Fairways are generous or have adjacent bailouts but 8, 9, 11 and 14 will cost you big numbers for wayward shots. Fairways are sometimes in rough shape- most likely beecause coarse is built on an old landfill. The greens are difficult but usually in great shape. Coarse crosses Cave Creek Wash 4 times so it’s a good workout to walk.
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Good walking course
Managed the COVID19 situation well.
The rental pull carts are a shipwreck. Worse condition of any course we have played. Staff informed us at check in the pull carts had not been sanitized!?!? Fortunately we carried sanitary wipes. Starter was friendly and managed a bit of confusion that occurred. Our GolfNow Rez confirmation was for 9:20 and the course had our T time at 9:12. Not sure what happens there but have had confusion with other GolfNow bookings.
Nasty greens
The course is in fairly decent shape. There are brown patches of dirt on some of the fairways, but the main issue is the greens. Many of them are sloping and the holes were cut on the side of a slope. This makes for extremely difficult putting. Hard to get a good score when you are on the green in regulation, but you are lucky to three-putt.
Tee time was not available
I received confirmation that the tee time chosen was booked only to find out the time was actually 30 minutes earlier. In order to fit us in we had to break up our party of 4. Extremely disappointing. Golf course was very helpful trying to accommodate on a busy Saturday unfortunately we should have been advised by Golf Now as the tee time was booked 4 days in advance so there was ample time to follow up with a notification
I forgot to mention that the cart paths are very rough. They are mostly hard dirt or rocks and you do a lot of bouncing.
Still wet
Course in great shape, be careful, alot of standing water you can't see.
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Cave Creek
Really Friendly Ranger, pretty course, plays pretty fair, greens in excellent shape!
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A river runs through it
They were nice enough to allow walking after an incredible 4 days of pouring rain and hail. Course was wet without a doubt but I had the 6700~ yards to myself! Love this course!
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Unbelievable greens
I thought the course overall was better than I thought it would be, considering it is a Phoenix muni course. Price is reasonable. However, the greens all seem to have extreme undulations to them, bordering on unfair.
Good course
Good course nice fairways greens just starting to grow in
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Slow Course of the Season
Wow! 5 hours to play on Saturday morning. No one on course to encourage faster play. We waited on every tee box and fairway. Open course with very little trouble. Disappointing!
Good little Muni
For the price this is a good course. Fairways were taken care of but the rough wasn’t overseeded and a bit patchy. Finished in 3 hours and 40 minutes with two walking. Greens are challenging and overall it was a decent course.
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nice layout and challenging but slow.
One of the few fairly priced courses in the area and it does get a lot of play. It is an interesting layout and the greens are challenging with lots of undulations and speed variations. It took almost 5 hours to play on Fri pm starting at 1 pm.
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