Grand Canyon University Golf Course

Found a course open Christmas day and enjoyed a round. Tee boxes in good shape, most greens were well maintained and fast. Course is forgiving on off fairway shots. Very few out on course so we played quickly.

I always like playing this course. One needs to be a fairly good bunker player as you will find yourself in them. Course is challenging and geens have subtle breaks. The day I played there was a frost delay so pace of play was a little slow.

Me and my brother in law played on Sunday and I have been to GCU a few times before but the pace of play on the back 9 was absolutely terrible. The foursome behind us hit into our foursome 3 times before we finally said something and the ranger was just a young kid. I get this is a college course but there needs to be some better management or something because for 100 dollars I have to say was quite disappointed fairways were in good condition but everything else was poor. Plus on like 5 holes they have wood chips instead of rough. Is that a normal thing? Overall have to say was not worth the money. I play Palmbrook all the time and it’s always in good shape with respectful people for almost half the price with GPS and range balls included. Will not be going back anytime soon.

Many deep bunkers guarding the greens make this course fun to play. A bogey is success.

This course is really consistent as you would expect with a course that hosts a college golf program. Pace of play was right around 4:45 which would usually be slow but for a Saturday in December in AZ was fine. It didn’t feel slow, just realized the time at the end. Course was a little more wet than usual and had a couple of balls plug on high wedge shots but that was the only thing that wasn’t as good as it usually is. Worth the money and you always know it’s gonna be a good round.