Grand Canyon University Golf Course

Finally got to play this course!! Great condition, challenging greens and good pace. I will def be back again soon!!

The course is surrounded by very loud roads and lots of traffic noise. The layout is fine but oh my the sandtraps! They are deep and surround most every green and line fairways. The sand is pretty solid so getting out can be a challenge with how deep they are. Tough to make a nice landing on the green. Greens on the back were a little rough and didn't roll nicely. I would not choose to play this again for the price. Plays like a muni course.

Fairways & greens are in decent shape. All the greens are all elevated, which makes them very challenging. Also besides the elevated greens they do not have any grass around the greens. So, if you don't land in the middle of the green, your ball can easily roll off the back or the sides.

Way too many bunkers for my liking. Besides bunkers around the greens, pretty well every fairway has a bunker or 2.

You better plan on target golf. Or bring your beach towel

1. Staff was excellent

2. Course average condition - likely affected by current long dry spell.

3. Bunkers are overkill especially for our higher handicap partners.

4. Four kids (maybe 20 yrs old) jumped in at #10 and really slowed play. We were already pushed a bit for time to finish and their incursion (that shouldn’t have happened) made it impossible.

So the course is a nice layout. First the pace gets slow on a couple of par 3's. The bunkers need work. The sand was poor and full of pebble size rocks. It would also be nice if they had some golf ball washers at the tee boxes too. The amenities were nice. Their food was ok, but not great. However, the restaurant and bar are nice too. As for the value, with the local card deal it's OK, but for 100 plus dollars they need to address what I mentioned. If they do sink a little money into the course, it would go from average to excellent.

I have a city of Phoenix card but no tee times were available 9 days out so had to use the normal booking site. The rate online was $140 per player. Almost triple the normal rate due to the WM golf tournament being the same weekend. When I arrived I was charged $161 and had to ask for a refund of the difference from $140. It took 5 hours to finish golf. At one point we had four groups backed up on hole 8. Overall not a good experience especially since I was hosting a friend from out of town.

The course has an inordinate amount of bunkers…plays like a “practice” course. The greens are hard, very fast, and do not hold shots.

Have played here few times, and this is the worst I’ve seen it. Greens are in good shape, with good rolling speed, but sand traps are hard soil, and fairways have been painted or something that does not allow wedges to be play smoothly. I believe that for the course condition, course is overpriced

But the whole course is like one big green. Tight lies everywhere of course this time of the year because the grass is not growing. They get a lot of play here. Nice shop and nice restaurant and nice employees.

Initially, I really HATED this place. Mostly because I started off the bat with a double bogey, shortly followed by a triple bogey going from bunker to bunker. The front 9 was terrible. (it was actually lovely I just shot a 48)

The BACK 9, however, was wonderful. (I shot 40 on the back - if that gives you any clues to how terrible and inconsistent I am)

Overall I would 100% play here again. Great bang for the buck. Hopefully I warm up properly next time and shoot a respectable score on the front to make this great place even better.