Verrado Golf Club - Founders Course

Beautiful course, challenging, fast greens, thick rough, rewarded for staying in fairways. Highly recommend.

I golf this course a couple times a year. It is in my top 3 courses in Phoenix. I live on a Nicholas designed course and I feel the Founders course is better. I recommend this course to any true golfer. The facilities are nice and the restaurant is relaxing.

Great course, scenic and in great shape. Friendly staff

The course is very challenging but forgiving at times. Great course to play!

The course was in a super great shape. Staff is very pleasant and wonderful service and tips.

Great course in great condition makes for a great day.

Founders is a fantastic layout, with a good mix of elevation change/desert golf. I’ve played it a couple times and this time it was not in the best condition I’ve seen it in.

The fairways were too soft.....no roll on any tee shot......and subsequently the greens were very dry and hard......not the best combo of conditions for scoring but puts still rolled true. The bunkers were horrible......I don’t know if it was from the monsoons, but geez they need some sand and TLC.

I’m being picky because I hold Verrado in the same light as courses like We Ko Pa, Troon North, Wildfire etc

Hopefully it’s dialed next visit.

Booked same morning via GolfNow Hot Deal that truly was a great price. Summer round midday, paired with another pleasant gentleman and we had the course to ourselves for the first 7 holes, then two groups waved us through, we finished in 2 1/2 hours. Nice design, large fairway landing areas for a desert course, helping us play well and not search for balls in the desert sometimes more common on narrower AZ courses. Bunkers ok. Greens, tee boxes and fairways excellent. Saw the beer cart 4 or 5 times, plenty of water stations. You do get an unusual amount of jet noise from the nearby AFB, though only a minor distraction and not ear shattering at all. Staff very friendly- they did not meet me at the bag drop, so carried in my own bag- but it’s summer and likely minimum staffing. Recommended if you can get it for less than $40 summer/fall and $100 winter/spring.

I AM 77 YEARS OF AGE AND ME AND MY WIFE PLAY A LOT OF GOLF IN AND AROUND THE PHOENIX AREA. WE PLAY MAINLY IN THE SUMMER. THE RATES ARE LOW AND WE CAN AFFORD TO PLAY MANY COURSES.

ON 08/28/2018 I SAW A TEE TIME FOR VERRANDO FOUNDERS CLUB ON GOLF NOW AT 11 27 A.M FOR $11.00 PLUS FEE AND TAX. BOTH OF US FOR AROUND $33.00 I JUMPED ON IT SINCE I HAD NEVER PLAYED IT BEFORE. WE LIVE IN TEMPE AND IT WAS A LONG DRIVE BUT WELL WORTH IT ABOUT 1 HR EACH WAY.

WE ARRIVED AT ABOUT 11 10 AND THE BAG BOY WAS RIGHT THERE TO TAKE THE BAGS FROM THE CAR AND PLACE THEM ON A CART. MY WIFE HAD WENT TO CHECK IN AND WHEN SHE CAME BACK WE WERE READY TO GO. WE GOT DIRECTIONS TO THE FIRST TEE AND AWAY WE WENT . WE COMPLETED OUR PLAY AT 2 30 . WE NEVER SAW ANYONE ELSE ON THE COURSE. WE PLAYED AT OUR LIESURE AND FOUND THE COURSE TO BE ONE OF THE BEST WE HAD EVER PLAYED IN OUR 50 YEARS OF GOLFING.

I WOULD COMPARE THE COURSE TO THE BAD LANDS GOLF COURSE IN LAS VEGAS WHICH IS NO LONGER IN PLAY. ALTHOUGH THIS COURSE IS IN BETTER CONDITION THAN THE BADLANDS THE LAY OF THE COURSE IS SIMILAR.

THE OTHER HIGH END GOLF COURSES WE HAVE PLAYED THE BOULDERS, DINOSAUR,TPC DO NOT HOLD A CANDLE TO THE VERRADO FOUNDERS CLUB. I SURE HOPE WE FIND IT AVAILABLE AGAIN FOR $11.00. I WOULD ENJOY PLAYING IT AGAIN.

OH I DID SHOOT A 81 I COULD NOT GET THAT PUTT TO FALL.

Very beautiful course. Suitable for all kinds of players. It may be a drive but it will be well worth it to play this course. Have nothing bad to say about this course. They put in the work to make any player enjoy a round worth playing and wanting to claim the course.

Very good, tight desert course with t box options for advanced to not so advanced players. With only a few exceptions, fairways and greens were in excellent condition

Heard Verrado was nice and I was not disappointed...course in great shape for summer...greens looked long but were not...nice consistent speed...will definitely play again.

Fairways: plush and in great shape

Greens: On the firm side, but a bit bumpy and slow

Rough: thick

Bunkers: very firm

Friendly staff with timely beverage cart and good marshal presence.

One negative that has been true for years: golf carts shut down when you get within 10-30 yards of "no carts" signs. Signs should be placed more accurately via GPS.

Rode the Silvers (6833/71.9/130), playing 36 holes as a single in 5H. The weather was clear and hot, 116 when I finished @ 530pm.

I had planned on playing both courses, but passed on Victory after finding over that they punched their greens about 10 days ago. Founders was punched about 3 weeks ago and was 95% healed.

I like desert golf and John Fought designs, so it's not shocking that I really liked this course. Tom Lehman was a co-designer, first experience on one of his courses.

Some tight holes, but nothing too bad. Many holes have upscale homes around them, but they are far enough away that they blend in and are not noticeable. Some big traps to avoid and desert scape no mans land surrounds almost every hole.

This course featured 17 3/4 holes of good to excellent golf. Hole 13's green being the exception. Short, 291 yard par 4 from the Silvers, severely uphill.

For those of you familiar with Rustic Canyon, this green was a combination of the worst features of the greens on holes 12 & 15 @ RC. The pin was on top of a severe mound that would remind you of #12 @ Rustic Canyon, except larger. The big difference is that on #12 @ Rustic, you just roll down to a flat area if you miss the table top. This green had a front like #15 @ Rustic, where you could run a putt or chip a few feet by a pin close to the slope and end up 30 yards down the hill in the fairway. Trust me, I'm speaking from experience!

The Bermuda tees were mostly lush and well maintained. Same for the fairways.

First time in awhile I have played in Bermuda rough that was allowed to grow up. The ball usually sat down, and anything but whacking it out and trying to advance it maybe 125 yards was usually out of the question. I dropped out from a sprinkler and the ball sat down so much in about 4" tall rough I was lucky to gorilla a SW back into the fairway.

The Bermuda greens were firm and medium speed. I had a hard time with the speeds even the 2nd time through.

The customer service was excellent from everyone. Cart gal out making the rounds. All grass range with complementary balls, nice practice area. Many tees are a long ways from the last green, so even if it was not scorching, it would be a challenge to walk. Definitely recommended.

it is a challenge for any skill level. The cart girl, Marge was amazing. I look forward to playing there again. The only negative was that the GPS was not working .