Verrado Golf Club - Founders Course

I have nothing but positives to say about my experience at the course! This was my first round at the founders and right when you pull in the views are amazing and it stays that way on the course as well. The staff is extremely nice and very helpful. The course was in great shape and the greens are fun but challenging!

First off I want to say that the staff was extremely professional and friendly from the start. The fairways and tee boxes were immaculate. The problem was that about five or six greens were almost unplayable! One of the guys in my group was a member and said that the overseed hadn’t gone well. The only other negative is the lack of GPS. Unless you play this course often, you have no idea where to hit and where to avoid. A course charging these kind of rates could afford GPS.

staff, course conditions, weather and paired up golfers were all great! if they can keep the price point around the mid $100's (or lower) i will continue to look for openings on this course with it's country-club like ambience

I've played the alternative track on the property but the Founder's Course is the gem - great staff and layout. Looking forward to a return visit.

Overall it was a good experience. Started out a rocky when I tried to have my autistic spectrum 8 year old son, whom I'm trying to introduce to the game, accompany me in the cart. Stephen in the golf shop insisted on charging me for him, even though he didn't bring any clubs and wasn't playing. In support of junior golf and expanding the game, I was hoping they would just let him ride along. I eventually negotiated to pay a cart fee for him. I guess they just wanted or needed the extra money that bad. But then they said the didn't have a cart for us and refunded my money! Fortunately, the outside service guys were top notch and pulled out another cart from the barn. I went back in and paid and off I went, albeit with no warm-up at this point.

The course itself was in decent shape and for Phoenix prices in the winter and wasn't a bad value. Front nine is fairly flat but back nine has a lot of elevation changes. Never had a bad lie in the fairway and, despite having a few thin spots, the sloped greens rolled smoothly with medium/fast speed. What would be the thicker rough around the greens was dormant, but the sand in the bunkers was well maintained and on the fluffier side. Only maintenance issue would be the tee boxes. Many are fairly small so it's hard to spread the tee markers around. As a consequence, areas on the white and silver tees get worn down and uneven.

The Grille was very nice and reasonably priced at $15-30 a plate with $6 beers. In addition to the inside restaurant, they have outdoor dining with a separate outdoor patio bar. People and families from the neighborhood were getting on a wait-list to dine for dinner. As it was winter, they had fire places and warmer lamps going when the sun went down. Looked to be a pretty popular place certainly a good amenity for after the round (or pre-round breakfast/lunch).

Great course and conditions, friendly staff. Green on #14 particularly hard to stop the ball.

Overall the course was in pretty good shape. Most fairways & tee boxes were in very good shape. Although the greens were a bit hard & dried out.

Group introduced at the 10th tee that made for a 5.5 hour round

The course was in great shape for this time of year. They just came off cart path only so it was nice. Weather was great, the staff was helpful and friendly.

Driving range was small but folks moved along quickly so we didn't wait too long.