Kokopelli Golf Course

Haven’t played here in a couple years and wish I hadn’t. Fairways have a TON of water/mud. Ball would land in fairway and have hard pan dirt lie, sitting on top of soggy wet ground, or just mud grass mix. Dry mud on greens from people tracking on their shoes. Lot of bare spots on or next to fairways. Very disappointed in the conditions here. Pins placed fairly tough spots considering you couldn’t get good lies to hit into greens. Overall wouldn’t recommend or play here again until there is a BIG change. Need new superintendent and a lot of time to get back into shape. Do yourself a favor and play somewhere else.

The greens and tee boxes were beautiful. Some of the fairways needed some work. It was not busy so pace of play was not an issue. Good value for the money. I will play there again. Thanks.

I actually love this course. It is a beautiful layout with a lot to offer visually. The holes provide some challenges but it is not unfairly set up. My issue is with the water retention, especially what is now the front nine. I can't get through the round without taking my shoes off at least twice to get the mud off of them. I usually play in the morning and I guess its shortly after the irrigation has been running but the lack of grass next to and around the golf path ensures that you almost always have to walk through the mud to get to your ball or the green. Plus the Sand Traps are an automatic free drop. They are just unplayable.

Having said that, the tee's and Greens are always in great shape. I think they are some of the best greens in the valley.

Unfortunately, I think it will take major renovations to build in proper drainage and seed grass in all the places that needs it. I go to Kokopelli when I want to get in a quick round. However, when I want to have a great golf experience, I look elsewhere.

Stay away from Kokopelli until they get their house in order. The course is a mess. Mud and standing water over the entire course. Some fairways are 60% dirt and 40% grass. This is the third time in the last 3 months I have booked this track and each time the conditions worsen.

Played this course November 2021 and looked forward to returning this past weekend May 2022.

Unfortunately, it seems as though the entire greenskeeper team has been on vacation since I played there 6 months ago in November. Mud and standing water in the cart paths. No full grass across any fairway or tee box. Anthills and dirt patches on the greens. Also, impossible to play out of sand traps as they are either muddy or have standing water.

Sad to see an ARCIS course in this kind of condition. Charging $70 to play a course in this bad of shape without warning, they should be charged with fraud.

Greens also have a million ball marks on them. They just don’t take care of the course. I’m done playing here.

They have let this course deteriorate before our eyes. The staff is awesome and super friendly but the course itself is just beat. I pt one 5 yards off the fairway on 16 and it went into a puddle so big there were ducks living in it. Garbage course and oh yea it was a 5 hour round. You would have to pay me to play there again.

I have not played here in many years, but this is not what I remembered. There were huge areas that are completely bare and a mojority of the sand traps were even worse. I will not play there again until these issues are addressed, nor will I recommend it to others.

This course seems to be under repair. The bunkers currently need sand and the back nine was being punched and graded. Very muddy on the back nine. Greens were in great shape, however, and the front nine was in much better shape than the back. Nice layout.

I like the layout of this course, wish it’s condition would match it.

Awesome course design. I read all the negative reviews, and put off by other golfer experiences, over the sand traps not being maintained. However, I decided to play the course anyway, and glad I did. The entire staff was awesome, including the guys cleaning the carts at the end of our round

Whenever the course owners can afford to spruce up the sand traps, it will definitely be in the top 5 courses in all of Arizona. White Sugar looking sand please, like what you see at Pebble Beach. (Special Request)

I just relocated to Arizona 5 months ago, from Northern California. I have played 15 different courses here, all nice courses, but Kokopelli has my highest vote, I.E. best greens and fairways. The layout was challenging. It wasn't a big deal to drop out of the traps that didn't have sand in them. Great pace of play. No course is perfect, but Kokopelli has enormous potential to be a $200-$300 per round course, and I wouldn't hesitate paying.

I have never played a course that each sand trap requires up to 4 eight foot rakes, due to size, but that's what I imagine, once they fill all 400 traps with sand. It could be 600 sand traps. I only know, there are way to many to count. Wow 1,600 rakes. Other than the GUR sand traps, the maintenance of the course was spot on.

At some point maybe like 5 years ago the greenskeeper must have gone on strike, quit, or was fired. The course itself is relatively short and laid out well but the conditions are terrible, this place needs to hire a greens professional, close for a year, plant some grass, fix bunkers and trim out the trees and brush. For $90.00 this is a ripoff there are many, many better options in Phoenix for this price that far exceed the quality. At first sight there is green grass that is watered possibly overwatered because there is standing water everywhere which doesn't help their situation because of carts driving through the puddles. The rest of it would insult a haymeadow to call it that, it is barren hard packed dirt. Again, BAD, just plain BAD.

Other than greens, once your off the fairway it's just dirt, dirt & more dirt. For the price it was disappointing.

This course has gone down hill over the last few years. It is not in great condition right now. We played and it looked like a Monsoon had just rolled through. Insane conditions for April.

I am surprised that they are even allowing customers to play this course in the condition it is in. Zero sand in the trap, and not one trap even raked for months. The course is mostly mud..not even joking. It was horrible. I would be completely embarrassed to be the owner of this course. My twosome played with another twosome and none of us will ever be back. I want a complete refund

Downhill since I last played here about 4 years ago.

Traps were terrible, fairways and greens likewise. It was

not easy to play because of the conditions.

My impression is that the superintendent is either understaffed or incompetent. This is a desert course and I know you have to irrigate but all bunkers are either mud or hard baked clay, no sand at all. No attempt at conditioning. There is standing water along the cart path from the runoff, it hasn't rained for weeks. There's plenty of green grass though, and I guess that's the objective.

The layout and terrain gives this course a great opportunity to be a great course. The condition of the course was poor. Some fairways condition were poor and the rough basically had no grass in most spots. The greens are in good condition. They need to spend some money improving this course and they could charge more to play.