Arizona Golf Resort
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3.1
3457 Reviews (3457)
5 Stars
544
4 Stars
1129
3 Stars
869
2 Stars
496
1 Stars
419
Conditions
2.7
Value
3.3
Layout
3.7
Friendliness
4.0
Pace
3.6
Amenities
3.3
58.4%
Recommend this course
2248 out of 3457 reviews
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Average Rating
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3.5
62 Reviews (62)
5 Stars
14
4 Stars
24
3 Stars
12
2 Stars
6
1 Stars
6
Conditions
3.2
Value
3.7
Layout
3.9
Pace
3.6
Amenities
3.5
StaffFriendliness
4.2
72.6%
Recommend this course
45 out of 62 reviews
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3.2
186 Reviews (186)
5 Stars
27
4 Stars
61
3 Stars
47
2 Stars
24
1 Stars
27
Conditions
2.9
Value
3.4
Layout
3.8
Pace
3.7
Amenities
3.3
StaffFriendliness
4.0
64.0%
Recommend this course
119 out of 186 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Resort
Style Traditional
Par 72
Length 6601 yards
Slope 120
Rating 70.8

Golden Hills Golf Club (formerly known as Arizona Golf Resort) is home to a golf school and a challenging 18-hole course. The golf course is known for its difficult and scenic par-3 holes. It is has a traditional layout that features large, subtly sloped greens that are guarded by bunkers. Stately cottonwood and eucalyptus trees line the generous fairways. Lakes form water hazards that come into play on five holes and there is also native rough throughout the course. With four sets of tee boxes, the course offers a suitable challenge for players of all skill levels. In addition to the course and the school, the Golden Hills Golf Club has a putting green and chipping area as well.

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Course Details

Year Built 1962
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Jack Snyder (1960)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
GPS No
Pull-carts No
Caddies No
Clubs No

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Dress code Collared shirt required

Food & Beverage

Bar

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Lounge, Conference Facilities, Banquet Facilities, Spa

Available Activities

Swimming, Billiards

Available Sports

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3.1
3457 Reviews (3457)
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Reviews 6
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 11/29/2023

Thank you for reviewing us, u000005406577. We see you rated the course 3-stars and are interested in learning what we can do to improve before your next round. Feel free to comment on this review or reach out to the team in the golf shop. We always appreciate the feedback. Thank you for playing Arizona Golf Resort, and we hope to see you again soon.

Played On
Reviews 15
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 11/29/2023

Hello grhowden. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave an excellent rating! We really appreciate your business. Please let us know what we can do for you in the future to earn that last star and thanks for choosing Arizona Golf Resort!

Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 11/20/2023

Hi, u000005352693. We are so pleased that you enjoyed your time at Arizona Golf Resort. We look forward to seeing you on the course soon for another 5-star experience!

Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Difficulty Moderate
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Commented on 11/29/2023

We love hearing about our golfers' experiences, birdie42. Please tell us more about what you enjoyed during your round. Thanks for choosing Arizona Golf Resort!

Played On
Reviews 21
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Pace of play

5 some in front of our 4 some was 4 holes behind and in no hurry.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Played On
Reviews 22
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Bad start to a good day

Bad start when staff screwed up starting times and were unwilling to admit and correct. Pace of play would have been better if staff had corrected their error. Otherwise course was in very good condition after overseeding.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Interesting place

Took my parents while here on vacation and they are in their 70’s and last played two years ago. Early morning tee off and they rented clubs. Guy at Pro desk was very helpful and accommodating. Club rental was very limited and low quality and didn’t have specific women’s club; mom is 5’1. The Pro’s: course is very flat and easy to navigate. Greens were in good shape with nice pin placements. Traps were well maintained and raked. Con’s: Cart path only.(understandably so) Fairways were in pretty poor shape in many areas. Lots of areas just needed some seed thrown down. Some fairways were recently mowed and had too many grass clippings in spots. All in all, it worked well for what we needed.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
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Commented on 11/20/2023

Thanks so much for the great review, greglloyd. We look forward to welcoming you back to our course soon. Thanks for choosing Arizona Golf Resort.

Played On
Reviews 4
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Cart path only

It was enjoyable playing, but cart path only made fir a long round.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
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Commented on 11/20/2023

MikeinAhwatukee, thank you for your kind words! We hope to see you again at the course very soon for another 5-star experience. Thanks for choosing Arizona Golf Resort.

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Reviews 3
1.0

Staff make it horrible, let alone conditions

The start of our round was chaos. We checked in, no one after that helped us. We had a 5+ hour round, dirt for “over seeded” fairways, what a joke. Worse than any year we have been here prior, it’s like the wild Wild West!!! Won’t be back for even $20 green fee.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Starter caused pace of play issues

Decent value, fairways and greens were in very nice condition, pace of play was poor due to starter held up our group and a few others for 10 minutes while he made us wait for a group late to first tee rather than releasing us and the following groups to play a making the late group wait for an opening. Add to that the late group had very poor golf etiquette and pace of play. Marshall did his best to try and get them moving but they only obliged until he had moved on

Took the shine off a great day for golf but I would give it another chance.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
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Commented on 11/16/2023

Hi, YYCRangeRat! Thank you so much for leaving us with your feedback. We value our customer experience, so your review is important to us. We will make note and we hope to see you back at Arizona Golf Resort!

Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
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Commented on 11/16/2023

Hello, Jeff1997596. We appreciate the review. You rated us 3-stars which means there is room to improve on your recent experience at Arizona Golf Resort. Let us know, in the comments, how and where you would like to see changes from the course. Thanks for the feedback!

Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Beginner
Plays Twice a year
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Lack of signage and dirt everywhere

We’ve never been to this course and thought we would give it a shot. The staff right away checked us in which was great but after that we were on our own. Nobody told us where to go which cart to get how to check in. Once we figured that out there was no starter in position to check in with so we sat at the first tee waiting. Once on the course the people in front of us took a tremendous amount of time hitting what appeared to be 3 shots ball position. We even slowed down to give them space and they just went slower. We weren’t even able to finish playing they were so slow. It’s nice that the course was reseeded but there is so much dirt being around the sides and mud if you hit your ball off the fairway good luck finding it and hitting it without getting into a muddy dirty mess. People living on the golf course were yelling at us and cursing at us even when our balls were no where near their houses and were just bugged because we were scaring their dogs with us walking around searching for our balls. There is a single sign that says no carts beyond this point but all the carts block it so when I drove 10 feet past it to our vehicle to put clubs away staff came out ready to murder us telling us there was a sign pointed to it and it was covered. Not a good experience

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 18
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Good shape for November

We have been playing this course for many years. It's in better shape, for early in the season, than it has been many other years.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
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Commented on 11/16/2023

Hello, etnent. Thanks so much for your review. We're so glad you enjoyed your round at Arizona Golf Resort. That's what we like to hear! We hope to see you again soon!

Played On
Reviews 3
1.0
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
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Commented on 11/16/2023

Hi, user5181agsjdkdkjsy. We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. We see you rated the course 1 star and are interested in learning what we can do to improve for your next visit. We take single-star feedback very seriously at our course. You are welcome to comment further or reach out to our team in the golf shop. We always appreciate the feedback. Thanks for choosing Arizona Golf Resort.

Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap Don't know
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Arizona Golf Course Greatly Improved

We have golfed this course many times over the past decade. This was our first time this season and we were very impressed. The fairways and greens were in the best condition we have seen with this course. An extremely enjoyable round of golf.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
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Commented on 11/13/2023

Thank you so much for the great review. We are glad you had an incredible time, and we hope to see you again soon! Thanks for choosing Arizona Golf Resort.

Played On
Reviews 4
1.0
First Time Playing

THEY CALL THIS OVERSEEDING, COURSE SUCKS

I cant believe they consider this open for play, the course is worse than it was last season, NOT WORTH $60! The workers at counter didn’t know what was going on and the outside staff looked homeless. Never coming back, place is worse than any area course and new management is a joke!

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Fair
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

Horrible management

Pretty sure his name was Eric but was telling his workers he was going on lunch to get high & take a nap & would be back later, never saw him again, thise boys who clean & take care of golf course need a raise they work hard all alone while there boss goes home on property to smoke & sleep! Won't come back here when workers are being treated awful by a boss or person in management!

Conditions Good
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Poor
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 33
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 10/30/2023

Hello and thank you for your 5-star rating! We're delighted you enjoyed your round. Please book another round with us soon, and thanks for choosing Arizona Golf Resort!

Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Playing On Dirt

This was my first time playing at this course and perhaps it is just this time of the season but I struggled to find grass to hit on anywhere I felt like I played on dirt the whole round. After our round we wanted to have a beer at 5:20 and the clubhouse was closed

Conditions Poor
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Fairways were completely dry with no grass left. In fairness reseeding is next week but the course should not have been open in this condition.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Pace Average
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