Golden Hills Golf Club
About
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.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 72 | 6601 yards | 70.8 | 120 |
| White (W) | 72 | 6211 yards | 75.2 | 125 |
| White | 72 | 6211 yards | 69.0 | 116 |
| Gold | 72 | 5874 yards | 66.6 | 112 |
| Gold (W) | 72 | 5874 yards | 71.8 | 122 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 5123 yards | 68.8 | 116 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue M: 70.8/120 | 502 | 222 | 445 | 231 | 391 | 385 | 488 | 178 | 425 | 3267 | 488 | 210 | 496 | 384 | 177 | 437 | 277 | 409 | 531 | 3409 | 6676 |
| White M: 69.0/116 W: 74.4/123 | 478 | 206 | 436 | 189 | 372 | 371 | 452 | 159 | 393 | 3056 | 458 | 185 | 479 | 370 | 150 | 422 | 229 | 396 | 466 | 3155 | 6211 |
| Yellow M: 66.6/112 W: 71.6/117 | 458 | 186 | 416 | 147 | 359 | 362 | 421 | 152 | 381 | 2882 | 436 | 172 | 469 | 359 | 136 | 373 | 212 | 383 | 452 | 2992 | 5874 |
| Red M: 64.2/107 W: 68.4/112 | 416 | 141 | 316 | 104 | 332 | 304 | 418 | 115 | 333 | 2479 | 417 | 128 | 428 | 304 | 88 | 331 | 203 | 340 | 405 | 2644 | 5123 |
| Handicap | 3 | 15 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 14 | |||
| Par | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 35 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 37 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 3 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 14 | 8 | 10 |
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Photo submitted by GNDflFMrctVgc8ORQwxV on 08/21/2025
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Photo submitted by GNDflFMrctVgc8ORQwxV on 08/21/2025
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Ladies tee box hole 3 Photo submitted by u314163678687 on 01/05/2025
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Photo submitted by ma11rats on 08/26/2024
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Fairway #1 Photo submitted by golfzlf on 06/25/2024
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Dry Fairway. Photo submitted by golfzlf on 05/21/2024
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Photo submitted by clayzernich on 01/16/2024
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Photo submitted by fabcar14 on 01/10/2024
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Photo submitted by u370058614 on 09/17/2023
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Fairways Photo submitted by TommyKrepelka on 07/15/2023
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Fairways Photo submitted by TommyKrepelka on 07/15/2023
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Photo submitted by u314163764655 on 03/18/2023
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Photo submitted by u314163764655 on 03/18/2023
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Photo submitted by gclesniak on 02/24/2023
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Photo submitted by Chuckbomb1 on 09/06/2022
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Photo submitted by u000001215595 on 07/11/2022
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Photo submitted by u000003370075 on 11/15/2021
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Jennifer smacking the ball down fairway! Photo submitted by u5280042 on 07/19/2021
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Photo submitted by prepson18 on 10/28/2020
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Photo submitted by iypKz1EpPFFeRzyTqqhU on 05/29/2019
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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.
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.
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Cart path only
It was enjoyable playing, but cart path only made fir a long round.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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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.
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.
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!
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!
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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
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.
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