Arizona Biltmore Golf Club - Links Course

I'm sure the course USED to be lovely but it is no longer the course in the photos. Combine that with waiting several minutes on each and every hole, and you'll understand my less than positive review...

This course is over rated. I’ve played nicer courses for half the price ! I’ll never be back any time of year !!!

This was our first time playing the Links course at the Arizona Biltmore.

The location is good. The holes are mixed, some good and others not. The corse shape is only ok. The greens are decent but the fairways are mixed.

I play d all the way back. A reasonable challenge. My wife played almost all the way up. Good challenge for her as well.

There are a few holes with good views and others with apartment / condo views only.

We enjoyed the bar and lunch.

I doubt I will play the course Rae again.

Cart staff provided no assistance to load clubs, direction for first tee, starter or end of round. Course in good shape. I found greens to be small and narrow compared to other local courses. Overall a fair layout, but played other courses I found to be better and a better value.

This course is in a great location - very centrally located. The layout is pretty good- they are severely space limited so you can't complain too much. There's not a lot of "shot value" here- the bunkering is very typical, and you just hit driver on the majority of holes.

The service is beyond horrible. When you arrive, there's no one to take your clubs- you have to carry then about 100 yards to the cart staging area. Once there, you see about 10 young guys in uniform talking, laughing, and waiting for people to return carts so they can spend 30 seconds cleaning the clubs for (hopefully) a large tip. They do not help with anything ... I heard another visitor complaining "aren't you guys going to help me at all?". Sad.

The small buckets of range balls are $10, and they have mats, though there is some grass that they may have open from time to time. Given the cost of the golf, balls should really be free, IMHO.

They had ZERO water on the course, and don't give you any water bottles at any time. There are drink carts, but the pricing is high- bottles of powerade are $4.

Our round was 5.5 hours, as there are no rangers trying to keep things moving. I think every employee was in the golf shop or hawking tips in the staging area...

Overall it's a pretty decent golf course, but just realize the customer service is beyond horrible, and you're going to have to fend for yourself. It's a bit surprising to see this, as the Biltmore was at one point the premier resort name in Arizona.

I have reviewed this course before. You will find the front 9 holes fairly straight forward, although there is a blind -approach par 3 that you do not see every day. But the front 9 is all prelude to the back 9 that moves into foothill terrain and some fairly interesting holes. The fairways undulate and there are multiple elevated tees and/or greens you will navigate. A fun par 3 with a 100+ yard drop from an elevated tee caps off the adventure. The fairways were a bit stressed from the heat though very playable. The greens were all running slow on this outing.. I am guessing that they were being grown out from being punched and sanded a few weeks bak.

This is a great course In peak season but it was really beat up when I played yesterday on the links course.

I love the links course however today was a free for all out there and it was very disappointing. I don’t know if it’s the heat and not a lot of people out there but this group that was not ahead of me on the front 9 was so obnoxious that I quit by 12. They must have skipped over and after waiting around, replaying holes (no one behind me) I finally just gave up. The staff did nothing it seemed as though they just didn’t care.

The links course is a short but fun course. I have enjoyed playing it for years.

The layout is good, and the bunkers were in excellent condition.

The grass from tee to green was patchy. The pin placement was not thought out as it was right in the middle of terrible patches occasionally.

The range is $10 to hit off of mats. After seeing a group of 4 adults hitting off of the grass, a lone teen joined them. The range attendant ignored the adults as they left but asked the teen if he knew how to read. No reason to be rude.

They take the appearance of covid protections seriously but have no problem forcing strangers to share carts with dozens available.

Finally, the halfway house reeks of propane. I felt bad for the young lady that had to work in there.

Leaving this review on a good note, Hailey on the beverage cart was great!

Almost impossible to play this course for a real score, biltmore has always had greens but today was a new level of bad, some greens have fairway length grass mixed in with dead spots and weeds, putting your ball is like pulling the lever on a pinball machine, just guess which way it’s going to bounce.