Ahwatukee Country Club

Invited my friend to go hack it out as it was both of our first times at that course. We're not the best but certainly able to keep pace. We had a blast working on our approaches as the layout was decent. The carts had GPS and scorekeeping which made it easy to keep track of how bad we were doing. Greens we in great shape, sand is typical Arizona hard dirt, and the drinks made up for our crappy scores. Would golf again.

Worst course I’ve played all year, and I’ve played here many times in the past. This was the worst I’ve seen it and that’s saying something. Don’t bother unless the round is $10 or less.

Played ok. Course had some massive repair going on across the entire front and back sides. A few balls I hit ended up in the middle of the fairway but were not findable due to massive puddling and standing water. I have played here multiple times and this was the poorest conditions yet. Hoping something turns around soon for course maintaining because the club is nice and so are the employees.

Great course, it’s improving a lot. Staff is always friendly and happy to help. Greens have been very good .

Me and my brother and all our friends play every Monday when we can and we love the people and the course.

First, be prepared for tons of ongoing course maintenance. Since it is summer and it has to be done at some time, I’m okay with that at the price. Greens can be really nice, as are most of the bunkers. Tee boxes and fairways usually suck but especially right now. My buddy and I actually like some of the challenges this course provides on its best day, so it sucks to write this.

What I am not okay with is the poor pace of play. We were scheduled for 8:48AM just for the 8:40AM group to be teeing off 10 minutes late. 8:40am group was held up by group in front of them. We saw the 8:40 turn around and leave after 12 holes. My group left after hole 17. 5 hour pace for a course as simple as this one is inexcusable. There needs to be a starter at the clubhouse or hole 1, and / or a ranger who is periodically checking groups for pace. Having neither causes disasters like yesterday.

Water stations were empty by 10AM and never refilled. Bathrooms were wack to say the least. No beverage cart.

Employees behave in a manner that is deplorable, aside from maybe a couple of the younger clubhouse attendees. Cart staff turned their shoulder when I told them pace took 5 hours.

There was / is nothing redeeming about this course. Pace of play was 5+ hours. They don’t have a starter so it is a free-for-all off the first tee. Fairways were muddy or dirt. Tee boxes are chopped up. Some holes didn’t have forward (red) tee boxes marked. First set of bathrooms had to light so we left the door open. Second set of bathrooms - one was out of order and the one operating bathroom has no toilet paper. There was no beverage cart service. It was terrible. Will never golf this course again.

Dump trucks unloading. Lots of noise. Many places torn up. More weeds than grass.

I think this course MIGHT even be worse than kokopelie, and things don't get much worse than that .

The entire course is under construction. There wasn’t a single hole where there wasn’t some kind of distraction. I probably counted at least 15 front loaders or some type of heavy machinery, dump truck etc. I literally teed off on 17 in between a dump truck and a frontloader you think they would stop working while you’re teeing off but nope. I’m surprised the workers haven’t been hit by a golf ball because they don’t even acknowledge that there is someone playing golf there.We were two of the few people on the course which is why pace of play was OK. I understand they’re trying to improve the course but they’re charging $15 more than courses nearby. At least drop your prices if you’re going to provide a garbage golf course.

The greens are fine but there is no grass in the fairways, only dirt and weeds.

Pros: The greens (as long as you were not on the edge that was overgrown with weeds), were in really great shape. Putting was the most fun part of this course

Cons: Four of the holes has sprinklers going off in the middle of the fairway throughout our time playing the holes.

Fairways? No... Mudways would be more fitting.

Mud dunes littered alongside the greens and tee boxes

The tee boxes! Many looked like a mine had gone off - plus they are far from flat: choose your tee shot lie wisely. You either have a below your feet or above your feet lie off the tees.

Back to the fairways - standing water made it very swampy. However, most of the fairways were overgrown with weeds which was a preferrable lie compared to the lack of grass in the fairway at all.

Overgrown weeds sometimes made tee shots that landed in the fairway impossible to find.

Standing water in all sand traps making it muddy clay.

All that being said, my group had a fun time - we just adjusted some rules: If you land in a sand trap, you get free relief no further to the hole (If they cannot upkeep the fairways, the sand traps are certainly not kept up either); If you land your shot in the fairway and it lands in swampy mud water, you get free relief onto a preferrable lie no closer to the hole; If you land next to a sprinkler located in the middle of the fairway, you get free relief no close to the hole.

Although this 18-hole-round was $37ea, we all feel that we overpaid for this course in its current state

Other than the greens, which were in pretty good shape, this course doesn’t look like it is ever watered. Most fairways had no grass on them, and there were dirt areas where the rough should be.

Despite the conditions, it was packed and we waited on all but about 10 shots the entire round.