Papago Golf Club

Enjoyed playing for the first time. Friendly layout that was friendly to my wife. Definitely will come back

Started out early in the morning. Great staff. Directed me around the facility and helped out with anything I needed. Overall, driving range is great. The pace of play early in the morning is amazing. Played under 4 hours easily. I only had two disappointments. One, was the lack of direction to the next hole. This was caused by the scarcity of car path pavement. There was only 4 holes I remembered that had cart path roads. Lastly, the greens were in bad condition. I don’t know if they were dealing with some sort of disease from tournament play but they were are hard to role the ball. Price did not match the quality of the course

Good test of your golf game. Fun to play. ASU golf team's home course.

From the start I should have known our experience was going to make for a challenging day. We were met at the bag drop and were very abruptly told that the range was closed due to a wedding. I did not receive an e-mail telling me this was going to be the case that day, there was nothing on the Tee Off.com reservation system noting this limitation, nor was any other warning provided about this closure. Then after telling the starter and his staff our tee time he advised us to check-in and he would put our bags on a cart so it was ready when we came back out. Needless to say, that did not happen and I was forced to find a cart myself and load our bags. In fact, while we saw the starter riding around the clubhouse area on his cart he never assisted us again. We went to the first tee and started ourselves. Upon starting play, it did not take long for us to realize play was going to be slow and frustrating all day. There was no effort made to speed up play. Then when on course, we soon discovered the overly restrictive and maddening set-up of their GPS system on their carts. If you wandered 6-inches offline the system shut your cart down. At one point we needed to call the clubhouse to get assistance to restart our cart and when the attendant arrived he was rude and blamed us for not knowing how to fix our cart. When we finished our five-hour plus round, we drove by the driving range and saw no evidence that a wedding was going to occur or had occurred. The new clubhouse shows that this course is an $80 - $100 per round course, but your course conditions and the service of your staff barely makes this a $30 per round course. Much improvement still needed to bring this course to the elite level your rates suggest. ASU should be embarrassed that this is now their home course.

The sand traps are hard to figure out. I know I shouldn’t hit into them. The course is fair while challenging. I played it like 40 years ago. Way better than some of the private courses I’ve played. Good pro shop.

Pace of play was awful. But challenging yet fun course to play.

First time here on vacation. Course was in good not great shape. Bunkers were harder sand. First green was a little rough. Nice carts. GPS locked. Fairways were good but lots of unrepaired divots. Would play again.

They can not get tbe fairways back in shape, greens are ok, they can be better, orher near courses have mutch better fairways for almost haf on the cost..

Wednesday tee time was 12:06 PM. From the first hole, the GPS system continued to remind us that we were behind the pace of play. But we had to wait on most shots. Total time to complete the round was 4 hours and 45 minutes. The greens were very firm as evidenced by the lack of ball marks. But the sand in all bunkers needs to be replaced. It was almost impossible to properly play from the greenside bunkers. It appeared that only the fairways were being maintained, since most areas to the sides of the fairways (not the desert areas) were all dried out with many bare spots. The practice green had many bare spots and left a terrible first impression. We expected a much better experience since so much effort and money had been spent to remodel the course.

The greens were interesting to putt and in general the course is fun. The fairways were patchy with numerous bare spots. The pace of play was slow (4:45). The restrictions on the golf carts were annoying. The staff was friendly and helpful.

The entire staff here is fantastic. I wish the golf cars did not lock up while you look for balls that went of course. It takes up a lot of time.

But let me repeat, the entire staff here is FANTASTIC.