San Tan Highlands

Despite what the folks at Johnson Ranch think, this is not TPC Sawgrass.

You used to be able to play this course for $25, which felt appropriate for the staff quality, greens and fairways, but they’re charging around $80 these days. What’s changed besides the price? Not much. The Marshalls still berate you and follow you around the course, looking for an opportunity to flex the minuscule amount of power they have. There’s still no water on the course. The greens are inconsistent and poorly managed. The starters are rude and act like you’re playing at an exclusive country club. I could go on.

This used to be an excellent course, with room for beginners and veterans. They’ve priced out the beginners and don’t offer a product good enough for the veterans.

My advice? Next time you get to Johnson Ranch, get back in your car and drive up the road to Poston Butte, or back to Power Ranch. You’ll have a better experience and save yourself a few bucks.

This place used to be extremely unfriendly. I’m a single handicap golfer and Marshalls used to treat you like you were up to no good on their course. They seem to have gotten the message and cooled down a lot. Back nine is still gorgeous.

Not a big fan of fake grass but the new tee on #11 is a vast improvement to the poor real grass tee that was always divoted to destruction.Hope it can take the abuse! Course will be great soon.

I think the staff is local neighborhood volunteers. Nobody wants to take accountability. Ice machine broken 🤷🏻‍♂️ three locals allowed to cut in front of us on ten tee box 🤷🏻‍♂️ no help at bag drop or cart return 🤷🏻‍♂️ Local neighborhood course wanting to attract customers by changing name. Need to change mindset of volunteers.

Course is coming along great after overseeding. Need to see more off the beverage cart, only seen it once in 18 holes.

I love this course, have been playing here for years. I think it’s over priced for a round. I also think the drinks are way over priced.

After overseed and cart path only but in great shape! Not terribly busy (cpo does that) so the place was great.

I'd like to come back and play when it is not cart path only and the course is back to normal conditions after overseeding. The only suggestion I would make is to put more trash cans on the front nine and put ball washers at each hole. Other than that the course is very nice and worth the money.

Best fairway and greens conditions I’ve ever seen. Course looked better then ever. Greens were slow but only because they just over seeded and haven’t cut them yet. New carts are better than the old ones. Still not sure why they don’t have ball cleaners on the carts or on any holes. The pace was horrific. We were behind the Cressey group and they think they can go as slow as they want. It was maddening.

Showed up 45 minutes early for my tee time to hit the driving range before. Practice green and driving range were both closed and nothing is stated on Golf Now about this.. Greens are extremely slow due to overseed and whole course was cart path only. Pace of play was 4 hrs 15 minutes even on a weekday late morning/afternoon tee time. Love this course layout but the conditions/amenities aren’t good right now. I will wait a few weeks to come back.

It was hot and no beverage cart was out and no water was offered, dissapointed

Course was in good condition coming off overseed. Greens were inconsistent but will get better. No bathroom code issued created a little frustration. The fact that no carts on the course rather than 90 degree entrance made the day long. Overall course played well , other than long delay at the turn.