Camelback Golf Club - Ambiente Course

Played the ambiant and it was not as expected. Several fairways had a lot of debris. Trash in the alleys. Water was hard to come by across the course. Staff were really friendly however.

The Ambiente course at Camelback Golf Club is one of my favorites in Scottsdale. The greens are some of the best in the valley and are well guarded by deep traps that actually have good sand in them (Arizona traps are notoriously poor). The course is a links layout which is very unique to central Arizona and is difficult but fair. The staff are friendly and helpful.

I've played multiple times and each time I have been totally pleased with the course condition and amenities. Fairways and greens were in great shape. Don't hit the ball in the links grasses, you'll never find your ball!

Very nice course and staff. Glad they have shorter tee boxes for short hitters, it made the day fun, but still a challenging course that requires good shots.

I would play here again.

All staff were excellent, greens in good condition.. A two-some played in 3 hours. Lots of traps. Several tees to select from to match length. Food after golf was also good. A nice golfing experience.

I love Ambiente. Great layout, plenty challenging, great condition, even late summer.

My issues. Fairways and Tee boxes not mown. I love the course, and it's worth it to me, but $99 in the summer is a lot. That would be fine I guess, but mow the fairways and tee boxes if you're going to charge top dollar. Also, the rates are kind of fluid depending in where and when you book.

This is as close to links-style golf as you get in the desert. The course has all the features--the fescu, the bunkers, the quick greens, etc. Apart from the heat (111 F) melting my game, this is a top tier course to play.

Having golfed the valley of the sun during the summer months for the past 15 years, it is amazing the camelback staff keeps consistent high level golf despite little of no help from the monsoon in 2019.

Very challenging course and above average conditions this time of year. Bottom line, you gotta hit the shots or you will be playing from the sand, which is the main course defense. Deep traps make errant players take their medicine, wedge out to get back in play. In addition deep rough forces additional accuracy, deep as in an “easy lost ball”. This isnt a grip and rip tract, that notion is completely lost after the first couple holes and all players find themselves forced to execute carefully planned shots. Great fun for competing, I played with my sons and we enjoyed the fact that no lead was safe, and could turnaround completely at any given hole. Fun challenging tract.

Hositality and friendliness of staff and crew, second to none. Marriot should be proud.

It wasn’t 105 degrees playing at high noon. Not for the faint of heart But a course that charges upwards of $200 in season (because they can) is worthy of a look this time of year. The course, while not taking a huge footprint has really interesting holes and presents a nice challenge

Was looking forward to playing this high end course, but was disappointed. Course was so dry that fairway grass actually crunched when you walked on it! There was little or no grass around greens.

First time played so as a single I was taking my time discovering the layout and planning my shots and yet I only had one single go through me and never caught the group ahead of me, seemed like I owned the place on a 115* afternoon between 12 and 4. Fairways are pretty spacious. Greens had been punched long enough ago that they had filled in pretty nicely and putted true. Sand was firm not fluffy. The usual sparse, dry, hard spots on any areas of slope where water doesn't soak in like any course this time of year. The pro shop let me demo a 3hybrid at no charge and the beverage cart gal was friendly and informative. I enjoyed the course immensely and will play again soon.

Ambiente at Camelback resort has a lot of promise but current conditions are very bad. VERY bad. Fairways are barely acceptable but all areas saround greens are in horrible condition. the sand traps are very inconsistent--some are ok but many others have a concrete type feel just below surface so that there is no way to play ball out in a traditional manner.

Still some work that needs to be done in some burned out fringe areas and fairways but they are addressing it. Greens were punched about a month ago and are looking great! Only a few bumpy areas. Overall rolled great! They will only get faster and smoother in the next week or so!

This is a great course and I love playing it. But, the conditions today were not up to their normal standard. Lots of tight lies in the fairway. A number of bare/thin spots on the fairways and the greens still haven’t recovered from aeration. They rolled pretty good but a little bumpy Bunkers in great shape, they have made significant improvements in last couple of years.

Pace of play was great, less than four hours.

Two of us played Ambiente in two hours fifty minutes. Not racing in the least. Leisurely, in fact. Demonstrates just how slowly most people play.

Always love playing this course. Course was unusually in not good shape even with the overseed process. Normally even throughout the process the course is very playable. Greens were bumpy but mostly rolled true. Just slower. Rest of the course was in decent shape. In a couple weeks the course will be fantastic again. Always love playing Ambiente. Great test of skill from all tee boxes.

Course was in rough shape. Grass growing into perimeter of ALL sand traps and some large traps with 1 rake, give appearance that course conditions are more attributable to neglect, than weather conditions.

There are many golf options available in the Scottsdale/Phoenix area. This was definitely NOT worth $100 to play!

the course plugged the greens two weeks ago but are still very bumpy. hard to keep putts on line