Pine at McCormick Ranch Golf Club
About
The Pine Course at the McCormick Ranch Golf Club offers mature pines, in an appropriate contrast to its sibling golf course, the Pine Course, and is also narrower than the other golf course. What they have in common include the facts that Desmond Muirhead designed both of them and they both date back to 1972; recent renovations have also given both golf courses new greens, sand traps and bridges.
The Pine at McCormick Ranch Golf Club measures 7,187 yards, kicking off on a 398-yard par 4 that requires tee shot toward the fairway's center, leaving golfers a mid- to short-iron from the green, which slopes narrowly. Things get long by the fourth hole, one of four par-5 holes that come in at over 500 yards; this one, for example, makes you place your drive well toward right-center if you want to shoot for it in two. Close out the round of golf on the 18th hole, another long one, at 517 yards from the blue tees, and a tight hole to drive that will, thankfully, provide your last test for the day.
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Golfer Photos
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Photo submitted by 0BsYNvSsDf9olqVyLv61 on 06/21/2026
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Photo submitted by u314164734733 on 06/21/2026
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Photo submitted by u314164734733 on 06/21/2026
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Course photos Photo submitted by TylerAtwell on 04/06/2026
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Photo submitted by Eleazar90 on 01/24/2026
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Photo submitted by RKantosky on 10/10/2025
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Photo submitted by Zrichey42 on 04/20/2025
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Photo submitted by CarlosEsquivelB on 10/06/2024
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Photo submitted by GKing77098 on 03/20/2024
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Photo submitted by GKing77098 on 03/20/2024
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Poor fairways Photo submitted by u314159805085 on 01/20/2024
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Photo submitted by tyl3r on 11/02/2023
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Photo submitted by Brice1428038 on 04/05/2023
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Photo submitted by kharlicker on 02/28/2023
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Photo submitted by u000008176810 on 03/24/2022
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Photo submitted by u000008176810 on 03/24/2022
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Photo submitted by u000008176810 on 03/24/2022
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Photo submitted by robertdale on 01/11/2022
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#2 Pine Photo submitted by mriemer01 on 12/15/2021
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Photo submitted by mriemer01 on 12/15/2021
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Photo submitted by Rttrasamar on 12/28/2019
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Typical Fairway Photo submitted by bobesson629 on 02/03/2016
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Photo submitted by marcouxl on 04/16/2014
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Photo submitted by u000006818327 on 03/18/2014
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Photo submitted by u000006818327 on 03/18/2014
Golfer Reviews
Truly enjoyable
Totally satisfied with my round. The course is in great shape from tee to green. The design is great for tourists in that while there are some challenges it is relatively well explained by the diagrams on the card and the GPS. It is a course where good shots are rewarded rather than punished by some "hidden" trap or lake that only the locals know about. I really like the tee options which give nice flexibility for different skill levels. I rented clubs and the Pings supplied were a very pleasant surprise.
Fun day
The course was in good condition following the overseed. We didn’t have to wait.
Bring your own sand
Best to play elsewhere. No sand in the bunkers, (Pine Course) but there was a mountain of sand between the greens and tees on the back nine. How about putting some in the bunkers?? Told the course staff and pro shop personnel who did not even care.
Golf carts are antiquated. Corners of seats appeared to be chewed off. Was told they were getting new carts tomorrow. Hotdogs were overpriced. Better to bring your own from Costco. The criminal birds will steal your food from the golf carts.
Plainly disinterested in the golfers' experience
We play both McCormick Ranch tracks a couple times a year but today's round on the Pine Course was just poor. Waited on every tee box and just about every fairway. Winter Rye is decent in most places but there were at least 100 ball marks on every single green. This is a decision by the maintenance staff to not have the pin setter each morning choose a decent area for that day's pin AND fix a few dozen ball marks from the lazy players. Today several of the holes had plainly not even been moved. Sand traps haven't seen a machine in weeks--CONCRETE is softer. Sad. Oh and the course was jammed so why do anything, right?
Ok
This course was about what I expected. Typical resort course. Greens on the back side in much better shape than the front.
Fall trip
Course in good condition but not as nice as expected. Lot of wet spots from over watering. Staff announcing tee times over PA system but never announced mine. Poor signage, had to ask grounds keeper where the first tee box was located..Sign at #1 tee box said cart path only but employee said that was for morning tee times only.
First time around
The Pine course was just coming out of overseed and was cart path only. Even so, we played in just under 4 hours. Played as a twosome but played behind a couple of foursomes and a threesome.
Good layout with reasonably wide fairways. Some water on the course but not a lot.
Greens were slow as expected. Sign in the proshop stated stimping at 9. They rolled reasonably well but should be better after overseed is complete. They were receptive but not soft. Ball marks were not big divots but could be seen.
Bunkers had little to no sand in them and many had puddles. Went to rake one after a shot out of there and could hardly see my foot prints.
Front 9 was smelly - swamp smell. Back 9 was great. Food cart drove up on us a few times teeing off - Girl was frazzled about tournament on other course and kept saying she was late. Hopefully course will be better in a few weeks.
Skip McCormick Ranch
I was very excited to play this course. I am a Member of a private club, and play this course six to seven times a year while my course is closed for overseeding.
HOWEVER, the course had been closed for two weeks for overseeding. Yet when my group got on the course we could not see any rye grass. All we saw was the bermuda grass trying to re-establish itself. the greens were OK but the tee boxes and fairways were NOT.
Ain’t what she used to be
Played the Pine Course 12 years ago. Since then, has it gone downhill. Carts as old as the hills. Clubhouse and facilitiies in desperate need for updating and course in so so condition. Greens were acceptable, but fairways had tons of burn out spots. No better than many of the much lower price level Sun City Courses. For such a great in town location, these McCormick Ranch courses need new management and better greens keepers.