Talking Stick Golf Club - Piipaash Course

My brother and law and I had an amazing time playing our first round of desert golf. Course was in awesome shape given December. Location close to the casino made for a great day.

My wife and I booked this course on golf now while staying at the resort. I booked it well in advance and had a 1 pm start time. We got set up and proceeded to 1st hole. Bob the ranger was very helpful in explaining the course rule and giving a few tips regarding the course. He was very friendly. We went off as a threesome, but quickly became bogged down between holes. after almost two hours and only making it through 5 holes, Bob came by an offered us a full raincheck for the round due to the fact that an 80 person outing had gone out immediately before us. We accepted as we figured the raincheck could pay for our round we had scheduled for two days later on the other course. We left the course and I proceeded to speak to the assistant manager(Pete I believe). He informed me that rain-checks are the responsibility of Golf Now and he couldn't or wouldn't do anything to help me come to a resolution. HE seemed very smug and not at all interested in helping. His suggestion to go out and finish round was a joke. Bob the ranger was very apologetic and asked if I would like to play with him early in the morning the next day( unfortunately we had plans already). I proceeded to cancel my Thursday tee time. I was not about to give this course more money after being treated so poorly. I believe Golf Now was going to at least refund the 2nd tee time. The bag guys and other staff seemed very attentive and friendly. My wife and I were very excited to stay and play at Talking stick, but the golf experience was very negative.

The course was in great shape. Very busy and the round was very slow. Didn’t finish last two holes.

Wouldn’t have expected a premium facility to not communicate it was a transition mess. Poor experience for Holiday Tradition because of no communication..

You're always hitting from grass here which is great after playing a dozen courses in the valley with tight fairways and desert runoffs. There's rough everywhere in case you miss the wide fairways.

This was my preferred side of the 2 tracks since there's doglegs and water comes into play on a few holes. If you enjoy hitting driver off the tee and don't have the best control with the driver, play here. 11 was a fun hole - it's a dogleg left with water running along the entire left side. 18 was a fun approach to a tight green with bunkers on the left and water on the right. There are deep bunkers on the sides of the greens of a few par 3's.

Sandwich house at the turn was great, really diverse menu instead of just hot dogs, but I didn't see any signs up on hole 8 or 9 to call in orders, might have been more of an after-round thing. The range before the round was grass not turf.

Staff everywhere was friendly and helpful. My group had slow golfers and we wound up 2 holes behind the group ahead of us at the turn, I informed the ranger of the situation at the turn and asked if we could split off into a twosome which he allowed. We were able to complete the back 9 in under 90 minutes as a result. Thank you.

Golf course would have given us our money back but said we had to go through GolfNow . I attempted to call GolfNow and was on hold for 1 hour and 25 minutes with no answer at all.

Not happy about this customer service.

First time playing at Talking Stick. Nice course in great shape with consistent greens.

Construction on site so no clubhouse. No GPS on carts which at this price point is ridiculous. Course was in excellent condition as was pace of play.

This is a friendly course with wide fairways and forgiving rough. Entrance and parking lots are still under Cindy but no real issues

Overall 7out of 10.