Hillcrest Golf Club at Sun City West
About
Hillcrest Golf Club possesses a championship length course that offers a great variety of game options with five sets of tees. The course has a traditional design that features open fairways lined with trees, which put a premium on straight shots. The greens vary greatly with some that are relatively flat and medium sized and others that are quite large and dramatically sloped or multi-tiered. In addition to several sand bunkers, water hazards in the forms of lakes and ponds come into play. The signature hole is the par-5 13th, which has been touted by the Phoenix Gazette as being on of the best holes in the state. Hillcrest Golf Club not only has a dogleg around a lake, the hole requires an approach shot uphill to a green that is guarded by eight bunkers.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 72 | 7002 yards | 72.7 | 126 |
| Blue | 72 | 6574 yards | 70.3 | 123 |
| White | 72 | 6381 yards | 69.1 | 116 |
| White (W) | 72 | 6381 yards | 75.0 | 126 |
| Gold (W) | 72 | 5864 yards | 67.3 | 113 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 5512 yards | 70.7 | 120 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 72.2/125 | 371 | 354 | 203 | 547 | 425 | 368 | 534 | 151 | 327 | 3280 | 495 | 374 | 343 | 518 | 208 | 393 | 425 | 258 | 456 | 3470 | 6750 |
| Blue M: 70.5/119 | 352 | 338 | 189 | 532 | 411 | 359 | 518 | 140 | 321 | 3160 | 480 | 361 | 333 | 505 | 191 | 355 | 411 | 229 | 439 | 3304 | 6464 |
| White M: 68.8/114 W: 75.1/124 | 333 | 323 | 175 | 516 | 397 | 350 | 502 | 129 | 315 | 3040 | 475 | 348 | 322 | 492 | 174 | 334 | 396 | 214 | 422 | 3177 | 6217 |
| Gold M: 67.1/112 W: 73.1/120 | 314 | 307 | 161 | 501 | 294 | 340 | 486 | 117 | 309 | 2829 | 461 | 335 | 312 | 479 | 157 | 313 | 382 | 199 | 405 | 3043 | 5872 |
| Red M: 65.3/110 W: 70.5/119 | 295 | 292 | 147 | 485 | 288 | 331 | 470 | 106 | 305 | 2719 | 446 | 292 | 301 | 424 | 139 | 291 | 363 | 184 | 355 | 2795 | 5514 |
| Handicap | 17 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 18 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 4 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 11 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 4 |
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Reviewer Photos
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Photo submitted by GogolfJG on 02/19/2024
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Photo submitted by GogolfJG on 02/19/2024
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Photo submitted by GogolfJG on 02/19/2024
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Photo submitted by u000004961551 on 02/27/2023
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Photo submitted by docuwize on 12/29/2022
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Fun Day with new Golf Buddies!! Photo submitted by Graybeard1440 on 12/03/2022
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Photo submitted by wwjd12 on 07/10/2022
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Photo submitted by u416417810 on 05/03/2022
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Photo submitted by Keith9843006 on 02/27/2022
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Beautiful par 3 hole Photo submitted by GolfingGemini on 11/10/2021
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Photo submitted by u284945905 on 05/01/2021
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Photo submitted by George7004813 on 05/01/2021
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Photo submitted by Douglas1964228 on 03/14/2021
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Photo submitted by Rogueballardite on 01/11/2021
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Photo submitted by holtrod1 on 12/06/2020
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Downhill Par 3 Photo submitted by AZKoehn on 04/29/2020
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Photo submitted by AZKoehn on 04/28/2020
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Spectacular resort setting design. Photo submitted by AZKoehn on 04/28/2020
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Great Layout - lots of challenging, interesting holes. Photo submitted by AZKoehn on 04/28/2020
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Photo submitted by bknigh on 05/23/2019
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Photo submitted by SASandLLS on 12/16/2017
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Photo submitted by SASandLLS on 12/16/2017
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Photo submitted by SASandLLS on 12/16/2017
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Loved these palms behind one of the greens. Photo submitted by gailmaher on 03/18/2013
Water hazards
Hole 4 and beyond beware of the water hazards. If you keep out of the water you can put together a nice score for a 20 or higher handicap player.
I like playing this course.
course needs work, as usual. Would be a very nice course if they would take care of it. Greens are tough.
Too slow
We had a 7:10 AM teatime and expected a good pace. The group in front of us was at least three holes behind. And the course Marshall is nothing. Way too slow for the third group out. Otherwise, the course is fine.
Beautiful challenging course, serious potential
Loved the layout of this course. Had some interesting challenges on every hole. Grounds could have been in better condition, maps on each tee box would be helpful. Carts were awesome
Your Golfing
Yes your golfing, this course is a little hidden gem as it challenges your game with hitting good tee shot as if you don’t your creating obstacles that will add strokes. FIR are fairly easy as this course plays short so if you a long hitter blue I’d the way to go…some of the greens are drivable even from the blue. Good water features and friendly staff. Second time playing and will visit again as a secondary choice when needed.
Fall Post Reseeding Review
Wonderful friendly staff. Played early afternoon on a very busy day, ready for 4 1/2 hr round. Well maintained practice area. Good value for this time of the year. Beautiful views from the back nine.
Impressed by course tee time management with the placement of a starter at the first tee box. Although “cart path only”, the rough on this course, play moved at a good pace. The back nine still has some wet and mud areas from the last storms and large patches of grass clippings. Definitely would play again in November when regular play resumes.
Reseeding too early
All courses try to be the first to reseed so they can optimize there revenues,
Cart part only, more dirt than grass!
Greens so slow you need a driver instead of a Putter.maybe 7 or 8 on the stent.
Great practice facility
I’ve played this course two times now. The course is always in pretty decent condition right now. They are cartpath only because of seating which is normal for the season so greens are super slow and fairway is like hitting in the first cut on all great golf course helps you dial-in on your irons as if you hit a bad first shot, you can always recover nicely. I would say this course is pretty forgiving with minimal at a balance, even with the water features they don’t come to play as a threat. Unless you’re like me and try to go for things you know you shouldn’t be doing.
Just opened from Overseeding
I enjoy the layout, but conditions were still recovering from the overseed.
The fairways were decent, but no carts on fairways, so lots of walking.
Greens were long and bumpy, untouched from overseed, and very slow! So slow it was hard to adjust.
I know the course will improves as everything has a chance to grow, so might be well to wait 2-3 weeks, let them start cutting the greens.
Great course for your money
4 of us played and we all enjoyed our game. The staff are lovely. This isn’t a great time to review course conditions ( reseeding) but we found it the course very playable and rough only carts wasn’t a big inconvenience.
Golf course was rough
To start off, the staff at the clubhouse was amazing, but after that nothing else was. During our play, we were constantly having to avoid the green’s keepers. They were constantly around the greens that we were playing on which made it hard to play without avoiding them. They wouldn’t move and were mowing around the greens that we were putting on. We felt that we were an inconvenience to them. The fairways and greens were very rough. Not a great time.
Course was in terrible condition for a $50 tee time
Hit the fairway to show up on hard panned dirt, bunkers were hard panned or mud, ball marks all over the greens. Greens rolled terribly
Slow greens
Great time playing with friends greens were slow kinda fuzzy Great staff nice course.
Nice Course
It's a nice course though I was a little surprised that playing on Labor Day there was no "Drink Cart" available on the course for the day, nor was there any cold water anywhere on the course. Little disappointed for sure.
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