Hillcrest Golf Club at Sun City West

The fairways and tee boxes have improved. There is still a lot of hardpan out there, but the fairways are improving. You will still get these weird hardpan bounces towards the hazards for no apparent reason and there is no transition from fairway to dirt. The fairway just stops randomly and hardpan dirt takes over. The greens are still hard as a rock and the ball will bounce off or roll to the back. The putting surface was pretty smooth, but very fast. There are a LOT of dead trees throughout the property. These along with the overgrown trees need to be cleaned up or removed. The cart paths have huge pot holes, There are ruts crisscrossing the fairways. It looks like maybe they were putting in drainage or irrigation but poorly filled in the trenches afterwards. Pace of play was slow, very slow at first. We were on track for a 5 hour round. After the turn it Yo-Yo'd for awhile but finally sped up a bit. We finished at a little over 4 1/2 hours. The was no ranger/marshal to keep pace.

We had a good time playing this course, but it’s definitely not in the best shape. Anything off the fairway is dry, hard dirt and rocks. The sand traps aren’t really sand, but just dirt. The course is a decent layout, but the course conditions are a bit rough. Too expensive for the state it’s in.

We were trapped behind four older guys that started 30 minutes ahead of us. A normal four hour round was almost five. We waited 5 to ten minutes on 11 holes. No marshal. Saw him but he was parked on his phone. The group had at least three open holes ahead by the end of the day. Disappointed. 🤮

Great value for the money. A little crowded took over 5 hours to finish. Course was in decent shape..

The course is in decent shape and great for the price. Challenging course.

Tee box, Fairways and the greens were in great shape. We enjoy the hole round but the back 9 is or favorite

I played Hillcrest a couple of weeks ago and the fairways were a little thin. Just two weeks later and both the fairways and greens were in much better condition. The other players I was paired with were great! We had a lot of fun and we got done in less than 4 hours!

Overall a nice course, greens were good and the place of play was great!!

Only issue is the forward/red tee information on the card is very wrong.

States 5500 yards when it is only about 4700 (guessing)

Course was in terrible condition…hard to determine where carts were…this could be the best course in the area if money was spent getting it up to a respectable level…no doubt this course will fall to developers