Makray Memorial Golf Club
About
Makray Memorial Golf Club (formerly known as Thunderbird Country Club) is a public course that has been open since 1962. To commemorate 40 years of great golf, the course was remodeled and revamped in 2002. The renovations improved its playability and also made it more challenging. The championship-caliber layout features strategically placed bunkers, including some Scottish-style sod-faced ones, and tricky water hazards on several holes. The hilly terrain offers both challenging elevation changes and scenic views. The golf course finishes with a long par 5 that plays across a canyon of berms to a narrow fairway. Further accuracy is needed to reach the well guarded green surrounded by high berms, a pot bunker to the left, and a deep, steep bunker to the right. In addition to the course, Makray Memorial G.C. boasts an extensive practice facility with 1 1/2 acres of grass teeing ground, two putting greens, and a short-game area.
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Golfer Photos
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Photo submitted by u445449310 on 06/02/2025
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Photo submitted by schoi4u on 05/24/2023
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Photo submitted by u6722019 on 06/03/2021
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Photo submitted by u314159922990 on 09/09/2020
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Photo submitted by u314159922990 on 09/09/2020
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#2 Par 4 Photo submitted by BryanTweed16 on 07/15/2015
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#4 Par 3 Photo submitted by BryanTweed16 on 07/15/2015
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#5 Par 4 Photo submitted by BryanTweed16 on 07/15/2015
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#9 Par 4 Photo submitted by BryanTweed16 on 07/15/2015
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#11 Par 4 Photo submitted by BryanTweed16 on 07/15/2015
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#18 Par 5 Photo submitted by BryanTweed16 on 07/15/2015
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Photo submitted by Fred1977382 on 07/06/2014
Golfer Reviews
Not worth it at all
First time playing here after hearing so many good things about how beautiful this course was and it just totally disappointed. I mean the course was just beat up and in terrible shape. Tee boxes are an absolute mess - slanted, painted, and chewed up. Their food was good and the staff were nice enough which is the only reason this isn’t a 1 star rating. Not worth the price at all
Nice but tough greens
Nice course but pin placement and speed of greens crazy for average golfers.
Excellent
We had a wonderful time. The icing on the cake was the food we had at the restaurant after we played. Just delicious-
Tricked-up Greens
Waited on almost every hole and did not see anyone from the course checking on pace of play. The layout isn't totally bad and I liked the pace of the greens, but some of them were impossible to put on a windy day. On #9, the pin was about 10 yards from the front, chipping or putting into the wind to within 2 feet of the cup rolled all the way back off the green. Other holes were not quite this bad, but on a day I thought I was putting pretty good, it was hard to stop the ball near the hole. Played with a different group one time last year and we all said the same thing and said we would not play there again. I decided I would try it 1 more time this year and have no desire to go back. I did not use any off course amenities.
On the plus side, it was a hot day and they supplied cold bottles of water on 4 holes and came around several times with other drinks and snacks.
The reason I would not recommend this course is mainly the greens.
Great value for the quality
This course plays like a pro round
Very challenging all skills
Improvement needed.
The rough was to long, I personally lost 7 golf balls, other people in my 4 sum lost several balls also. The gps told us we were behind. No one in back of us for at least one hole and we caught the group in front of us.
Cutting the rough to a reasonable height will speed up play considerably. It’s not just us, the guys in front of us had the same problem with the long rough. The only way we could find our golf ball was to almost step on it. The greens on the front were blotchy and some of the tee’s needed work like the silver 1st tee. For the money we paid we were disappointed.
Mistaken review
I accidentally posted a review for another course. Makray is awesome, love this course.
Stonewall is not worth the money
This course used to make you feel spoiled, the course was great, the range, practice area, the attention to detail. It seems that they are depending on their name to continue charging high rates, the attention to detail out on course was horrible, also, one of my pet peeves that courses are adopting is eliminating walking rates, completely just about greed, walkers are always faster than carts so they can’t use the pace of play argument, and drinking water on course, for what they charge they should have bottled water out in coolers, kind of like another local course, free of charge. I won’t be golfing here anymore this year.