Faldo at Wildfire Golf Club at Desert Ridge Resort

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Faldo Championship Course at the Wildfire Golf Club measures as long as 6,846 yards, depending on which tees you're shooting from, and lies on 174 acres and features some differences from the average desert-themed golf courses. Faldo offers abundant fairways, big bentgrass greens and tee boxes, as well as the golf course's neighboring mountains, century-old saguaro cacti and 106 sand bunkers - which remind golfers of Aussie sand-belt golf courses, which gives it a magnificent locale for golfers.
Wildfire Golf Club is much-feted: When the Faldo Championship Course opened, the Arizona Republic selected hole No. 2 among the valley's 18 best. The golf course received recognition among the 2006 Travel & Leisure Golf's "World's Best Golf Resorts" for family getaways and in the 2006 Conde Nast Traveler rundown of the "Top 100 Golf Resorts in North America." These are in addition to the Gold Tee Award from Meetings & Conventions Magazine.
Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
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Tournament | 71 | 6846 yards | 72.3 | 132 |
Champinoship | 71 | 6467 yards | 70.5 | 126 |
Championship (W) | 71 | 6467 yards | 76.9 | 132 |
Regular | 71 | 6016 yards | 67.7 | 118 |
Regular (W) | 71 | 6016 yards | 74.4 | 126 |
Forward | 71 | 5245 yards | 64.8 | 113 |
Forward (W) | 71 | 5245 yards | 70.0 | 116 |
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
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Black M: 72.2/132 | 411 | 408 | 164 | 452 | 389 | 350 | 185 | 341 | 534 | 3234 | 460 | 547 | 478 | 360 | 214 | 607 | 314 | 177 | 420 | 3577 | 6811 |
Blue M: 70.5/126 W: 76.9/132 | 395 | 402 | 155 | 413 | 380 | 341 | 175 | 323 | 497 | 3081 | 441 | 527 | 454 | 347 | 187 | 570 | 298 | 160 | 397 | 3381 | 6462 |
Blue/White M: 69.2/123 W: 75.3/128 | 395 | 350 | 155 | 398 | 380 | 341 | 167 | 323 | 497 | 3006 | 421 | 527 | 428 | 310 | 167 | 522 | 298 | 160 | 377 | 3210 | 6216 |
White M: 67.7/118 W: 74.4/126 | 375 | 350 | 135 | 398 | 360 | 315 | 167 | 293 | 477 | 2870 | 421 | 508 | 428 | 310 | 167 | 522 | 277 | 136 | 377 | 3146 | 6016 |
White/Red M: 65.4/115 W: 71.3/122 | 317 | 297 | 135 | 365 | 299 | 315 | 116 | 293 | 442 | 2579 | 390 | 459 | 363 | 251 | 123 | 485 | 277 | 136 | 330 | 2814 | 5393 |
Red M: 64.8/113 W: 70.0/116 | 317 | 297 | 89 | 365 | 299 | 287 | 116 | 268 | 442 | 2480 | 390 | 459 | 363 | 251 | 123 | 485 | 232 | 132 | 330 | 2765 | 5245 |
Handicap | 7 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 10 | |||
Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 35 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 71 |
Handicap (W) | 13 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 8 |
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Photo submitted by Duckslayer23 on 08/10/2024
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Photo submitted by seanmdavis on 08/20/2020
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Plenty of BUNKERS Folks ! Photo submitted by Marky3PuttzV on 03/17/2020
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Photo submitted by Stefano5396557 on 04/28/2019
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Great facilities Photo submitted by GREGCGOLFER on 07/30/2017
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Beautiful Desert scenery Photo submitted by GREGCGOLFER on 07/30/2017
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Photo submitted by mriemer01 on 02/13/2017
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Faldo Hole 4, Par 4 (birdie) Photo submitted by vrob008 on 08/18/2016
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Photo submitted by Dharmesh on 06/02/2013
Good layout
It’s a nice layout and pretty fair condition. The price seemed reasonable. I definitely feel like after playing it. I could score a lot lower takes some course knowledge.
Faldo course has an interesting design
Nice interesting golf course with no two holes that look alike. Fairways and greens were in fair condition. Disappointing was the bottom of the sand traps which were wet or very hard. The sand was very inconsistent. A fair value and worth playing.
Comedy of Errors
As a single, playing partners didn’t show up. Starter claimed group in front wouldn’t play with a single. Group in front said that was untrue. Stuck waiting behind the group as a single. Such a bummer because it is a solid course. Cannot recommend to others.
Great for the money.
Good deal great shape for summer time. Lots of bunkers, could use more sand in them.
Summer pricing is a steal!
The course was in great shape from Tee box to Green. Greens were the same speed the whole 18 and not some being fast or some slow like courses can be sometimes. They are a difficult read sometimes but that’s the fun challenge. This course makes you play smart and if you do you can shoot good scores here. I hit a PR the first time I played! Highly recommend
Great Course Layout
For a desert course it provides a nice variety of hole designs. The staff were great. We played at a time that few do in Phoenix this time of year so there wasn’t any pace of play issues. The tee boxes, rough, and greens were in great shape. On the front nine there were a number of spots on the fairways that had issues, dry or dead grass. I could see that the fairways were being worked on/aireated or something, I presume in an attempt to rectify the problem. Numerous times I chose to move my ball a number of yards away to find a decent patch of grass to hit off of. But overall, for the GolfNow price I paid it was well worth it.
Course is in poor shape
Fairways are beat up and hard. Sand traps are more like gravel pits.
Great layout
Great layout. Grass in fairways struggling but greens good. Totally enjoyable and priced right for Scottsdale.
Great layout
Our GolfPass deal made this an excellent course to play for the money. The layout had excellent variety for a desert course. The greens and tees were in excellent condition. The fairways, mostly on the front nine, had multiple spots that were not in good condition. You could tell the greenskeeper was working on it but there were multiple times where I wished I was playing from the rough instead of the fairway.
Great staff at Wildfire
Ive played a lot of courses in the Valley but this was my first time playing Wildfire. I thought it was a very nice, resort style course but a couple things stood out. First, all the staff were really great. The starter was super friendly and the Marshall was awesome at trying to move things along and even escorting me around some groups as I was playing as a single. I never complained and didn’t ask, he just offered to help to try and make sure I had the best experience possible.
The course was in good shape but the greens were excellent and played very fast, much better than the other local courses I’ve been playing lately.
Nice Course
First time playing. Enjoyed the course. Lots of traps off the tee, so need to be accurate and strategic. Greens were fast and in good shape. Would definitely play again. Note: parking lot at the course has a gate to get in. Just pull up and take a ticket- get it validated in the pro shop. Lost 10 minutes figuring this one out!
Great Faldo Course
First time playing this course. Well maintained and beautiful layout. Lots and lots of bunkers. Took me awhile to figure out how to hit out of them. Different swing because sand is firmer than usual. Good pace of play and greens are in tip-top condition.
Problem with carr
Even though I was on the cart path, cart locked up with message , " can't take cart on tee box". I called pro shop and was told they would send out a new cart. Cart didn't arrive and I had to get person in another group to let me share his cart.
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