Faldo at Wildfire Golf Club at Desert Ridge Resort

Have reviewed this course before. Tough length off the tee makes the par fours an up and down challenge almost every time. Course was in great shape for this time of year. Just a few brown areas around the greens

Really nice championship desert course. Staff was a bunch of uppidy stepford types, but guess that's to be expected at a la-di-da place like the Marriot.

Course was in very good condition although a couple of drives actually backed up two or three feet after they hit a soggy part of the fairway. Greens and fairways were great but sand in some of the bunkers was a bit thin and tees could have been mowed just a little lower. Carts and GPS were excellent, staff is professional and helpful. Overall, very enjoyable and easy to recommend.

Fairways and greens are in good shape. Greens were accepting of approaches as they were not too hard.

Pace of play for a late afternoon round was GREAT!

Less than 3 hours

Wildfire- Faldo is a very fine golf course with a ton of bunkers. Tough track for us intermediate golfers, nonetheless it was fun!

The course was very burnt and greens were not in great shape.....even taking into account the hot Arizona conditions. Shocking how disinterested the cart staff was.

Layout is awesome and staff very accomodating as my playing partners were running late. I would not have a chance to play this course in season so I was really glad to have the opportunity

Wonderful, challenging course. Unfortunately a bit lax in keeping sand in the bunkers particularly near the greens.

Speed of play was great,course was in great shape,greens rolled perfectly.

The course is beautiful and very well maintained. The greens are fast and roll true. I was in town for a business meeting and played at 4pm; still got a full round in before sundown. I will play this course again.

Played the course on 5/9. Conditions were excellent. Interesting and challenging layout with generous fairways, nice elevation changes and a wide array of bunkers. Pro shop was excellent. I would definitely recommend this course.

Good course fun to play, lots of sand, couple of drown spots here and there but that bad.

A very challenging but fair layout. I think Faldo went a little overboard with the 108 bunkers and it takes a very skilled player to get the ball close. But the condition of the course and staff made for a pleasant afternoon.

Courses in really good shape staff was friendly pace-of-play was excellent

Don't waste your time and money on this overrated and overpriced course. You'll thank me if you take this review with merit. Its started with the starter being rude. Not just me, several in our group commented on it.

Onto the important stuff. The layout was OK, avwrage for Scottsdale. Nothing outstanding and better options for scenery in the areas. The fairways and tee boxes were good.

Here is this courses biggest weaknesses. For a course that has so many bunkers as to be its major feature.......have good bunker conditions.

In all the bunkers I was in it was shale, pebble-like stones or very course rock like particles. After a very shallow covering of this "stuff" it was hardoan underneath. You wont damage a club in the bunker but they are some old the worst I've played. I'm a decent bunker player but not out of whatever these things are.

OK, and here is the next thing. If you hit you ball out of the fairway into the non-grassed areas (all players do occasionally, even pros) this non-grass areas are all small rocks. Having paid aporx $1000 for new irons there is no way It'd hit them out of this club damaging stuff outside of a money game or competition. Just a dumb design option, stupid actually. I'll hit out of waste bunkers, sand and hardpan all day but not pebbles.

I found some greens to be inconsitent in speed.

I wouldnt play here again. Definitely not worth the money in my opinion. I'm not a hard reviewer based on my previous reviews but this place earned a bad one from my perspective.

Very good course, fun mix of holes, excellent condition.