Whirlwind Golf Club - The Cattail Course

There are some solid options for golf in Chandler, AZ, especially in the mid-tier range. Lone Tree is not bad. Ocotillo is always good, if you can handle water on almost every hole. And, I’ll never shut up about Bear Creek being the best value in the east valley. The best Course, however, is Whirlwind. We played the Cattail and it was immaculate. We went off the silvers (just over 6100yds), so it can be very playable, or you can back it way up to over 7k, if you're a glutton for punishment. So many cool looking shots and fun risk-reward decisions to be made. It’s kind of in the middle of nowhere, no houses or anything like that. It’s a dessert course, but pretty forgiving off the tee. They know how good they are, so the price can creep up there, but we grabbed an early afternoon time at a discount and easily got it in (4.5 hours). Whirlwind is at the top of the mid-tier courses and it’s probably top 5 courses in the Phoenix area for the price.

Played this course for the first time. Was looking for a course that would play well and be in good condition a day after all the rain the region had seen over the past week. This course delivered, fairways like a carpet and the course was not on cart path only which surprised us. Will definitely be back to this course. Great layout, great conditions, and super friendly staff with great amenities

Whirlwind is always one of the best conditioned courses around, the whole course was in excellent condition.

Greens were pure, fairways great, awesome practice facilities. Whirlwind always has it going.

Began 1st hole with no other group in sight. Early morning tee time and nice summer course condition, and then...

Following completion of 1st hole, we drove to 2nd tee and were greeted by group waiting to tee off. Hoping this wouldn't be an ongoing theme throughout the day, we plodded along. Saw the ranger 3 or 4 times, he even stopped once and we politely asked what the hold up was. He insisted we were still on track, and ahead of pace - despite ongoing strolls looking for lost balls (ours and mostly others) on every hole. Upon completing our round 5 plus hours later, we kept wondering why we had a wait on every single shot following the 1st hole, and met the group in front of us following 18th - who weren't extremely pleased either. They mentioned how foursome in front of them had holes open throughout the round, and how frustrated they were also with the pace of play. Neither of us were sure if the ranger ever spoke with the offending foursome ahead, but felt something more should have, and could have been done - like ranger choosing to follow along (assuming he spoke with them about poor pace), or allowing groups to play through. Course was great overall, but I wouldn't recommend in good conscience until this is resolved.

Lovely course, nice cart, not busy enough for a beverage cart to be out there but plenty of water was available. Course condition was good, just hard to keep your concentration in that kind of heat. But summer is the only time it’s affordable.

Surprised didn’t have any mud balls on the fairway after the rain. Played Devils Claw. Last week we played Cattail and many balls in the fairway were mud balls. Maybe Devils Claw has better drainage? The guys working on the course upkeep were much more aware of golfers, stopping their equipment when we were near, unlike a few weeks ago. There were not many players (we started at 0730) so it felt like we had the course to ourselves. The starter, Scott, always offers us other tee times so we can play as a twosome and we were able to do that this week. The course is in excellent shape and all the staff are wonderful. My brother and I love playing here!

We started at 7:30. Many spots in the fairways were very wet, so lots of mud balls. The course & staff are great. That was my only complaint.

Outstanding course conditions. A little drive from the west valley but is worth it.

there seem to be more maintenance crew on the course this time and it was annoying & distracting. The guy mowing the tee boxes just kept mowing when were teeing off. One water hole they were working on something along the edge of the water with a very loud piece of equipment, and they didn’t stop when we were on the green. One time they were mowing behind the tee boxes, mostly dirt, and it was windy. We had dirt blowing in our faces. They did stop when we teed off, but it was a short par 3 & they started up once we left the tee box. With the wind blowing pretty hard we got a lot of dirt blown at us. (This was 2 months ago on a day that had 20-30mph winds. I realize they have a job to do, but they need to be more aware of the golfers.