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Conditions
4.6
Value
4.3
Layout
4.9
Friendliness
4.6
Pace
4.0
Amenities
3.9
91.6%
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4.7
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4.8
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4.3
Layout
4.9
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Course Highlights
Quintero's dramatic elevation changes and uniquely designed holes make it one of Arizona's most celebrated layouts. Welcoming staff and well-maintained conditions consistently reward golfers who make the scenic drive out.

About

Holes 18
Type Semi-Private
Style Desert/Traditional
Par 72
Length 7249 yards
Slope 148
Rating 75.3

Located in the desert just north of Phoenix and Scottsdale, the golf course at Quintero Golf Club is a challenge but with up to as many as nine tees per hole, it can accommodate golfers of all different abilities and handicaps. The rolling, desert terrain of the course features dramatic elevation changes for interesting play. The golf course's design has wide fairways and plenty of water hazards and sand bunkers. The most difficult hole is the par-5 8th hole, which plays uphill with three large bunkers alongside the right side of the lay-up area. Another difficult but noteworthy hole is Quintero Golf Club's third, which has a scenic lake to the left that sometimes tricks golfers into playing close to it with their tee shot for an easier second shot to the green.

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Course Details

Year Built 2000
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Bent Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Rees Jones (2000) Steve Weisser (2000)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Caddies No
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Bunker Yes
Golf School/Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted Yes
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Collared shirt and bermuda shorts required. No denim.

Food & Beverage

Restaurant, Beverage Carts

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Banquet Facilities

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Reviews

4.6
1339 Reviews (1339)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 64
Amazing Food 31
Patio Dining 22
Course Challenges Include:
Elevation Changes 177
Bunkers 156
Undulating Greens 98
This course/club is great for:
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 145
Advanced Golfers 138
A Bucket list/Top 100 Pick 120
This Course's Location is:
Worth the Drive 179
In the 'Burbs 26
Convenient to the City 12

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Reviews 26
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Very dramatic views and challenging

The course was in great shape and #9 par 3 was awesome! Loved the layout with very challenging fast greens. Highly recommend!

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Spectacular Views - but.....

The views here are spectacular. Tees and fairways were excellent but the greens were a little torn up from ball marks. Greens were as fast as concrete, and our overall experience was great. Don't buy the wings in the snack shop (not good) and smuggle in your drinks. We ordered 4 mixed drinks on the course and were charged $56.00. That's a little out of the park at $14.00 per drink - plus tip !!!

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great course!

Love this course. It was my first time playing it and I will be playing there a lot more. I'm an average golfer that gets to play once or twice a month and felt that it was a challenging but fair course. Not so difficult that you go home mad. This is the best scenery of any courses I have played since moving to Phoenix! The conditions were perfect. If you haven't played here yet, go check it out. Definitely worth the drive.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Amazing Course

While it is a bit of a trek to get to Quintero, what awaits you is what, in my opinion is the best course around Phoenix. The course is really playable with birdies and par opportunities at every hole, but with big scores for poor play. Greens run fast but true. The beauty of the course is amazing and the peacefulness of the surroundings is amazing. Play it, you will love it.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
3.0
First Time Playing
Hot weather
Used cart

Good, but definitely not Great

Overall, I found this course to be "Good", but definitely not great. The greens I played were fast and probably 12.5 on the stimp. This speed causes many average golfers grief and caused some long 2nd putts for people less aware of the speed. Short shots rarely stayed close to the hole. The greens had a lot of brown spots and really were not looking proper.

Fairway design was good and kept balls in play with a "bowl-like" shape, so we did not hit a lot of balls into the desert.

There is a 1 mile cart ride from the pro shop to the 1st tee and this same cart ride at the end of the round. This implies a design flaw in where the club house is (imo). I took a wrong turn and fortunately corrected myself. The signs between the pro shop and 1st hole needs to be more emphatic and clear.

The routing of the course is quirky as we often did not know exactly where the next tee's were. We also had to go back and forth finding our tee's. The signage on this course is definitely a problem. We saw 2 groups "lost" and had gone the wrong way.

The Par 3's on this course are impressive. I hit the same club on 3 of them and at least 3 of them are extremely similar in shot selection. Take pictures because these par 3's are the best point of playing this course.

Overall, I like the course, but it is not worth the money from my point of view. It is a long drive from anything and I believe you can do better.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Average
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Quintero Golf Club

Quintero is one of my favorite courses in the greater Phoenix/Scottsdale area; the course is maintained in pristine condition and provides an excellent test ; fantastic views and vistas are the rule from most holes; staff if friendly and accommodating; will definitely return

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Outstanding Golf and Lodging Experience

We rented the one of the town houses located on the course for 4 nights. The town house, course, staff, and overall experience were outstanding and we will be making it an annual trip.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Best course out of the 5 we played

Course is set in beautiful Desert Mountain Scenery and is just a short drive north and west of Phoenix.

Amazing scenic views, and great layout for golf. A tee box for everybody. I recommend "playing forward" if your an average golfer. Really enjoyed our experience. Cassandra's provides excellent drink and food choices for relaxing after your round.

Thanks Brad, for making our last golf outing to the Phoenix area a great experience!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 8
Handicap 20-24
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Cold weather
Used cart

Lots of fun

The positives: The course was really fun to play. Because of the elevation changes, there were big drop-off par 3's, long uphill par 4's and 5's and a nice variety of shot making options. I think I used every club in the bag this round. The greens were fast and fun and the hazards are pretty unique being a higher elevation course (relatively speaking). The fairways were generous and I had a really good time there.

The negatives: The tee boxes were completely chewed up and rarely flat. It stood out as a big issue when you really had to look for a great place to tee up. And the course markings were WEAK. More than a few times we found ourselves looking for the right place to go. Also the staff was a bit rude. I know I'm a younger looking guy, but I was greeted with contempt "Can I help you?" "YOU'RE playing here??". Pretty rude, to be honest. Also, the clubhouse is in completely the wrong spot. You have to drive in a golf cart 5-7 minutes up a huge hill to get to the first tee and practice area. Then, after a long round, you have to drive all the way back down the hill to get back to your car! Crazy. It felt like they built the clubhouse first, then built the course where the course made sense. Very illogical.

So, my gripes have less to do with the track, than the experience of playing here. I'd likely recommend to someone to go check out, but I doubt I'd go back.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Poor
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Had a 2:14 time, we got there they said we could get started early. That was great as we were a twilight rate and may not have finished our round prior to sunset. Course was absolutely perfect, couldn't find anything wrong with our experience except our scores.... little higher in price but worth every dollar. Bring your camera too for some great pictutes!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Superior practice facilities

Quintero is not only a world class golf course with a challenging layout and beautiful landscapes, but the driving range and multiple putting and chipping greens were an excellent start to our day.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 20
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Verrado Golf Club

Course was fantastic. Greens were quick and rolled true. Always enjoy playing this course as there are no homes right on the course and you get the true desert feel. Views around the course are phenomenal. Make it a point to play here if you can.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

Incredible

It was my first golf trip to Scottsdale. This course is absolutely worth the hour drive outside of town. It's the first course I've ever played where the starter gives you a hole by hole tip sheet and you need it becuse you've never played such elevated par 3s. The practice facilities were nice and first few holes were cool and it kept getting better and better. The par 3s are amazing with huge down hill shots. We found ourselves keeping our cell phones in our pockets because you could take a pic of the scenery on every hole. And pics don't do this course justice! The 3 of us agreed that this was the coolest course we've ever played and that's after playing We Ko Pa Cholla the day before. My only nit pick like mentioned before would be ball marks on some the greens but we quickly stopped caring. This is a must play.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 48
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Used cart

Mixed review

The course layout and setting are pretty hard to beat at Quintero. As the course was rated #1 in the State for 2016 by Golf Digest, maybe my expectations were set a bit high. I will nit pick a bit, since we paid a premium price to play here. The greens were marked up quite a bit with repaired/unrepaired ball marks. Not all the fault of the staff, of course. We tried to repair ours and a few others, but it was definitely a distraction. There were a lot of grass clippings left around and on the greens also. I am thinking about Wickenburg Ranch when I am writing this and if I had the choice, I would play before Quintero, simply because of the green conditions and immaculate grooming of Wickenburg.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 78
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Top 1000 Contributor
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Wear your big boy pants, this is a gem

This may be the best course the public has access to in the Scottsdale area and it is worth the drive to go out and play this course.

They are using temporary facilities there until a clubhouse is built. The employees were very welcoming from the bag drop, pro shop, driving range, starter and cart girls. Quintero is a very difficult Rees Jones Designed track that is hilly affording some great views. All four par 3's have yardage drops of 15-25 yards less than the cart GPS which only shows yardage numbers to the green. The very handy course tips they give you in the pro shop lists that. None the less the 5 Dollar yardage book did come in handy. The 6400 yard silver tees had a slope rating of 137 with the gold being 143 and black at 148 and 7249 yards. The greens were exceptionally fast and it was cart path only due to two days of rain prior. If you have an opportunity to play here do it because you wont regret the visit.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 28
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

Worth the Drive and Money

Loved it!

This place is all about the golf. Some gorgeous and tough holes. The conditioning is immaculate. The views are great. Has a true desert golf feel.

Only knock in this place would be the drive and the price. Worth the splurge and 45 min drive in my opinion.

P.s. you'll be called out if you only tip the club cleaner $1 (it's all we had).

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser

Best public course in AZ

A fantastic golf course in great condition. Lush fairways and fast, but fair greens. While in the middle of nowhere, no houses around the course makes for a rare chance to play golf without the detractions that accompany real estate development. Other than the five hour round we caught because of a clueless foursome ahead of us, the day was spectacular. Scottsdale tracks have nothing on this rural Peoria beauty.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
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Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Desert Heaven

My brother & I took a weekend trip out to Scottsdale to play some golf for his birthday. I have a few local friends out there and when I asked them what course we should play they all unanimously said The Q! In my mind there is no better person to ask than an avid local golfer who knows every golf course in the area.

It is located outside the main part of Scottsdale but not far at all and the drive goes very fast. And to be honest, this only added to the prestige and amazement of the course as the views from every hole were spectacular, with only desert heaven to enjoy and no buildings or civilization to clutter up the scenery.

There was a temporary club house but it provided everything needed and was totally fine. I'm sure the new full club house will just make it that much better.

Driving the cart out to the practice facility was gorgeous and once we arrived the excitement sets in. The range itself is gorgeous, everything perfectly manicured with pyramids of brand new range balls (not beat up old ones).

Moving right over to the first tee actually started one of the best Golf days my brother and I have had in a long time.

I cannot think of one aspect of the course that was not magnificent and 5 stars no doubt.

To start the grass was so good you wanted to fee if it was fake. And of course it was not. It was as perfect as I have ever seen grass at any golf course. I played Torrey Pines a few weeks earlier and it was fantastic but there is no doubt this was better, not only by the eye test but also by feel. Flushing a shot from the fairways could not feel better. The rough was thick and plush, so it had a love hate relationship, but I couldn't deny it was gorgeous and in amazing shape.

Every tee had a perfect line of sight for the holes and were all nestled in to the desert landscape so naturally. All you could see was the gorgeous green of the holes then miles and miles of gorgeous desert flat lands, hills and mountains. The grass and underlying dirt on the tees was perfect; soft enough to put a tee in easily but firm enough to have good footing and be able to have great contact on the ball. I do not recall one that wasn't level allowing for a great stance and set up to the ball.

The layout of the course and it's difficulty were definitely not easy. But it also was totally getable. Plenty of holes to hit good shots and have a good score and feel proud you did it on such a demanding course. It's now 4 days later and I can still remember every hole. It really is that memorable and unique.

I don't think words could describe the greens. They would rival any PGA tour event's greens. I will leave it at that.

I could go on and on but I think I gave a decent picture of what I thought of this course. Just one more thing to add, the staff were great. They understood the idea of service and ensuring us as the customer felt cared for. All did it with a smile and you could feel they were proud of the course they worked for and service they provided.

I will recommend this course to anyone that loves the game of golf at its purest. I have already made my next reservation and can't wait to tee it up again.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
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