McDowell Mountain Golf Club

We traveled for a golf trip to Scottsdale and was looking forward to playing this course. Unfortunately, right from the start we did not have a good experience. Right after we tee'd off, a Marshall came and asked us to skip the first hole because THEY we're falling behind with the tee times. We had a Marshall come up twice more on the 3rd hole which was a Par 3 where we had to wait for people to get off the green to play. By the 4th hole, I was so frustrated when a new Marshall came up for the fourth time of only playing three holes and started telling my friends and I that we shouldn't be playing that course even though we hadn't fallen behind much. After that the Marshall basically said to stop playing after 9 holes and get a refund, but we played on and let one group play through who we stayed right behind the entire back 9. If the tee times are too close together or you can't put together logistics that allow ample time for players to play, then you can't turn around and blame the players. They knew it was going to be a busy day, but had no alternate plan. And if they really thought it was going to be a problem from the beginning of our round, they could have told us and we would have thought about this differently. I loved the course and the setup, but the staff made my experience sub-par for all of the front 9 and I would find it hard to play here again or recommend this course to a friend.

Great holes and scenery. The only issue is the power lines run alongside about half the holes. Clubhouse and restaurant offer excellent sunset views and good food.

Booked a 6:45am tee time as I had to be in Scottsdale for an 11:30 lunch. Starter wanted two "friends of the course" to play alone at their request. Instead of allowing me to go ahead and fly through the course (6:45 was the first tee), the starter had me wait until 7:09am to play with two seniors and behind a 4-some. Course was in GREAT condition other than rather slow greens.

Was allot of fun. Course was in great shape but pace got really slow on the back side. Course had great happy hour prices to boot so it was a great day

Basic muni type course. Scruffy in parts.

Lots of powerlines nearby.

Not worth going out of your way.

Attempted to play this course yesterday, did not know that they were preparing for overseeding, would not have booked it if was aware!! Ground hard and has been scarified, no watering has been done in preparation for next stage. The only saving grace was the hospitality after the round at the 19th!!

Got a smoking deal as they are getting ready to over seed. Greens rolled way faster than they looked. Some shorter holes which makes you think off the tee. Nice bunkering but as most courses needs some more sand.Nice views of Mc Dowell Mountains. Joined up with another guy, we were done 18 in 2hrs 15 mins ran into a foursome on 10 & they let us play through ... Thxs guys.

Looked forward to playing this course for first time but was very disappointed that the driving range was not open for warm ups. Course was preparing for overseeding. They should note this in on-line booking sites, so consumers know real-time limitations. Regardless, fairways were cut tight with no second cut. Greens were good. May return when the grass grows back.

fairways are pretty wide and not much for out of bounds so keeping the ball in play is fairly easy...some holes are long though

The course was in good condition for being summer in Arizona. Each hole was approachable for the average golfer. Some of the holes were challenging getting to the greens. I enjoyed the course.

Been in AZ a yr and played many courses and til this date still my favorite course.

My only issue is it was 106 on Wed and they have plenty of areas with available water but id still recommend a cart girl.

The tees and fairways were in fine condition as well as nice and green, so no complaints there. It's just a shame to watch all the putts wobble and hop instead of roll.

I realize that this is not a prime condition time of year for desert courses, but by comparison to other local courses of equal quality, the greens at McDowell Mountain were the worst I've played. They were very slow and extremely bumpy. It didn't appear as though they had been aerated recently, so that was not the reason.

Thankfully we got a good price on Golf Now, so the value of the round turned out to be closer to the overall quality of the course.

We had a great time.

We were lucky we could take our time, and had soo much fun teaching a young boy the game.

Thanks for being so nice and understanding with the young guy.

This was a great course and fun to play.

Only thing- we wish they gave a layout of the course in hand before we started to have while we played.