McDowell Mountain Golf Club

I love the layout of this course, and I understand it's the end of a very hot August, but the conditions were just awful.

All the beautiful desert and grasses were now just dirt. The fairways were riddled with weeds and crabgrass and the greens were so slow and bumpy, you had no idea where your ball would end up. And I've never seen tee boxes as bad as these were.

This used to be a fabulous place to take visitors, and one I would go to myself a couple of times a month. Now, I doubt I'd go back. Not to mention it was almost $80 to play even though it was 100+ degrees.

Also no rangers, and the cart girl went home by noon, so only access to water was few and far between coolers. Not even a free bottle in your cart.

Always in good shape. Entire course is littered with range balls. Pick up the range balls on every hole. ???

I knew the greens were punched 10 days ago. I wasn’t expecting most of the fairways to be so patchy combine the two $50 is too much. Staff very friendly. I wish I had taken some pics of the fairways.

Greens were bumpy but playable returning from aeration.

McDowell is a good moderate difficulty course with good value. Worth playing if in Scottsdale area. Only drawback is no GPS in carts which is a plus especially for first time players. Saying this, not to many blind shots to navigate but still nice to know distances to hazards etc.

I will say one good thing about this place. The pace of play was outstanding, but it’s only because no one was on this course. The guys working there are super friendly so that’s a positive, but it only goes downhill from there. The bev cart was in by noon, the halfway cart was closed by 2, that doesn’t really matter to me just stating a fact. The greens were atrocious, there is more dirt than grass here in the fairways. On holes 9 and 18 it’s thought to find you ball even if it’s in the fairway as they are both littered with range balls. The range itself was okay at least I was able to hit off of grass. For $70 I would have had a more enjoyable experience at top golf with opposite handed clubs.

Hidden Gem in the McDowell Preserve. Challenging track in good condition considering the weather. Highly recommend playing now with very reasonable prices

Garbage conditions for that $. If you go past designated areas to lay up, Youll most likely be around a burnt out/no grass/or straight mud lie. Your forced to layup into designated areas minus the par5’ for better conditions.

So disappointed in this course. 10th and 18th fairways are filled with range balls. Never seen anything like it. Driving range is all dirt. 85 degrees on a Saturday on Memorial Day Weekend and no beverages after 2:00. We called the pro shop to get them to send someone out and they said “she went home”. Total joke of a course for $111 per person.