Verrado Golf Club - Victory Course

I've played the Founders Course a number of times and have enjoyed it. This is my first time playing Victory. Here are my comments:

- greens were punched a week ago but I knew that

- fairway condition was not what I expected with a number of "brown" areea

- pro shop and restaurant were quite small

- Pace of play was excellent (4 hours)

I plan to go back play the Founders course later this week.

I booked this through GolfNow and wasn't aware that the fairways and greens had recently been "punched" for aerification. Granted, the price was substantially less than the $130 rack rate but I've played the course before for a similar price and it was in much better condition. When you get to the course be prepared to be strip searched if you bring a cooler. I brought a small cooler with water and lemonade since it was going to be 100 degrees. The first thing when I walked up to the outside checkin desk was to be greeted with a request to look inside my cooler. It just hit me the wrong way like I was a criminal. It might have been better to just ask me if I had any alcoholic beverages in my cooler and trust me to be honest instead of assuming I'm a liar or criminal right off the bat. Great way to ruin a good outing, thanks "bag guy"! The course itself is beautiful when it's in decent condition. This day it was not. The fairways had a lot of brown/dry spots and had the aerification holes, the greens were bumpy from being aerated, and the tee boxes were so hard you had to find the prime spot to be able to insert your tee very deep. On the plus side, there are water coolers on several holes with ice water and they had boxes with ice cold towels that you could cool off with, a nice touch when it's 100+ degrees. This place used to be a lot better so I'm not sure what happened. I'm not sure if Golfnow has any responsibility to notify you of course conditions, but maybe they should. I am the last person to complain when I'm at the golf course because I'm "at the golf course" if you know what I mean. I could be working so I'm usually happy. This experience not so much. Maybe getting treated like a criminal from the git go put off bad vibes for the day. Maybe a little better customer service or training in how to deal with the cooler situation is in order.

Played here 6 times and love the challenge. Love the layout.It's a "primo" establishment. BUT NOT TODAY!

Screwup w/ the sprinklers. Puddles a' plenty! Sloshy all over.. Had to relocate my ball about every hole to find a a dry area. That's not what a primo establishment should offer. That cost a few strokes. It just wears on you.

Ranger towed the "company line" to inform us we were lucky that we weren't cart path only. He wanted us to bow down and give thanks. Yeah, right!

Course should've given us a heads up in pro shop. They didn't. A 20% discount or food/drink credit afterwards would've been fair compensation. But, NO! Really disappointing!!!!!

Had a great day of golf! Great track, friendly staff and fast greens. So happy I'm only 15 min away! Absolute perfect day!

This is a magnificent course with stunning layout, very very well-maintained sand traps greens and fairways. The only downside that I could comment on was the fact that the fairways were cut very tight. Some areas were a bit scalped. But the overall condition was good to very good. Since the course location is in an essentially retirement community, the fairways were very forgiving with plenty of width. That being said, if you are off the fairway and rough you are in very rocky desert. Bring a few extra golf balls along.

This was our time playing the Victory Course and it was amazing! Loved the course, conditions, and friendly people. Will definitely return!

The elevated tee shots, the scenery, the whole experience....its a golf gem!

The course is fair and fun. The greens are very tricky lots of unseen brakes and also grainy..

Cheers Bill

Outstanding course with fast greens. This is a must play in the Phoenix, Az. area. Will challenge every skill level.

I have reviewed this course before. Just a very nice course, well maintained, and a very unique look. And despite how many times I have played it, it remains a challenge.

This is a beautiful course with lush green fairways and white boulders. There are many blind shots, I did not see a yardage book. They might have them but did not think to ask until we were on the course. The pace of play was fine until a twosome decided to skip a hole and pass our foursome. The rest of the round we waited for them as they waited for the group that was ahead.

The course was in great condition. The holes are not long but you have to hit your tee shot into the right place. The greens are true and challenging. The staff was friendly. The 18th hole is picturesque.

2 issues

As a former pro shop manger here is what shouldn’t happen

The front counter person should not be TELLING us what the box to play (7 handicap)

I know he thinks he helping pace of play but if the group can’t play to well and doesn’t know how to keep place of pay a few hundred yards won’t fix that (That’s the marshals job) (only seen him twice)

Also the the tee sheet had 3 groups at the time we tee’d off plenty of room. I gave him a heads up were fast and lower handicaps

He should have sent us out ahead of the others (again no one on the sheet but the 3 groups ) instead those groups asked us to pass through (very nice of them)

All of that said great course very diverse, blind tee shots, very fun.

I will play it again back tees of course

Great course and superb design. Challenging but playable. The conditions were great and the staff friendly and helpful.

Both the Victory and Founder's courses are very challenging but play the right tees based on your handicap. Fairways were firm and the greens firm and fast but in excellent condition. While it 100 degrees by 3 pm there was a good breeze so it wasn't unbearable other than 6-9 are upwind holes and were LONG holes from the Silver tees at 6500 yards. I hit several hybrids, 5 woods and 3 woods for approach shots to the greens today. Fortunately most ended up on or near the greens.