Arizona Grand Resort & Spa

This course has great potential. My first experience was more than likely unusual. The fairways were very playable but dryer than other courses that I played in the area within the week. They said they were intentionally letting it dry out for maintenance reasons.

We come to Phoenix once a year for a boys week of golf, and the Grand is a staple in our courses to play. We love the variety that the course offers, and the after round amenities. We enjoy it so much here that we always play it twice in our week of golf.

This year we had the unfortunate luck to be behind a foursome that felt it their right to play two balls each off most tees and were not practicing any etiquette when it came to, fixing ball marks on the greens, and they left numerous tee boxes with huge unrepaired divots.

Needless to say their pace of play was excruciating slow, and with the non existent marshall on the course to alleviate this problem, it carried on for the whole round. This made our round of golf extremely long and painfully allowing us no opportunity to get into any kind of rhythm.

After our round I did bring my concerns to the pro shop staff and was told that they don't have a marshall on course as they're able to monitor every foursomes pace of play progress by the GPS on the carts. They also said they did not see anything out of the norm with the pace of play with their group.

Not only did these guys not maintain a good pace of play, they also had three carts for four golfers, were literally defacing the course, blasting very loud music, playing extra balls of most tees, and spending an exorbitant amount of time searching for lost balls. I'm sorry, but these are things your GPS cannot tell you about a group of golfers on your course.

Pay the extra and put Marshalls on the course, and you will have satisfied clientele, as well as less damage on a course that deserves better

The course is beautiful and challenging. Extremely well maintain. So much fun and worth the it. Staff are amazing.

I thoroughly enjoyed this course. Had some of the most challenging hole layouts making you really think about course management. One of the top Arizona courses I have played.

Very well conditioned course that has a few quirky features making first time play a challenge. Numerous holes on the front 9 have blind shots that create the first timer's challenge. The back side is very similar to many of the mountain/desert courses in the valley. A few of the short par 4's, once you have "local knowledge" are well served by "clubbing down".

This course is a real test to my golf. I don't end up with a great score but it increases my skill set and strategies. The course had great views just when I needed a positive distraction to refocus my game.

The greens were great, fairways were good but spotty in a few locations. I love the layout.

The fringe was mostly overgrown, uncut, weedy crabgrass. Looks unkept.

Love this place. Feels like being on vacation for a day. Course is in really good shape for how hot this summer has been and will just get better. Can’t wait to play again.

Overall, the layout is really cool with some really unique cool holes. One par 5 with a crazy bunker setup before the green and a few par 3’s where you’re on top of a hill shooting down on a green. The fairway conditions were pretty good with some very rough patches but the greens are as good as you can get. There were some weird things such as literally walls behind some greens. Saw a rattlesnake on the black tees on 18 so keep an eye out. Overall would recommend for the value.