Francisco Grande Hotel and Golf Resort

The layout of the course is nice. The staff is always friendly. They need consistency on the snack bar. A week ago Wednesday we got snacks and drinks at the turn and this last Wednesday it was closed.

The course is filling in nicely but it needs to be trimmed up better.

Course is just coming out of overseeing. Fairways are long and greens were patchy and long. Still had a blast. Played the back nine twice as a single in 1 hour and 50 minutes while playing through 2 groups.

Staff was very friendly and the course design is interesting very small greens that test your approach shots.

Course was in pretty good shape due to overseeding, the greens were a little long and slow

Course was about 30 minutes from Maricopa. The layout is not bad. Some challenging holes. Couldn’t drive on the fairways and had to stop to car oaths only. Greens were decent but had a few ones that had trenches it seemed. Course was forgiving in some holes as there was wide fairways.

PROS

Decent price

Decent fairways and greens

Pace of play was good

CONS

Mosquitos are deadly

Pricey snacks

At the time, the grass was very long and uncut

Nice layout in the middle of nowhere. Could be good, needs a lot of work. The worst conditioned course I’ve played in recent memory.

I play there often and this year might be their best shape even better than last. Will be glad when not cart path only though as it's a long course.

Don't waste your time. This is a catfish, it looks nothing like the photos. Sprinklers were turned on 5 of the tees so I couldn't play those holes. The holes I did get to play I want too impressed. If you live in the Phoenix area don't waste your time you can find a better, cheaper, and closer course.

Good value for money paid. We had early morning tee time and there was good sized storm storm that caused quite a bit of debris the night before. Just a few tee boxes were affected which was understandable.

Friendly staff, greens in great condition.

Give it a play before it shuts down for the summer.

Got out at 6:10am

2some

Course in good shape greens look nice

Some brown in all fairways

The staff was friendly and the first six holes actually had grass in the fairways and a bit into the rough which is what I expected for the rest of the round. Not so at all!!!! While nearly most of the greens were in pretty good condition, the fairways became absolutely terrible! There were huge sections of fairway that had no grass at all. Beyond that, the layout of the course showed no imagination. For the price, we figured we’d give it a shot. I told my wife afterwards, that even if the course was in great condition (like the photos show), I wouldn’t play there again.

Love the old desert style course, with huge old native trees. Terrific layout for all player levels and the greens were super. All staff were extremely friendly and hepful.

Drove down from Glendale, the last two weekends and played this course. From the time you check in until your game is over, the service there is top notch and the price is very reasonable and a player friendly course. Can’t wait to get back.

We drove down from Phoenix to play this course. It was old dry and a major disappointment. Maybe 20 years ago this was a good big fun course to play. I was ready to leave after the first 9 holes. To make matters worse, the mosquitoes were out of control.

Course was nice and people were friendly. Wear pants though, mosquitoes are out