JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa

This course is nice. It's not one of the nicer public courses, but it's still fun. Only two items that we had an issue with, was 1) no cart girl after 2:30pm...in BUSY season, which makes no sense since our tee time was 1:50pm. And 2) pace of play was not enforced. There was one slow group that was causing us to wait about 4 to 5 minutes between EACH SHOT. The response from the club house was that we were still under expected pace. However, the whole course was moving faster than normal pace except for this group, so having them play faster would have meant more enjoyment for everybody.

Nice layout greens and fairways very good.

Bunkers buy the greens were the worst I have ever

played in. I can't believe they were that bad

Lots and lots of sand. Fairways and greens very well defended by sand. Plenty of room in fairways but errant shots likely to go in sand and potentially into desert scrub.lots of sand!

Greens very fast and subtle .

Staff very efficient and friendly. Expensive round $265.

Sucks you have to pay to park (if free the staff failed to communicate this...)

I live in the area so I play golf at different courses. This is my first time to play here. The course is not in good enough condition for the price they are charging. I do feel it be worth that rate if the bunkers had sand , if the greens were in better shape, if there wasn’t dead grass around the greens. Everyone was friendly and it has the potential to be a great course.

Great day of golf on this course. The fairways & greens were in good shape. Great staff & course layout. I’ll definitely be playing this one again.

Great course and layout. My complaint is that they have so many concrete bunkers. This course is completely designed around bunkers, really cool to look at and play off but they don’t have any sand thy are hard as a rock and deep. For what the charge these bunkers should be maintained more frequently. Other than that it’s a great golf course and really well conditioned. If I was going back just due to the bunker conditions play th Palmer every time.

I have played this course several times and it’s a big layout, well conditioned and a great value. Some courses in the Scottsdale area that are not as nice as this one charge twice as much. This might not have the big fancy name but it’s a must play course when in the area.

The course was in great condition and the Faldo course is a challenging track. I didn’t have even my C+ game so it was a tough day for scoring. Still, sunny and 80 degrees made it nearly perfect.