JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa

The Greens had been airiated. They were unputtable and left in extremely poor conditions. The sand was totally not swept off the greens.

While I received a discount, l was not expecting the sandy conditions of the greens. There were small mounds of sand though out the 18 holes.

I just moved to this area and live across the street from the golf course. In keeping with Marriott normally high premium standards, the Palmer course should have been closed.

This course is an extremely nice, great conditioned course except the greens. I have never seen so much sand on the greens. I don't know why there was so much sand, I assume it's for conditioning, but this amount was absurd. When the ball landed on the green, it splashed sand. This pretty much makes putting ridiculous.

This course is tournament ready. Huge bunkers, smooth and receptive greens and unscathed tee boxes. Really impressed, glad they lowered rates so it’s more accessible than last summer.

Some holes are forgiving and some are definitely not. The sand is rather hard but that’s the desert for ya. Challenging but fun course!

The course overall is similar to the Faldo course on site. We had a group of people in front of us that moved at a snails pace. With our group was playing we should have been in and out in 3.5 hours, maybe 3 hours and 45 minutes tops.

The players assistant or in common terms, “Marshall” told the group to speed up multiple times. They were the only thing holding up the whole course.

The group continued to play very slow. Was told from the club cleaner the Marshall will only ask, but never actually do anything - this led to a poor experience which will simply make me and of of the 2 never go back.

Called pro shop, no accountability, felt like they’ve had the same issue many times and all would say is “sorry”

Awful.

Accommodating staff, facilitated expedient start and paired with a great “blind date.” The course was in excellent condition. The greenside bunkers were compacted, but playable.

Course was in very good shape. Grass in fairways and greens is nice.

Had trouble making 10’ or less putts but was probably me. Pace on greens very uniform hole to hole which makes putting much easier.

Would highly recommend.