Orange Tree Resort

This was my third course in Arizona. While the layout was decent and the fairways were generally fair despite being lined with homes, there were a few maintenance issues that really affected play.

They watered the greens during the day, which is unusual, and unfortunately, the sand traps were wet as a result. Wet bunkers are not playable, and these hadn’t been reworked after watering. In that condition, I would recommend treating them as ground under repair and pulling your ball out.

The greens were also incredibly slow — I’d rate them about a 6–8 on the stimpmeter. That took some getting used to.

Course management is important here. You don’t always need to pull out a driver, even on some of the par 5s. Thoughtful shot placement will serve you better than just distance.

For summer conditions, the course played well. I know Jon just came onboard and I'm sure the greens improvements will be coming along shortly. It still would be nice to have cart services but I also understand that not many people are playing in the afternoon. I don't recall if anyone was at the snack shop when I made the turn. Keep up the good work, guys.

Great staff, great conditions, great rangers. Thank you orange tree!

Course fairways need work but most of the greens were in good condition. Ranger was not very nice as he asked up to pick up the pace even though we weren't that far behind the group ahead of us. The group behind us was 1 or 2 holes in back of us and we never saw them until the 16th green we were teeing off 17th and it may have been a different group.

Several greens pretty beat up. We had to move our balls in order not to roll thru damaged spots. I’ve always liked the layout, but it can wear down during the hot summers.

Great course that was very green. Best rangers I have seen in 10 years- did their job and kept the idiots in front of moving.

The Putting greens were in poor condition. Multiple greens had spotty putting greens. Need to take care of the greens.

Several greens were in really bad shape but most were very good. Fairways need help as most were in bad shape. Course had just been worked on as many plugs were all around. Course Marshall told us to pick up pace even though we had to wait on over half of the holes

Finished round in 4 hours so there wasn't a need to bother our foursome

Great course and great bar after for a few cold ones.

I like the layout of this course. And really like to play here. But this is the 2nd time my tee time through golf now was messed up at the course. The 1st time I booked, showed up and the COURSE WAS CLOSED. No email, text, nothing. Never even a call after I sent a message of complaint. Yesterday 6/7, I show up 20 minutes early for my 6:04 tee time and no one is there but the cart guy who says the pro shop doesn’t open until 6 am.

They finally show up and say, the earliest tee time is 6:28. I show them my confirmation email of 6:04 and the pro shop blames golf now. I said no, they are YOUR vendor, it’s the course’s responsibility.

We pay and go to tee off, the starter shows up at the 1st tee and asked us to wait 20 minutes because the greens keepers will stop working if we are on the course too early. Oh and we also need to make sure we don’t play too fast because they have back 9 tee times until 8 am. He was very nice about it all, but come on.

The greens were Terrible, the worst I’ve seen in AZ. Slow, bumpy, bare spots with sand. For $72 in June, they way

Greens were in horrible condition, some with huge bare spots. Rest of course was good

The greens were in terrible shape. It is really sad how downhill this course seems to be going. Snack shack closed on a Sunday, limited food offerings available on beverage cart. Almost like they are trying to offset the operating costs knowing that the course is in poor condition.

Emlpoyees were very courteous and accommodating. Enjoyed the layout of course and challenge.

Only minor complaint would be that some greens had large gaps of grass so had to putt through dirt. That was only like 3 holes.

Overall great experience

Course in. Decent shape heading into summer. Few of greens dead grass, unpatched. Always shade and staff very friendly. Good value