10601 N 56th St. , Scottsdale, Arizona 85254, US
(480) 948-6100
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About Orange Tree Resort

Scottsdale's Orange Tree Resort provides condominium-style accommodations geared for families and groups. It is also home to its own 18-hole parkland golf course, Orange Tree Golf Club. The resort features 160 large suites with patios or terraces and barbecue pits, multiple pools and hot tubs, badminton courts, horseshoe pits and a community center. There are an onsite activities programs for families and kids.

Facts

Price Range$$, $$$
Property Class★★★
Acres128
Year Opened1957
Number of Units100-300

Amenities & Services

Room TypesSuite, Villas/Casitas
Fitness CenterYes
Practice FacilityYes
Golf School/AcademyYes
Banquet SpaceYes

Rules

Is the resort pet friendly?No
Is resort stay required for a tee time?No

Golf courses at Orange Tree Resort

Reviews

3.1
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Reviews 9
Skill Intermediate
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5.0
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First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
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Reviews 3
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
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Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
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Reviews 10
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Orange tree

The golf course was fine. Sand traps are hard as a rock they should be ashamed of themselves

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 39
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Course was dry just off the fairway near a lot of the greens.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played

Need a Ranger

No ranger once in 18 holes. Carts in front of us were driving on the par 3’s. Golfer playing in a wife beater and bare feet - is there no dress code? Twosomes were not paired up so we had three twosomes following foursomes. Cart girl had absolutely no idea of where to park to be out of golfers line off the box. As a positive course was in best condition we have seen in some time. Will we play there again - perhaps. Put your prices down and then put out only foursomes wherever possible.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Average
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Reviews 19
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Great day!

Nichole in the golf shop is very nice. Starters both good guys. Course in excellent shape. Pace of play great and Jessica the cart girl is a 10! Only complaint is one GPS on cars nor yardage on sprinkler heads.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
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Reviews 2
1.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Poor Customer Service from Director of Operations

I was part of a wedding group that had 17 people and we had the first 4 tee times of the morning. You would think that with the amount of people that came they would be ok with one group having 5 people if the rate of play was not delayed. No one from the course said anything the morning of and I ended up being part of the group that had 5 people. We played the front nine in 2 hours and 15 minutes and at the turn one of the rangers then had an issue with it. We said sorry and what does he want us to do? No one said anything to us. He drove off on his cart and on the 10th the Director of Operations John Jackson pulled up and right off the bat was extremely rude, yelling and threating to kick us off. I was not the one who made the tee times and that was my first time meeting 15 of the players but John Jackson directed all his rudeness towards me. He did not care to have a conversation, he then said we had 10 minutes to split the group up or be kicked off. We told him that we were not behind and had to still wait for the group ahead of us and that splitting us up would hold back the people behind us. He did not care. We split up and on the next tee box I turned around to noticed there was a group of 5 people playing another hole. I took a picture of them to show John at the end of the round. After a hole he came back and said we could go back to 5 so that whole mess was for nothing. At the end of the day, I went in to talk to him and show him the picture. He did not care so they must have been a member or friend. I told him he ruined my back nine and I wanted to be reimbursed for that. He literally laughed at my face and said no. He is a very poor leader and has no customer service skills. Looking at other sites and seeing their reviews now it shows there is a track record for this, and I will have no problem telling everyone I meet to never spend your money at this course. There are plenty of courses in AZ that treat people with respect.

Conditions Average
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 2
1.0
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Very Poor Customer Service from John Jackson

I was part of a wedding group that had 17 people and we had the first 4 tee times of the morning. You would think that with the amount of people that came they would be ok with one group having 5 people if the rate of play was not delayed. No one from the course said anything the morning of and I ended up being part of the group that had 5 people. We played the front nine in 2 hours and 15 minutes and at the turn one of the rangers then had an issue with it. We said sorry and what does he want us to do? No one said anything to us. He drove off on his cart and on the 10th the Director of Operations John Jackson pulled up and right off the bat was extremely rude, yelling and threating to kick us off. I was not the one who made the tee times and that was my first time meeting 15 of the players but John Jackson directed all his rudeness towards me. He did not care to have a conversation, he then said we had 10 minutes to split the group up or be kicked off. We told him that we were not behind and had to still wait for the group ahead of us and that splitting us up would hold back the people behind us. He did not care. We split up and on the next tee box I turned around to noticed there was a group of 5 people playing another hole. I took a picture of them to show John at the end of the round. After a hole he came back and said we could go back to 5 so that whole mess was for nothing. At the end of the day, I went in to talk to him and show him the picture. He did not care so they must have been a member or friend. I told him he ruined my back nine and I wanted to be reimbursed for that. He literally laughed at my face and said no. He is a very poor leader and has no customer service skills. Looking at other sites and seeing their reviews now it shows there is a track record for this, and I will have no problem telling everyone I meet to never spend your money at this course. There are plenty of courses in AZ that treat people with respect.

Conditions Average
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Sand traps

Everything was amazing except the sand traps, hard as cement.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Standing around getting stiff

the front nine was a bit slow but was able to stay loose and play well. the back nine we stood on the t-box for long periods of time and got stiff and blew the entire day.

Don't know why it was so slow but I probably won't go back.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Orange Tree Experience

The Proshop, starter and course marshalls were all friendly and professional. The fairways were nice and plush and greens rolled a little slow. Great experience at the Orange Tree golf course!!

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 12
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

Unbelievably Slow

Course is in good shape, greens better than most I played recently. Moderately fast and true.

BUT, the course play unbelievably slow, over 5 HOURS. Too many Bachelor parties, they were teaming up and play 8 somes from the BLUE TEES, which they couldn't play even on a non windy day. Marshall tried to help but his 4 hour mandate was completely ignored. Need mean Marshalls, not nice guys saying please.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 5
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

First off

Course was very green, almost too wet, but we did tee off at 6:10 AM. Staff was awesome…food cart came out for the back nine. Greens are ok, a little slow and grainy. Fairways are great, tee boxes need work. Traps get a back rap but they were good for us. Bit of a forgettable layout, many holes look the same. We paid $93 so not terrible. Played in 3:10 so that was the best part. Pro-shop was stocked!

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 15
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
First Time Playing

Slow play. Rock hard bunkers.

We waited at least 5 minutes on every tee. No ranger ever.

The threesome ahead of us was all over the course. Naturally they didn’t offer to let us play through. Rock hard bunkers. We played in 4 1/2 hours and would have finished in 3 1/2 if not for exceptionally slow play. Course conditions ok. Worth about a $50 green fee with cart.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 9
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing

Nice course

I liked this course a lot but it just seemed flat and uneventful for a $100 outing. The course is pure, didn't have an unfair lie the whole day. greens are fast and true, not overly receptive and most greens are elevated so you pay the price if you don't hold the green. One thing I really liked a lot were the trees - the fairways missed required well executed punch shots, but you'll be rewarded if you execute the shoot, not like some courses where you have to just get lucky to miss trees.. the scrambling is a lot of fun on this one.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 49
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Pace problem

We teed off at around 11 and quit after hole 14 which took. Us 4 hours. Supposedly, there were 3 bachelors party groups in front of us holding up play. Not a good excuse. On the plus side the golf shop staff and starter were welcoming.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Fair
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