Resorts at McCormick Ranch Scottsdale

This is a classic gem of a course located in the heart of Scottsdale. Whenever it’s a special occasion or my family wants to play — this is overall a great spot! Courteous staff, good locale, medium level of difficulty, beautiful wildlife in the eagles and prettiest sunset.

This course has it all — courteous staff, great location, good course layout, medium level of difficulty, beautiful eagles to see and overall a nice golf outing with my family!!

Paid full cost to play The Pine course on golf now. Just to get to golf course and find out that both The Palms and The Pines courses back nines are under renovation. So had to play both front nines. Still nice course but really wanted to play the full 18 holes at The Pines.

Just had fun after not playing and practicing for 2-3 weeks. Bermuda is coming in even without consistent 100 degree weather. Got paired with 3 randoms and I had a blast. I shot two under par. Just had fun worked on my game and enjoyed the summer day! About 95 degrees and a little breeze. Course is not in bad shape to start the summer season. Greens are maybe a 10. Just a tad slow but they will be rolling faster soon with time.

We played three other courses on this trip for lesser amount that were by far in much better shape.

This course is in such poor condition I felt like an idiot for falling for their scam. You’re a complete sucker if you play their back nines and they do nothing about the complaints. The customer service is very poor. Mud balls, casual water and mud everywhere. Many of the greens are diseased. But hey, here’s two positives: the few greens that were not diseased were fun to putt. Cart girl was absolute smoke show!!! I felt bad for her having to work in such poor conditions. This course is a mid tier muni at best. I can’t reiterate how poor the customer service was addressing my dissatisfaction. Do Not play this course!!! It is also deliberately unclear when you reserve your tee time if you are reserving the front nines or back nines. I thought I was reserving the fronts…I think it’s deliberately vague.

Still water in bunkers and water puddles that swallow your golf ball all over the course. Plus it was advertised as the Palm course, but noooo, the starter told me that what I got thru golf now was the back nine on the Palms and the back nine on the Pine course. These are two completely separate coursed! This is almost criminal. Never ever will I step foot on those swampy grounds

The course is in awful condition. I have not played a course in worse condition and I have played some terrible courses. The fairways are crab grass, where it isn't dirt. The greens are diseased and unplayable. There was group of 5 in front of us, with multiple children taking 20+ swings per hole. I'm all for kids playing and having fun, but the rangers should have discussed pace of play with the adults in the group. We left after 9 holes, complete waste of time and money.

Decent round of golf at a price below their normal levels. I wouldn't pay more than $90 for this course. Pace of play was good and other golfers were nice. Staff at check in and at the carts didn't seem to have customer service skills. We smiled and thanked them but no replies. Makes you wonder if they are unhappy in general or with you.

Greens were mostly in bad shape. Standing water in a lot of the traps and other places. Lots of areas under repair. Course for sure needs work but if you want to go out and play a fast round with little notice this course would be a good choice.

This course was in very bad conditions. The worst hard packed bunkers with no sand, dead spots on most greens, and dried out dead fairways hitting off dirt. Nice staff, nice layout. Its a shame this course has gotten worse over the years.

I really enjoyed the Pines front 9 holes. We had to play the Palms front nine as our back 9 that day so my review is only for The Palms. This was well maintained as it had clearly been watered and while the greens were recently aerated they were fast and fair. Good tee boxes which have been hard to find in the Valley. Try the Pines!

I’m sorry but course are charging 4 x what they used to but putting none of the profits back into the course. First they give you a bucket with about 20 balls the fairways where there is grass is painted green. They seem to have a lot of locals that love it but not me.

I played this corset twilight twice and I got 16 holes in one time and 13 or 14 holes in another time.

The course is decently maintained, but because it’s Bermuda grass there are rough spots/hard spots in the fairways and dirt patches. Most difficult thing about this course is, if you haven’t played the beginning of the holes are very poorly marked and you can find yourself driving the wrong way easily.

Golf staff wasn’t the friendliest, seemed a little pretentious for a course like this to be honest.

Overall, it’s a challenging course if you play from the blues, not sure about the whites. They don’t have black teeth.

Greens are unrelated and can be challenging.