Talking Stick Resort & Casino

I took my son to this course for his birthday. He had just drove in from CA on his way to Texas. The course was in beautiful condition, the day was perfect and the staff was amazing. However, there are members there who definitely feel entitled to set the pace of play. On the 9th whole I decided for the first time in my day to try to re-putt a downhill putt to which was met with heckling from the 3 members. They were telling us we were a hole behind and needed to speed it up. I told them I payed for the course not to be rushed by them. However, I added some expletives to assist with letting them know how much they upset's me.Not only did that result in an altercation with one of the members but I managed to upset my son understandable so. The manager came out and informed me that we were perfectly fine with speed of play. I told them this one person who I had the biggest issue with had also told me to go back to where I came from. Which is so arrogant that honestly it was then I wanted to do something I'm glad I didn't do. Would I play the course again absolutely. It was in the end unfortunate and looking back should have just smiled and got a whole lot slower. But I didn't.

Great practice area. Greens and fairways in awesome shape!

I really like the layout of the course and the traps make it just tuff enough, but it's the greens that are the real challenge! Only a few uneven tee boxes but course condition is great, range is included. Finished in just over 4hrs, but was a stop and go pace, hard to get in rythm on this day.

Conditions of the course were good and pace of play was great

The sand in many of the greenside bunkers was extremely firm and tightly compacted. It made a normal bunker shot almost impossible. There is a barbed wire fence very close to the left side of a few of the greens on the front nine and there was no grass to stop a ball that missed the green by a few yards. The GPS on the cart stopped working on hole 11 and did not respond to the proper reboot of the system. We then had to guess at the yardage because the sprinkler heads had no yardage information. A staff member who was handing out cold water on the 15th hole was able to diagnose the problem as a dead GPS battery and was kind enough to swap out the battery from his cart to our unit. The clubhouse has been completely remodeled in the last two years and looks great, but given the substantial increase in the green fees, some of the additional revenue should have been used to fix the bunkers.

Other than getting slowed down to a standstill on14,then stopped on 18 because of a wedding,played pretty quick thru 13 holes.Didntget to finish as the wedding on 18 was going to keep on us on the tee box for 16-20 minutes.Never did see Marshall when we got slowed down to a standstill on 14.Starter was awesome.He sent us out 25minutes early.We had an original 3:06 tee time.Would have been tight getting 18 in.Loved the fast greens.Rolled very true.

Course conditions were very average for what was thought to be a decent AZ course.

Cart broke down on hole 7, and answer we received was “we are getting new carts next year”.

We did get a solid deal through the GN app, which was the only plus about the round. Would have been very unpleased if I had payed full price for a round here.

If you are coming from out of state, there are better courses than this.

One problem. We had to wait an extra 25 minutes for the golf cart. We weren't the only ones that had to wait. We were able to only get in 13 holes.