The Wigwam Arizona

I’ve played all three Wigwam courses (Gold, Blue, Red) multiple times. Perhaps this time of year gets too busy and they can’t keep up, but the course and amenities are not well manicured anymore and for the price, I’d play other courses instead (like Verrado Founders or Victory courses) in this area.

The fairways were ok, I mean they are of course better than $60 courses, but I’ve played Verrado and Blackstone Countey Club for the same prices and Wigwam is two steps down. The greens are three steps down. All greens on all 3 of their courses have bald spots galore.

The bathroom had standing water flooded through feom a rain storm days earlier, but no excuses not to have pushed that water out the door.

The ball washers were broken on some holes.

Now, the practice facilities are great because they have multiple greens for short chipping by the driving range, and then they have two other greens for large chipping by the club house, which is awesome (not even blackstone and Verrado offer longer chipping ranges) and their driving range is nice.

How the course plays.. the Blue and Gold courses have lots of elevated greens so that can be challenging for many players, the speed of the greens is very slow every time I’ve played, and the greens do not break much at all despite their curves and humps. In fact, the only time you may see significant break on the ball, is if the green sits next to water. So you need to know the ball will break towards the water on that hole. I sank about a 60 foot putt and it was straight the entire time despite having to go over a few little bends and curves.

Some of their mini canals that run through the course have only small puddles of standing water in them. Perhaps that’s a seasonal thing, but it looks a little ugly. I seen a few small groups of fish trying to live out their last days in the little bit of standing water left. It was odd.

I used to love wigwam, played it weekly, but now I’ve switched and started playing Verrado Founders course more instead. I’d recommend the same. At least until the attention to detail improves on the turf, greens and amenities.

Oh and PS, hands down, Wigwam had the best chicken nacho you will ever have. Must try.

They also have USB ports in their golf carts, so I commend them on that. The workers have always been polite and respectful.

To me, I’d only play these courses anymore if I got a “deal” on the golf pass app, it’s not worth the $100+ anymore

This was not a desert course so the greens, fairways, and roughs were all grass and in great shape. Played the golf course in afternoon and barely got done by dark. Play was in the 4:30 range.

you can pretty much count on the wigwam courses being in decent to excellent shape and well run. this round did not disappoint. . we will be back

We really enjoyed the Blue course. It was shorter (Par 70) but in great shape considering the amount of play it seems to get. It is reminiscent of an older FL course - kind of tight, not too long and good greens. The staff was very friendly and we moved along well even with a full tee sheet.

Excellent condition for this time of year. Finished in 3 1/2 hours. Greens were tough but true. My only beef is with the limited food options at the turn. With two 18 holes cross crossing they could do well with a burger stand. Or at least prepared sandwiches.

Course itself is in great shape. Greens, fairways and boxes. For whatever reason, on this Sunday there were a large number of kids (young teens) out on the course. We had a group of 8 of them behind us, shouting back and forth to each other as we tried to tee off/shoot. They eventually ended up in our fairway coming up from the other direction and showed no consideration for getting out of our way or moving quickly (walked slowly the entire length of our fairway as we waited to hit our second shots once they passed). On 11, we ran into a group of 3 small children (and their parents) who came from no where - hadn’t seen them all day. The kids were very good, but when you drop a group in the middle of play, it slows things down significantly. We sat on each hole 15-20 minutes waiting to tee off, before eventually giving up on the round after 14 holes, all in all which made for what have should have been a very beautiful day, very disappointing (and expensive - I had my dad and 11 year old along on my tab). A ranger could have helped move things along.

very average municipal course. very poor layout. Shooting Gallery on many holes. Fairways not lush, mostly tight lies

I play the Wigwam courses every time I come to phoenix and I am alway impressed. From the pro shop staff, starter, beverage cart and the golf courses 5 Star

Enjoyable coarse. Pretty wide open and excellent for novice golfers.

course was wet with puddles from last nights rain.

Draining was poor

Greens were very slow from rain