This is one of the most beautiful desert golf courses I've played! It is without a doubt a humbling course and the surrounding desert has created quite the residence for many of my golf balls. The grill station at the turn offering burgers and brats with a huge assortment of condiments was a very nice touch to the experience!
This is the definition of target golf. For the most part, this course has wide fairways with some room to spray the ball and I may have just been having a bad day, but it sure seemed like I was making a large golf ball donation!
The fairways were the best I've played on down here in the greater Phoenix area, considering it was the end of May. The first and second cuts of rough were very easy to play out of and were very forgiving if you wanted to hit an iron. I did feel that the greens were a little burnt from the sun, but were overall in pretty good shape and rolled true. They were extremely fast as one would expect on a course of this caliber.
I couldn't get over how bad of shape the bunkers were. Normally I wouldn't complain and after one miserable thin shot would learn to try and pick it clean the next time I end up in a bunker. Since there are so many bunkers that come into play on this course it needs to be a priority that they are in great shape, especially around the greens. These bunkers were laced with large rocks and had zero sand to get under the ball. Playing ping pong between traps over the extremely fast greens really took away from my overall experience. I hope this was just a mishap.
You win this time Quintero. I will be back for revenge and I hope to get some of my golf balls back while I'm at it!!!