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| - I'd really like to give this place 5 stars. Despite all the recent reviews I've just read, I would if it was solely based on service. But this ultimately is all about golf and for me that was a 3 star experience.
After playing the last round of an annual golf trip here in '14, we decided to do a stay and play thing here in '15. We made our initial reservation only a few days after we played in '14. Apparently the guy who booked our deal bailed not too long ago and left no trace of our reservation. But the staff fully stepped up and honored all of it including letting us use a nice house instead of a condo that had since been taken off the rental market. They set us up with dinner three nights and went grocery shopping for us before we arrived. Overall they were very accommodating.
My main knock against Quintero is actually the course itself. It was in generally very good condition. The greens had a few blemishes (maybe a little disease or something?) and a large number of ball marks that people simply didn't fix but were still fast, firm and smooth. The bunkers sucked as they are essentially all hard pan which took a couple of days to fully figure out. Even then it was near impossible to actually stop the ball out of a bunker. But my biggest issue is simply that the course isn't that memorable. Sure, it's beautiful as so many desert courses are. And there's no housing around. But there's nothing really special. I can normally replay my round every night after I play, and can even recall some special rounds for much longer. I could walk around Pebble Beach tomorrow and place my ball where it was for each shot last July. Yet a couple of days after our trip I texted a guy a picture I took from the 9th tee, a hole I did remember from the first round I played in '14, and it wasn't until after I'd sent it that I realized there was another hole in the background. Yet I simply couldn't, and still can't, recall what hole it was despite having played it 4 times in the prior week. It's just another relatively short par 4 with bunkers guarding one side of the fairway and the desert on the other that plays to an elevated green. There must be at least 4 holes just like that. And then there are the downhill par 3s. They look good but there are 3 of them. Even the holes that are a bit interesting, like 3, leave you with a short iron to the green. I think the longest approach I had was an 8 iron but I had several 52 degree wedges. And I wasn't always hitting driver. Granted we were playing the Silver tees (our group had a very large range of handicaps) but it was just nothing special.
All that said, the only thing that would really keep me from coming back is the location. Just when you think you've hit the middle of nowhere you have another 15 minutes to go. There's truly nothing around. If I'm going to drive 45+minutes from Scottsdale, which is how we normally do our trip, there are better courses. My guess is that I'll be back maybe once every few years.
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