Links Living: Trilogy at Verde River
A new residential community is taking shape in northeast Scottsdale and golf, although the centerpiece, will be just one of many activities Popular as Scottsdale is, there hasn’t been a new community in the northeast corner of the “Valley of the Sun”—nestled against the three million acres of Tonto National Forest but only 20 minutes […]
Trilogy at Verde River, Scottsdale
A new residential community is taking shape in northeast Scottsdale and golf, although the centerpiece, will be just one of many activities
A Golf Vacation in Scottsdale
In the winter of 1888, army chaplain and Civil War hero Winfield Scott paid $1,600 for a 640-acre tract east of Phoenix in the Salt River Valley. The same year, nearly a continent away in Yonkers, just north of New York City, Scotsman John Reid established Saint Andrew’s Golf Club, generally acknowledged as the birthplace […]
Desert Forest Golf Club
Just because a golf course is in the desert doesn’t mean it has to be a giant sandbox. Desert Forest, about 30 miles north of downtown Phoenix, looks nothing like the “target golf” courses that visitors equate with the Southwest. Although only 67 of its 165 total acres are turf, Desert Forest is grass from […]
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort
When you think of Arizona and golf, you usually think of Phoenix/Scottsdale. Tucson typically gets overlooked, which is a shame since there are a number of fine resorts there, including The Westin La Paloma and Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain. Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Loews Ventana Canyon is another of Tucson’s finest and definitely worth considering for your next golf trip. The stay is very good, but the play is even better.
TPC Scottsdale Renovation
Tom Weiskopf won’t be hounding PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem any more. Now that his renovation of the TPC Scottsdale has been completed the original co-designer’s long campaign to update the Arizona layout is over. “I have written many letters to him over the past dozen years talking about what this course needed to do […]
Grayhawk Golf Club, Arizona
In an area known for high-end experiences, Grayhawk Golf Club set the standard for country-club-for-a-day facilities when its first course, Talon, opened in 1994. Tom Fazio’s Raptor opened the following year. Together, they pack a one-two punch worthy of Muhammad Ali. So do the service and amenities, which rival those of a top club. Inside the grand stone […]
Desert Forest Golf Club, Arizona
Any conversation about golf’s great visionaries ought to include the names Tom Darlington and K.T. Palmer. Never heard of them? That would probably suit Messrs. Darlington and Palmer just fine, as the founders of Desert Forest Golf Club seemed more intent on relaxation than recognition. To wit, in the early 1960s they dubbed their […]
