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Desert Mountain Club

Scottsdale, AZ
🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴5/5 grail
Designed by Jack Nicklaus  ·  4.5★ players
✈ PHX 28 mi · Phoenix 28 mi
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Why it’s a grail

Home to six Jack Nicklaus signature courses, Desert Mountain Club is an acclaimed private golf community set amidst the stunning Sonoran Desert.

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About the course

Desert Mountain Club is a highly acclaimed private golf community situated in the Sonoran Desert landscape of Scottsdale, Arizona. It is renowned for its unparalleled collection of six championship courses, all designed by golf legend Jack Nicklaus. The club offers a unique desert golf experience with dramatic mountain and desert vistas. Its championship pedigree includes hosting the PGA Tour Champions' season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship multiple times, alongside a USGA national championship.

Course timeline

  1. 1987Opened Renegade Course
  2. 1988Opened Cochise Course
  3. 1989Opened Geronimo Course
  4. 1990Opened Apache Course
  5. 1999Opened Chiricahua Course
  6. 2003Opened Outlaw Course
  7. 2007Hosted the U.S. Senior Amateur
  8. 2014Hosted the Charles Schwab Cup Championship
  9. 2015Hosted the Charles Schwab Cup Championship
  10. 2016Hosted the Charles Schwab Cup Championship
  11. 2019Opened No. 7 at Desert Mountain Course

Player reviews

Google 4.5★ · 214 ratings
5★ · Jehily Lopez · 4 years ago

First let me start with my not so favorites. 1. On our first night we went for a walk to see the start and some people (not guest I’m guessing) came into the site screeching their tires, making noise, screaming and trying to scare us, mind you this was at almo

5★ · Paul E Sunday · 4 years ago

Amazing golf course. We played Chiricahua course. What a nice track. Rough is tough. Thick Texas blue grass on outside fairways and off greens. Nothing in town like it. We struggle when in it. Great views and scenery tucked up in this area of North Scottsdale

5★ · Grady Roberts · 9 months ago

What do you say about one of Arizona's greatest communities. 7 golf courses, each with their own personality located in the foothills of the Sonoran desert. Its private and very exclusive, which keeps the public from experiencing this beautiful gem, but if you

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