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3.8
3052 Reviews (3052)
5 Stars
796
4 Stars
1223
3 Stars
573
2 Stars
293
1 Stars
167
Conditions
3.6
Value
3.7
Layout
4.1
Friendliness
4.3
Pace
3.7
Amenities
3.9
77.7%
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2264 out of 3052 reviews
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Average Rating
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4.1
301 Reviews (301)
5 Stars
118
4 Stars
112
3 Stars
47
2 Stars
17
1 Stars
7
Conditions
4.0
Value
3.9
Layout
4.1
Pace
3.8
Amenities
4.0
StaffFriendliness
4.4
83.4%
Recommend this course
251 out of 301 reviews
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3.9
469 Reviews (469)
5 Stars
152
4 Stars
195
3 Stars
70
2 Stars
34
1 Stars
18
Conditions
3.8
Value
3.8
Layout
4.1
Pace
3.8
Amenities
3.9
StaffFriendliness
4.4
81.4%
Recommend this course
382 out of 469 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Resort
Style Links
Par 71
Length 6288 yards
Slope 124
Rating 68.5

The Arizona Grand Resort (formerly known as Phantom Horse Golf Club) boasts a challenging golf course, blending desert target golf with traditional links, playing par-71 over 6,336 yards, and a 7,000-square-foot practice green with a bunker and chipping area for a pre-round tune-up.

After a round at Arizona Grand Resort, head to an onsite drinking or dining spot: there's Mexican food, and then there's Southwestern dancing, and then there's a sports bar so you can catch up with someone else's game indoors or outdoors on the patio.

The Arizona Grand Resort also offers several packages, ranging from stay-and-play to family deals to getaways for women to romantic suite packages, complete with breakfast in bed.

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Course Details

Year Built 1987
Golf Season Year round
Architect Forrest Richardson (1987) Brad Bartell Jack Snyder (1988)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
Clubs Yes
GPS Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range No
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Dress code Proper golf attire required.

Available Facilities

Conference Facilities, Banquet Facilities, Spa, Locker Rooms

Available Sports

Fitness

Reviews

3.8
3052 Reviews (3052)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 64
Patio Dining 54
Brunch 37
Course Challenges Include:
Elevation Changes 137
Bunkers 103
Water Hazards 91
This course/club is great for:
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 88
Locals 66
Advanced Golfers 61
This Course's Location is:
At a Resort 126
Convenient to the City 119
Near the Airport 93

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I Recommend This Course
5.0
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Previously Played

Great course, excellent value

Course is challenging and fun to play with a different style between the front and back nine.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Response from on 05/01/2017:
Thank you Brian for the feedback and five star rating! We are happy to hear you appreciate our course layout complexity and find it beneficial to your game! We appreciate your support and are happy you enjoyed your round with us. Thank you for stopping by Arizona Grand Golf Club and we cannot wait to have you back for an even better experience!
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Good choice

This is a good choice for intermediate players. Challenging but great for being in the middle of
the city. My game was off but I look forward to playing there again

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
2.0
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First Time Playing
Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Poor
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great layout! Slow play

I have played this course before and I really like the layout. I have expressed some concerns about the friendliness of the staff in the past but they has gotten better. Play was slow on this Sunday afternoon, however, with groups jumping ahead.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a month
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Amazing golf

This is one of the hardest courses I have played. There are many challenges but boy it was fun.
Our only comment was there was no Marshall on a Saturday and we were stacked up. Had groups in front of us sitting on the tee box just talking instead of teeing off!

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Played On
Reviews 10
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Past go to course not so much now

I have played this course for many years and have always been able to complete a round in 4 to 4.5 hours. On this day we were told there was a tournament and they had just began starting groups on the course about 45 minutes prior to our tee time so it should open up after the first few holes. The pace was good ok up until hole 5 and then seemed to start slowing down. By hole 8 we saw the starter out checking on progress and assumed the pace would get better but it did exactly the opposite and slowed down even more. By the time 4 hours had passed we were just finishing hole 14, and had 4 balls hit into us by the group behind while we were waiting for the group in front to finish on the green or while we were finishing on the green over the previous 5 or 6 holes. At that point it was nearing 7 pm and we decided to call it a day as we were not going to finish anyway. We went past the group in front of us anticipating finding more groups and did not come up on anyone until we got to hole 18 (3 holes out from them) where we waited for a 5 some to finish teeing off prior to heading to the clubhouse for the night. Obviously there was one group which was the problem and they were directly in front of us. AZ Grand is just not living up to their past standards of good pace of play and courteous golfers as we had normally experienced in the past.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Mislead

We were mislead from the first hole not giving us a heads up about the blind pond straight off of the tee. No descriptions of the w holes. Many blind tee shots with large slanted grades toward the water.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 4
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 189
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 250 Contributor
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

A different kind of golfing experience

I had never played this course before and was curious to see if the things I had heard about it were true. It turns out much of the rumors were right on, but not in a good way. Yes the layout was very different and in a few cases very difficult having no prior knowledge of the course. But that made the experience both fun and exciting as well as very frustrating and down right aggregating. The reason is there are many totally blind shots, many from the tee box. So you can easily get into trouble because you don't know where to hit your shot. And then hit awhat you think is a great shot only to find out it is in really bad place. Overall it was a mix of fun and frustration. BUT, the one thing that spoiled the entire day for me and my group was the insanely stupid and just plain ridiculous golf carts that are connected to GPS so that they won't allow you to drive them in certain areas. Yes I understand why you would want this. Some golfers don't know how to behave on a course and drive where they should not be. But come on... The GPS on the carts is so incredibly inaccurate that it literally stops the cart in areas of the course that are actually in play. This was incredibly annoying and frustrating. Also, the carts have a speed regulator that seems to be engaged all the time. It drove us all crazy because you could never get these stupid carts up to a normal speed. So for this reason only, I will never return to AZ Grand. It just isn't worth the aggravation.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 15
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 64
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Frustrating

Have played this course every year for 30 years and this was the worst experience we have encountered. Took close to 5 hours to complete, not one course marshal on site and EVERY water station was dry on a 95 degree day..Someone needs to get a handle on what they want the public to think of this place.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Fair
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Shocked

Been playing here for 30 years but did not have a good experience this time. Pace of play was brutally slow, almost 5 hours. EVERY water station on the course was empty on a 95 degree day. Never saw one course marshal the entire round. Will try the course again but this experience was very disappointing.

Conditions Good
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Poor
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 9
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Spectacular round

I had an amazing experience playing here!! I can’t wait to play again!!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Signage

Sinage was terrible finding the place. You have to CARRY your bags to dropoff. I would save play Raven or Legacy.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Fair
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 20
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

$30 course at best

Absolutely foul that they are charging $100 and more here. Construction on the first couple holes. Completely blind shots and no hole map at any tee box but you have zero idea where to aim if you’ve never played it.
However, none of that makes it what’s bad. What’s bad is the tee boxes were worse than paradise valley GC, which is a 1 star course and I’m dead serious. Tee boxes are terrible and the greens are bad too. Also took about 4 and a half hours to play and it’s 5800 yards. Pathetic. No wonder tee sheet is never full. Seriously should be 20-30 dollars

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Fair
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
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