Lives
San Tan Valley
Handicap
15-19
Age
55-64
Gender
Male
Skill
Intermediate
Plays
A few times a week

Review Statistics

Average Rating

3.5
3.5
Total 28 Reviews

Rating Breakdown

28 Reviews
5 Stars
7
4 Stars
7
3 Stars
9
2 Stars
4
1 Stars
1
Recommended Courses
23
Not Recommended Courses
5
Helpful Votes Count
1
Not Helpful Votes Count
0
First Review
12/10/2012
Last Review
03/29/2024

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San Tan Highlands

Played On 03/28/2024
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Don't go for the food!

Course was good ,new carts with GPS. Very pricey compared to 3 years ago. Restaurant is only open past 4 pm on Tuesdays and Fridays! Hard to understand restaurant hours if you have any reasonable level of customer service.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Poor

Quarry Pines Golf Club

Played On 03/11/2023
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Awesome challenging course

Back nine in the old quarry is amazing. Narrow fairways and lots of elevation change. Bring lots of old balls, you will need them. Miss the fairway and your ball is gone.
Only negative is two holes on the front nine parallel the interstate and is quite noisy.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great course, great condition

Very challenging course, each hole unique, if you miss the fairway, your ball is gone. Beautiful layout

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather

Nice well maintained resort style course

Had a free golfnow round so value was excellent. Probably would not return at the going rate of mid $100's for a couple of reasons outlined below. Well maintained fairways, tees, and greens. Excellent sand in the numerous bunkers. No water on this "north" course.

On the negative side, greens were very flat and typical resort style. Also, all the holes basically were the same layout so none really stood out. The need to do some rodent control as the place is literally crawling with gophers.

Conditions Excellent
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate

San Tan Highlands

Played On 12/02/2019
I Recommend This Course
Incentivized Review
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

In great shape except for the traps

One of my favorite courses, particularly the front nine. Course is in good condition with one big caveat, the sand traps. They have not maintained them and they are basically devoid of sand.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
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Commented on 12/03/2019

Thanks so much for the review. We will take a look at the sand traps. Hope to see you back here soon!

San Tan Highlands

Played On 10/23/2019
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Best condition this time of year

Best course condition I have seen this time of year. Nice steady pace, 3 3/4 hour round.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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Commented on 10/28/2019

Thanks for leaving us a review, we're glad you enjoyed your time at Johnson Ranch!

Superstition Springs Golf Club

Played On 04/30/2019
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great course, interesting and diverse layout

Haven't played Superstition Springs for a couple of years, forgot how great and diverse the layout is. Whole course is in great shape. Disappointed to see they have lost the lake on number 9. Used to be the signature hole in my mind. Very courteous staff and great spring value at $ 31.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging

San Tan Highlands

Played On 04/27/2019
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great 3 hour round

Only played J.R. periodically during the winter as 5 hour rounds seemed to be the norm. Now that the course is less busy have played several 3 hour rounds. Always have loved the layout particularly the front . Course is in best condition in awhile. Greens are in excellent condition, sandtraps are good and fairway grass is coming back nicely. A few of the teeboxes are still sparse but getting better every day. Best time of the year to play J.R.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 04/29/2019

Thanks for the 4-star rating, we appreciate you taking time to review us on Golf Advisor. We're glad to hear all our hard work isn't going unnoticed! Be sure to book another round at JR soon.

Lone Tree Golf Club

Played On 04/23/2019
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Previously Played

Reasonable for a $40 round

Practice area is good, great place of play, excellent greens. Bunkers were pretty good. The fairways and area around greens were scalped down to nothing. Lots of roll but I would prefer to be hitting off reasonable grass. All 3 water fountains claim to be RO filtered but water was terrible tasting.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing

Beautiful course

Very nice course. Lots of big mean sand bunkers. Sand was fairly hard but consistent including green side bunkers. Would have preferred soft sand at greenside. Greens were freshly aerated but had not been sanded so were actually quite fast and fair. No water at all, just sand. Fairways were perfect. If there was a negative it would be that all the holes were similar and there weren't any memorable holes or what you would remember as a signature hole. Played it under the golf now + program so price was not a factor. I would not consider it to be a $170 course but worth playing at summer rates

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent

Ocotillo Golf Club - White/Gold

Played On 04/16/2019
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

All good except the greens and some of the sand traps

Have played Ocotillo several times. Fairways were in excellent shape as usual. Greens were in poor shape, appeared to have lots of dead areas. May just be the transfer to Bermuda but have never seen them in this condition. Sand traps on the blue 9 were very hard packed, better on the white course. Good pace of play.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

Las Colinas Golf Club

Played On 04/15/2019
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Good condition, very good place of play

Good condition and quick pace of play. Course is fairly wide open and forgiving and scores well.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Fair
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
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Commented on 04/17/2019

Hi, thank you for the three stars and your feedback. We are happy that you found our course in good shape and had an overall good experience. We'll see you again soon.

The Links Golf Club At Queen Creek

Played On 04/03/2019
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

All good except the marshall and 5somes

Nice enough course but got stuck behind a group of 5. Lady course marshall should not be dealing with the public. Her only concern was that we were not pushing the 5 ahead of us. She said they were such wonderful golfers that they were not a problem. All this while one of them was so good he was playing from the red tees, thank goodness as at least 2 of them were hitting 125 yards at a time !

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Poor
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

San Tan Highlands

Played On 03/29/2019
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Love the layout but typically slow

Had a 1:15 tee time and typically they were 20 min late. Typical 5 hour round followed! Never saw a Marshall even once!

Like the course but tired of typical late tee times and 5 hour rounds!

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
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Commented on 04/01/2019

We're sorry to hear the pace of play wasn't quite up to expectations. We're working hard to ensure a pleasurable playing experience for all our guests, and we hope you'll give us another chance soon! Thanks for coming out to Johnson Ranch.

San Tan Highlands

Played On 03/23/2019
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Good conditon but terrible tee time management!

Due to too many experiences with 5 hour+ rounds at J.R. made sure this time we booked a 8:15 tee time. Even at that hour, they were running 30 minutes late to tee off! Person ahead of us had booked as a single but showed up with 4 so they "squeezed" in another tee time. Not sure how often they do this but 5 + hour rounds and running late is an every day occurrence.
That said , the course is a great layout and with the exception of some completely barren tee boxes on the front nine, it is in the best condition I have seen it in a long time.
Would like to recommend but only if you have at least 5-6 hours from your booked tee time, stay away!

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
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Commented on 03/28/2019

We're sorry to see your experience was less than ideal. Maintaining pace of play is one of our top priorities, and we're working hard to ensure a pleasurable experience for all our guests. Thanks for coming out to Johnson Ranch, we hope you'll give us another chance soon!

San Tan Highlands

Played On 01/28/2019
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Love the layout but typically slow

Love the layout particularly the mtn 9. Tee boxes are not in great shape. Tee times were running 30 minutes late and a 5 hour round. Unacceptable!

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
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Commented on 01/30/2019

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us - we truly appreciate your comments regarding the tee boxes and pace of play so we may share them with the appropriate staff for improvements. We do apologize for any inconvenience with the pace of play, and we hope we have the chance to welcome you back to The Golf Club at Johnson Ranch for a better round soon.

San Tan Highlands

Played On 11/09/2018
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

All good except for 5 hour round !

I like the course particularly the mtn 9. Only downside was a 5 hour round and we chose to not finish the last 2 holes due to the slowness of play. Marshall was on the course but not doing anything to help the situation.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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Commented on 11/12/2018

We would like to apologize for the slow pace of play while you were here at Johnson Ranch.

Toka Sticks Golf Club

Played On 11/07/2018
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Needs work

Course layout can be dangerous. Looks like they jammed the 2nd 9 inside the old nine. Sand traps have had no maintenance whatsoever. Very hard and clumbs of wild grass everywhere. Fairways are fairly good shape but shaggy after the overseed. Same with the greens. Wth the exception of 2 or 3 greens on the back nine, the greens are flat and not inspiring.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate

Ocotillo Golf Club - White/Gold

Played On 10/18/2018
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

As usual, a great course.

Great "after overseed" conditions. Will only get better with time but in great condition already.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Course in word - boring

All the holes seemed to be the same, nothing unique. Old style boring flat table top greens. Lots of stratigically placed sand traps but poor sand conditions. Place is overrun with gophers. At this price, they are catering to the convention goers at the hotel. Way overpriced for locals. Lots of nicer courses at half the price.

Conditions Average
Value Poor
Layout Poor
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Good
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