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4.2
1357 Reviews (1357)
5 Stars
879
4 Stars
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3 Stars
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2 Stars
32
1 Stars
18
Conditions
4.1
Value
3.9
Layout
4.7
Friendliness
4.6
Pace
4.2
Amenities
4.5
88.1%
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1273 out of 1357 reviews
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4.5
46 Reviews (46)
5 Stars
29
4 Stars
13
3 Stars
2
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2
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.5
Value
4.1
Layout
4.8
Pace
4.3
Amenities
4.3
StaffFriendliness
4.6
97.8%
Recommend this course
45 out of 46 reviews
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4.3
82 Reviews (82)
5 Stars
46
4 Stars
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3 Stars
5
2 Stars
4
1 Stars
3
Conditions
4.2
Value
4.0
Layout
4.7
Pace
4.3
Amenities
4.4
StaffFriendliness
4.6
90.2%
Recommend this course
74 out of 82 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Public
Style Desert
Par 72
Length 7258 yards
Slope 139
Rating 73.9

John Fought and Tom Lehman collaborated on the course at Verrado Golf Club, a voluptuous design that meanders through the old Caterpillar bulldozer proving grounds. It's up and down for 18 holes and that doesn't mean "chip and a putt." The course is good test with chances to score and a handful of memorable and scenic holes.

Where Verrado Golf Course will eat you alive is in the bunkers. Some bunkers are hard to carry, others collect wayward shots. But the fairways are wide enough to avoid trouble, and what appears to be the safe shot off the tee will often bring greenside bunkers more into play. So pick your poison.

While the back nine is far superior to the front, going out still has its fair share of memorable holes. A huge boulder 30 feet tall on the par-4 eighth jets out from the left side around which the fairway shapes itself. A perfect line from the tee box is to take the ball five yards right off its edge, but hitting the boulder is certain death by desert. The boulder was scheduled to crumble via dynamite, but stood up to the TNT and was deemed an immoveable object. Open and playable for all skill levels, the Verrado Golf Club is a sublime experience.

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Course Details

Year Built 2004
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Tom Lehman (2004) John Fought (2004)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes
Clubs Yes
GPS No
Pull-carts No

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Caddies No
Golf School Academy Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Indoor Practice Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Metal Spikes Allowed No
Fivesomes Allowed No
Dress code Collared shirt and bermuda shorts required. No denim.

Food & Beverage

Restaurant

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Meeting Facilities, Banquet Facilities

Accolades

Reviews

4.2
1357 Reviews (1357)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Patio Dining 65
Drinks 61
19th Hole Scenic Views 44
Course Challenges Include:
Elevation Changes 92
Bunkers 74
Forced Carries 60
This course/club is great for:
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 79
Advanced Golfers 72
A Weekend Splurge 49
This Course's Location is:
Worth the Drive 93
In the 'Burbs 37
Convenient to the City 30

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I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Previously Played

AVOID this course until greens are fixed - Absolutely horrible greens right now and they should be ashamed

Played this course on 3/42023 and what a disappointment. DO NOT WASTE YOUR $$. We played twilight rate but still not even worth that.........

I had played here a few years back and it was in excellent shape but the greens are now beyond terrible. The tee boxes are terrible also. The back 9 was not quite as bad as the front 9 greens but still this is ABSOLUTELY unacceptable when paying this kind of money. They are bumpy and diseased.

This course should be shut down until they fix this issue or make it known to the customers and offer a discounted rate (I still would have passed on playing these greens). I will not play this course again until this issue is fixed. I have a couple of buddies that live on the Victory course and I would have rather played that course twice instead of wasting the $$ on Founders.

Other than not letting you know about the greens, the staff was excellent.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
1.0
Previously Played

Greens

Awful greens right now. They should be embarrassed to charge this much. One of my favorite courses and I was surprised how bad it was

Conditions Average
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Poor
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 39
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Beautiful views

Booked this course couple of months before. Played the Founders course and enjoyed the experience a few years back. Started off the 10th hole and the greens were diseased and quite bumpy.. Spoiled the round. Paid full price and no pre-warning of what to expect by the Proshop except that we were starting on #10. It really was a disappointment after making the trip from Phoenix ( live in Toronto, Canada).

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 67
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 1000 Contributor
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

worst greens I've played on in the valley

After playing over 100 courses in the PHX area, Founders set the record for worst greens I've seen. Putts literally rolled like a whiffle ball to the cups... the poa is so bad I've played many temporary greens that putt truer. Such a shame as every other aspect of the course is fantastic. You definitely should not be charging full rates until you either fix the issue or more likely replace all of your greens. After driving an hour to Buckeye to play was pretty disappointed. Your practice greens are great so not sure what took place on the course but I like to play a real course ie tee to green. If you just enjoy swinging and don't care about score or putting it would be worth playing....

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 23
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great Course but need to improve greens and tee boxes

I have played this course several times and love the layout. Golf service upon arrival is always very good but generally find Proshop staff not overly service oriented.

The cart ladies, Marshalls and staff are always fantastic and the food service at the restaurant is great.

Unfortunately my lower than good or excellent rating is due to the very poor green disease or challenges they are having currently. Totally understand that these challenges occur on all golf courses but with prices at close to $190 USD this course is not worthy of this fee….given the shape of all of the greens and beat up tee boxes the staff and course management should post these issues for customer when purchasing green fees….. or at the very least offer a reduced price as this will be an issue for retaining customers in the future.

Also the 18th hole is a great finishing hole by water but would be great if staff could blow off all the bird poo from the resident birds every few hours as we had to contend with cleaning the green with our putters prior to putting.

Hope the course and management find this information constructive.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Very poor condition

I am from out of town and have played this course multiple times . This will be the last time. this course was in awful condition especially the “GREENS” and tee boxes. Definitely way over priced in a rip off for what the conditions were.! I have more friends coming to the buckeye area later this spring and will be sure to tell them not to waste there money!!!

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

Greens were not in good shape

We played the course in February and the greens were not well maintained. There was several holes with significant bumps in texture which affected putting, and hole 18 green was covered in bird droppings. Although we were warned of the wind there was no warnings or discount for the greens condition, when I brought it up at the end of the round to staff they didn’t seem to care.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
1.0
Previously Played

The greens on this course are the worst I have played in the past 2 years. This course should not even be open right now. The greens have a disease and have virtually died off. This was a premier new course. The only reason the staff got 4 stars the should be telling the customers about the condition of the course.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Great course

Greay vourse,but the greens were crappy....I would love to come back to play sometime.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
First Time Playing

Poor value for the money

The most important part of golf is the greens and putting, sadly this course did not allow for that part of the game.
It was significantly over priced for the poor quality of the greens. With poor greens should come a discount, if not the value and experience are not as expected.
Will we play it again, probably not and of course we will certainly not recommend it.
Too bad, the rest of the course and the cart service were excellent.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Bad Greens

Greens we’re in very poor condition. Worst greens played in the area in past 4 months.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 12
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
First Time Playing

Horrible greens !!!!!!

Beautiful course, but not worth the price if the greens don’t get fixed, it’s like putting on gravel bumpy all the way, call before booking to make sure the greens are fixed

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

You call these greens?

I've played this course on a regular basis for the past 14 years. This is a very well designed golf course and has the potential to be one of the best in the valley but the quality of the greens along with an overall lack of attention to detail make this course and very average experience at best. The greens are some of the worst I've played in the west valley. They look nice but putt like a mine field and your ball rolls like it's in a pinball machine. The general condition of the course has has continually deteriorated over the last two years but prices have continued to increase. Not sure if that's the result of the new management company, lack of budget, or the quality of the staff.

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Always enjoy The Founder’s …

Played as a two with a local friend (visiting from Michigan) and although we were behind a foursome we didn’t have any significant waits - played through them on 15.

Greens were bumpy compared to past rounds and a handful of tee boxes were a bit beat up. Greens fees were okay in that the Waste Management Open and Super Bowl are this weekend.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Beautiful Course!

Absolutely beautiful course! Layout was wonderful, pace of play was great! Conditions of fairways, tee boxes, sand traps were great! Only criticism is that some of the greens were bumpy and a little thin, but we did play the first of February. Great track, would recommend for sure!

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Greens in bad shape

Not like I remember them. Balls bouncing toward the cup?…….some kinda fungus! And I recommended the tee time. Very disappointing 😟

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