Faldo at Wildfire Golf Club at Desert Ridge Resort
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Faldo Championship Course at the Wildfire Golf Club measures as long as 6,846 yards, depending on which tees you're shooting from, and lies on 174 acres and features some differences from the average desert-themed golf courses. Faldo offers abundant fairways, big bentgrass greens and tee boxes, as well as the golf course's neighboring mountains, century-old saguaro cacti and 106 sand bunkers - which remind golfers of Aussie sand-belt golf courses, which gives it a magnificent locale for golfers.
Wildfire Golf Club is much-feted: When the Faldo Championship Course opened, the Arizona Republic selected hole No. 2 among the valley's 18 best. The golf course received recognition among the 2006 Travel & Leisure Golf's "World's Best Golf Resorts" for family getaways and in the 2006 Conde Nast Traveler rundown of the "Top 100 Golf Resorts in North America." These are in addition to the Gold Tee Award from Meetings & Conventions Magazine.
Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
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Tournament | 71 | 6846 yards | 72.3 | 132 |
Champinoship | 71 | 6467 yards | 70.5 | 126 |
Championship (W) | 71 | 6467 yards | 76.9 | 132 |
Regular | 71 | 6016 yards | 67.7 | 118 |
Regular (W) | 71 | 6016 yards | 74.4 | 126 |
Forward | 71 | 5245 yards | 64.8 | 113 |
Forward (W) | 71 | 5245 yards | 70.0 | 116 |
Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
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Black M: 72.2/132 | 411 | 408 | 164 | 452 | 389 | 350 | 220 | 341 | 534 | 3269 | 460 | 547 | 478 | 360 | 214 | 607 | 314 | 177 | 420 | 3577 | 6846 |
Blue M: 70.5/126 W: 76.9/132 | 395 | 402 | 155 | 413 | 380 | 341 | 180 | 323 | 497 | 3086 | 441 | 527 | 454 | 347 | 187 | 570 | 298 | 160 | 397 | 3381 | 6467 |
Blue/White M: 69.2/123 W: 75.3/128 | 395 | 350 | 155 | 398 | 380 | 341 | 167 | 323 | 497 | 3006 | 421 | 527 | 428 | 310 | 167 | 522 | 298 | 160 | 377 | 3210 | 6216 |
White M: 67.7/118 W: 74.4/126 | 375 | 350 | 135 | 398 | 360 | 315 | 167 | 293 | 477 | 2870 | 421 | 508 | 428 | 310 | 167 | 522 | 277 | 136 | 377 | 3146 | 6016 |
White/Red M: 65.4/115 W: 71.3/122 | 317 | 297 | 135 | 365 | 299 | 315 | 116 | 293 | 442 | 2579 | 390 | 459 | 363 | 251 | 123 | 485 | 277 | 136 | 330 | 2814 | 5393 |
Red M: 64.8/113 W: 70.0/116 | 317 | 297 | 89 | 365 | 299 | 287 | 116 | 268 | 442 | 2480 | 390 | 459 | 363 | 251 | 123 | 485 | 232 | 132 | 330 | 2765 | 5245 |
Handicap | 7 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 12 | 18 | 10 | |||
Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 35 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 36 | 71 |
Handicap (W) | 13 | 9 | 17 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 8 |
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Plenty of BUNKERS Folks ! Photo submitted by Marky3PuttzV on 03/17/2020
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Great facilities Photo submitted by GREGCGOLFER on 07/30/2017
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Beautiful Desert scenery Photo submitted by GREGCGOLFER on 07/30/2017
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Faldo Hole 4, Par 4 (birdie) Photo submitted by vrob008 on 08/18/2016
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Photo submitted by Dharmesh on 06/02/2013
One of the most enjoyable rounds of golf I have experienced in over 25 years of playing the game. My wife and I were as if we were members. The course was in excellent condition. Great design (Faldo) pace of play was great. Wonderful
Great course , good shape , nice views
It was well worth the money , great course , well kept , great service !
Nice course and friendly staff
I was a single golfer playing this course for the first time and the staff managed to put me with a 3 ball which was good as I hate playing on my own. Practice facilities are excellent and it's easy to warm up with range balls and putting greens. Golf buggy was equipped with a GPS system that worked well and gave accurate yardages. Pity it locked me out a few times when I was nowhere near the green!
It's a pricey course for sure but as long as you play conservative golf you will find it relatively easy to shoot par. Keep out of the bunkers as they are huge.
The course layout is OK but some of the pin positions were evil. I guess the Greenkeeper was in a bad mood that day.
good course and challenging
faldo wildfire has a good layout, lots of sand traps, good greens and good bunkering . front 9 was 2 hours. back 2.5, little slow.
Tuesday Golf
Very solid course, everything is right in front of u from the t boxes so able to comfortably hit the proper t shots based on hole design. Conditions were top notch especially greens and bunkers. Greens are heavily guarded by sand so being your beach toys. Bunkers are deep
A really fair test for all levels. My playing partner who struggles with forced carries and accuracy was able to keep his ball on the course for the most part and legitimately broke 95, so very playable
Tuesday afternoon After WM Open Faldo
Had a great round for a Tuesday afternoon. Very busy course, 2:00 teetime, was done in 3 and a half hours. Fairways were immaculate. Greens ran true at a nice speed, where you could actually make a stroke. Layout challenging but fair. Lots of sand everywhere. Know your distances to bunkers off tee and you will be fine. Had a great day, won 11 skins from my buddies made round that much later.
Wildfire-Faldo
Great course, wide fairways, pace of play was great because tee times were spaced at 7 or 8 minutes.
My only delta was that the sand traps were mostly small pebbles and very thin.
Course condition
Course was great, however one issue with a few of the greenside bunkers, which had little to no sand base at the bottom of these bunkers. Given that one of the features of the course is the bunkering, the bunkers should be more consistent. Thanks.
Sand Traps Galore
Very well laid out course with over 100 sand traps. Course is very well maintained and a good test of golf.
Price to play is a bit on the high side for this course and club rental is way overpriced.