We played the Faldo Course. This is an amazing course with many, many huge challenging bunkers and crazy bowl shaped greens with different grades..really impressive. Beautiful backdrop/setting of famous mountains of the Phoenix area. Impressive GPS systems in the carts that let you know where your ball is located as well as other carts. This is a very challenging but FUN course...we can hardly wait to play the Palmer course. If you ever visti Scottsdale area...WILDFIRE IS A MUST PLAY!!!!!

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Off the charts, highly recommend staying at the resort of villas...excellent accomodations.

6/15/05 -
Palmer course played late afternoon on super-twi rate bargined by my hotels concierge,$30. Course was empty made it around in 2-1/2 hrs. fun yet challeging and very playable.
Course was in great shape as was the practice areas.

Customer Service

ok, don't blame them I arrived at 5pm and they probably just wanted to go home.

Due to overseeding the practice facility was not available, not even nets to hit into. Unacceptable at those prices.

Played in October, 2003, the Faldo course. The Palmer course was closed for overseeding - which, by the way, you need to check for in October-November in Arizona. LOTS of courses closed for 2-3 weeks, so call ahead to make sure courses you plan to play will be available. This was a great course - challenging but fair, and, most of all, a course that makes you think. You may hit driver off most tees, but even then you need to think about where you want to try to place or shape your shot. Although there are plenty of bunkers and waste areas there are lots of different shots to play around the greens. Price was typical Scottsdale resort - $125 - which I thought was high (coming from North Carolina) until I checked around and saw plenty of $150 and $175 fees for other resort courses. The course is flat, but views of surrounding mountains are always present, and the desert flavor is distinctly there.

Customer Service

Decent but perhaps not quite up to best resort standards - we weren't advised that there would be no practice facility available (see above).

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The resort itself (JW Marriot Desert Ridge) is fabulous and again pricey but in line with other Scottsdale resorts.

Greens. Fun to putt. Ball rolls true. No hidden breaks that push the ball away from the hole. Staff extremely courteous

Been back for 2 months...haven't thought of any weaknesses yet....go play this course.

Great desert course. Went on a 4 day trip with a couple of golf buddies. Never played this one before. I guarantee you, we'll play it again. Great desert layout, tee boxes, fairway, greens all excellent. Even got yardage book, divot repair tool, and ball marker. Played for $40 in mid september. Looking forward to trying the Faldo course

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Fantastic

Course layout
Greens
Fairways

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I just returned from a spectacular 4 day golf excursion, courtesy of my wife, for my birthday. We played 6 courses in 4 days: Talking Stick, Las Sendas, Sun Ridge Canyon, Eagle Mountain, Wildfire and Gold Canyon (Dinosaur). Please take the time to read all my reviews.

This is a very good course. The views were excellent, the conditions were perfect and the price ($60) on a Sunday morning was very reasonable. The only complaint that I have was the pace of play. We teed off at 7:30 and did not finish until 12:30. The Marshal was basically trying to speed up the pace but you had alot of first timers who were playing from the wrong tees. Very straightforward and forgiving playing from the back tees(not the tips). Staff was helpful and polite. An excellent value and should be played to be appreciated. Shot an 80.

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Good Staff

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