Desert Mountain Club and Apache Stronghold Golf Course, U.S.A.

 
 

Desert Mountain Club - Arizona, U.S.A.

Desert Mountain, a private golf community in Scottsdale, has a horn of plenty-108 holes of Jack Nicklaus Signature golf Renegade, the first of the Desert Mountain Club's six courses, is set up with two flags ticks on each green for players of different levels. The Cochise Course was the original home of the Senior PGA's Countrywide Tradition. Geronimo is a severe desert layout, with the par-three 18th requiring a tee shot over a desert canyon. Apache provides more traditional golf, with broader fairways and large greens. Chiricahua, named "the best golf course in Arizona" by the Scottsdale Tribune, serves up long views of the Valley of the Sun from the high elevations. Outlaw, the sixth and final of Nicklaus's creations, is bordered by the Tonto National Forest, with striking views of Four Peaks, Pinnacle Peak, and Superstition Mountain.

Apache Stronghold Golf Course - Arizona, U.S.A.

Apache Stronghold Golf Course is located in the austere desert wilderness of Arizona, guarded by the Chiricahuas, Aravipas, Superstition, and White Mountains. According to Apache legend, the Stronghold was a mystical haven in which the Apaches could pass unseen by their enemies. Located in the town of Globe, 90 miles east of Phoenix and 100 miles north of Tucson, the course is owned and operated by the San Carlos Apache Tribe as an adjunct to the Apache Gold Casino Resort. Designed by Tom Doak in 1999, the course exhibits his emphasis on fitting the holes to the natural features of the land, with careful shaping of the green contours. The broad fairways with bold cross bunkers are routed through secluded valleys, ridges, and across the many branches of the Gilson Wash that runs through the course, fretted with sage and mesquite trees. Apache Stronghold also offers desert variations on such classic Scottish links holes as the Redan and Principal's Nose.