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.