Forest Highlands Golf Club - Arizona, U.S.A.

Forest Highlands Golf Club, located south of Flagstaff, is not the type of desert course one expects to find in Arizona. The original Canyon Course, designed by Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish in 1988, is carved out of majestic ponderosa pines with the back nine running through the canyon. To make maximum use of the canyon and create a variety of holes, they devised a routing with six par-threes, five par-fives, and only seven par-fours. Ten years later, Weiskopf returned to design the Meadows Course on his own. It is located on higher ground. There are tranquil streams fringed with orange grasses running through the course and views of the San Francisco Peaks.

Desert Forest Golf Club - Arizona, U.S.A.

Desert Forest Golf Club is the unsung masterpiece of Robert "Red" Lawrence. Designed in 1962, Desert Forest was the first true desert-style course, the pro­genitor of all subsequent target-style designs in which there is no buffer between the distant fairway and the vast desert floor with its bristling armamentarium of pipes, spikes, and barrels of cactus-staghorn, agave, prickly pear, yucca, ocotillo, and saguaro. Desert Forest was built as part of the development of the newly founded town of Carefree, north of Scottsdale. Lawrence had moved to Arizona in the 1950s and designed a number of courses in the southwest, earning him the nickname of the Desert Fox. Born in White Plains, New York, in 1893, Lawrence worked early in his career for such legendary figures as Walter Travis in New York and the Philadelphia firm of Toomey & Flynn. Desert Forest also played an important role in the career of Tom Weiskopf, who is an honorary member of the club. Weiskopf first played the course in 1965, when he was 22, and was so captivated by the design and landscape that his round at Desert Forest contributed to his decision eventually to settle in Scottsdale and become involved in designing courses.