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This is what a golf experience is supposed to be like! This is a one of a kind course. I had one of the best golfing days ever playing here. If you want pure unflitered intense harsh golf this is your course.

I can definitely see why this is such a love / hate course which is appreciated. Golf courses should not appeal to everyone. If you try to make everyone happy you make no one happy. And I was happy. While its detractors may state this is not a true links course
Who cares. Tetherow is Tetherow. It is a links course laid out on a seemingly harsh extreme unforgiving landscape. I love target desert golf. And this is extreme links target golf and it is awesome. No bumpbing and running here into the heavily protected elevated greens. Brutally difficult blind tee shots into rolling undulating fairways. Then follow with approaches into tucked pins on tiny slivers of greens protected by the most undulating greens of your life. The greens were the most challenging multi leveled undulating greens I have ever played. It took a few holes to adjust your focus to take into effect every break and dip of the greens. But there was a natural flow to the greens. I loved the putting challenge.

Once you walk down from the parking lot and get a view of the massive ballpark that is Tetherow it is awe inspiring. There was a recent thunderstorm so the conditions were softer and more playable than usual. Conditions were near perfect. Having only played here once is the only thing stopping me from saying the conditions were near perfect. Every tee box was lush and level. No dead spots in any fairways, no cart damage areas to bee seen

Greens rolled true and never bounced once. No one hits the greens so there are no ballmarks. Bunkers are natural and fluffy, yet compacted! Very easy to get out of.

The sightlines from the elevated tee boxes here are remarkable. The designer really does a great job of making every shot appear narrow and hopeless. You cannot miss anywhere here. And great shots get penalized if you catch the wrong slope. One of my favorite rounds of all time and a brewathtaking course. Easily top 10 course for me and would say it rounds out the top 5.
11 Likes.
Expectations and past experiences play a huge roll in the enjoyment of a round. My experience with Oak Creek is vastly different than most. My high school summer golf camp was held at Oak Creek. This was 16 years ago. What I remember is Pure as Pure can be Oak Creek. Wall to wall lush turf and beautiful fresh bark mulch. There was a time when Fazio was the most sought after golf course architect in the world. I have wanted to come back and play here as an adult. I saw this opportunity and jumped on it. No longer being a local, I was unaware Oak Creek had fallen.

The layout, bones, and experience of this course top class. The greens were nice and quick. Rolled great. Were soft and consistent. The staff, and seclusion are as good as it gets. It is a unique east coast style golf course oasis in the middle of vanilla urbanized Irvine. The grandnest of the fairways, sightlines, and bunkers is rare. There aren't courses around here that wind and flow with elevation changes like this course. The minimalist wispy bunker collors, and seemingly natural flowing waste bunkers here are not found in So Cal Courses. Quite unique

However, I want to provide a review of where Oak Creek is currently, not where is is headed, or what its bones or potential are. The weekend rack rate here is $185. I would have been really upset had I spent $185 with some of the correctable flaws of the course. The fairways are great. Very few brown spots but great coverage. I found the rough to be wildly inconsistent. As well as the slopes behind a lot of the greens were patchy and inconsistent. They would be great if they were let go, or if they were consistently mowed. They were in between.

A few of the tee boxes were bad. Like local muni bad. There was a hole in one where I almost tripped on. Some very severe slopes and ledges. Many had depressions and mounds. There was even a comical tee box location on a slope. While this may not seem like a big deal. For $185 this is just lazy and easily correctable in my opinion. No excuse. Tee boxes need to be flat on a high end course.

I was also really enjoying the round until I discovered the greenside bunker. Johnny stumbled into one and really struggled. And I thought he was over exaggerating, until I hit in them. This may be a teething process, but the sand was not compacted in the slightest. It was legit beach sand. Near impossible to hit out of with wild fried eggs. I attempted to walk into the bottom of a bunker and the sand collapsed into a sinkhole and I rolled my ankle quite bad. I'm 32 and in good shape not a clumsy old codger. I really feel like I shouldnt have to risk sinking into a sink hole of uncompacted sand walking into a bunker on a golf course. Especially a Tom Fazio $180 course.

I also really did not like the ginormous touch screen monitor in the middle of the cart

Its in nice shape right now. For $180 it has flaws. It sounds like the right GM was hired and with some small improvements this course should be back to a top notch golf course like it should be.
11 Likes.
Went out Friday night on Pinnacle with coworkers. We tried to walk on and didn't get out until 4. It was actually packed and playing slow. We cut back and flew then had a great time.

The course re-opened from maintenance and is in surprisingly good shape. The front nine was in excellent shape. The back nine hadn't recovered as well.

Greens were great. Perfect fast speed. Unfortunately a lot of the divots had burned out and were dead. So there a lot of brown spots and dirt spots from the divots. Aside from the visual look. Greens were great. Rolled well. Little dried out for summer to be expected.

Fairways weren't as nice. The divots are drying out and dying at this time so there's a lot of divot damage in collection areas. Some areas have dead dried out areas. But mostly great fairways this time of year.

Edges of the green complexes have dried out areas and patchy grasses. Burned, dried out yellow edges of bunkers. Typical summer conditions.

Bunkers are always great here. Tee boxes have dried out divots, yellow area.

I was surprised how great of shape the course is for this time of summer. An amazing course, but it is definitely Troon North with summer conditions.
9 Likes.
Played here Wednesday evening. Needed a golf fix and went off at 5:09. This place is cool. It caters to locals. They keep the club house open til 6 and even give a discounted after 5 tee time for $20. Most closes shut the club house at 5 and try to get you off the course at 7 maybe 7:30. Typically the cart guys will give you death stares when you come back late at other places. But here they are laid back. Want you to have a good time. It's a nice relaxed atmosphere.

That being said. The greens were bad. Without pulling in tourists this course has let the course go to summer conditions. It appears the greens were punch maybe a few weeks ago. There wasn't holes, but a residual sandiness and patchy dried out grass. The ball rolled okay but once it lost speed it wouldn't track. Very inconsistent from green to green. I had the ball stop in a divot 3 times on the lip. The first green is horrendous shape and few others were poor. But most were okay.

Fairways are going. A lot of brown and dried out areas. A lot of the tee boxes and around the greens had dead dried out areas. Nothing terrible. The course is in solid shape for a local course in the peak of summer with discounted green fees.

The course is fun though. A few holes are some of the funnest out here to be honest, just a poor layout and flow. With a few changed holes and a little more space this could be a solid course. It's actually a good test of your short game now with the dry firm conditions. 1st time I played I played conservatively and it was a day at the office. But I tried to overpower the course today and it punched me in the Jaw. There was a little wind, and there is not much room behind a lot of the greens. With the firm conditions and wind it didn't take much for a ball to bounce into OB noodle house. I also holed out from 79 so that always makes the round funner.

With managed expectations this is a fun round.
9 Likes.
Played here Saturday evening for $39. Had played the Faldo side twice thus far this summer. Credit to the starters they had steered me to Faldo indicating it's in the better shape. I chose to mix it up and play the Palmer side. Not anywhere close to the conditions on the other side.

It's obvious they are keeping Faldo in more resort condition for the guests (Scenically more enticing course) This side has been let go to summer conditions. Definitely good summer conditions though.

Greens were good which is the most important thing. A little dried out, with some dried out ballmarks. But great medium/fast speed. Good roll. Bunkers were fine. Consistent little thicker sand. Tee boxes were not the best. Fair amount of divots and even dead areas in some tees. Fairways mostly great, but there were ground under repair areas around a few greens and some dead areas in others. Visually looked poor, but good conditions for summer outside the dead areas.

The course layout is great. Great mix of holes and flow to the course. Numbers 9 and 17 and fun holes. It's a great layout in decent shape for summer.
7 Likes.
Played the Talon Tuesday night at 4:00 - Finished in under 3 hours. Snagged a $45 last minute online tee time.

After learning from Raptor that Grayhawk is over priced and over hyped (more for the social scene) I went into playing Talon with limited expectations after having one of the bigger let downs playing Raptor.

The staff here is some of the best. Top notch in all regards.
I was really impressed with the conditions. The grass is in great shape here. It was a tad more dried out but great coverage for summer. There are burned out and brown areas in the middle of some fairways and surrounding the green complexes. But those were the exception. Some of the tee boxes were a little dried out and brown around the edges. But excellent fairways and around the greens. The greens were great. More dried out and firmer but very much high quality greens 8/10. The sand here is awesome, the high quality crushed granite. Some bunkers could use more sand but you can always say that.

Really fun layout. Front 9 is standard high quality desert golf but nothing memorable. Back nine comes to life. Awesome layout around a ravine. Great variety of holes, fun risk reward options, great site lines, elevated greens, flowing bunkers, and rounded knobs around the greens. 17 and 18 didn't quite fit the course. But still fun holes. The holes are a blast to play and I loved every minute of it. Highly recommend playing for the right price.
8 Likes.
Been working on my game a lot and wanted to test it. Snagged a 6:20 tee time Saturday for $49.

I played like a drunk sailor and played with a brutally slow twosome for a 4.5 hour 2nd group off disaster, but the course was amazing.

Greens were perfect. Couldn't find any issues. Little slower than usually but most likely from having actual moisture. From tee to green everything was green, lush and near perfect.

Only minor flaws. Some yellow areas of grass around the edges of the turf. Sand is consistent but too thick in my opinion (Needs to be fluffier). Good amount of divots on the tees. Those were the only issues. Otherwise flawless brutal scenic golf at Quintero. Tough to match.
11 Likes.
Played here at 6:40 on the 4th of July. Been wanting to play here but its a tad further away so I figured the 4th would be a good treat. I was pleasantly surprised by this course. I would say it's a step up desert resort course in great shape.

They must water the heck out of this course but it is a deeper lusher green than most in the area. It's a nice fun wide course. Big greens. Big bunkers. Greens were medium speed. Cut low but not dried out rock. Very consistent bunkers and flat tee boxes. It does stand true to a desert course as the edges are very penal with many desert elements to navigate. But with 60 yard wide fairways you have room to maneuver. A mix of large elevated greens, and small heavily protected greens add the challenge. I would rate this as a great weekend round with friends or vacationing average golfers where you can bomb and spray it more than usual.

Really fun course in excellent shape.
8 Likes.
Played here first off on Tuesday. Finished in about 3.5 hours

Really fun course and besides the greens is in great shape. From tee to green very green and lush conditions. Very minor dried out areas nor many muddy areas For this time of year outstanding lushness of grass. Some of the tee boxes were slightly unlevel but nothing bad.

Sand was inconsistent. Texture was more coarse and needed more sand in the bunkers but not bad. Greens were almost recovered from a punch. The balls were rolling fair, the main issue was there greens were still a little shaggy and hadn't been mowed tight and rolled enough yet. Maybe a week or so the greens will finish healing and firm up and the course will be much more challenging and enjoyable.

Really fun track. Not too tight. Great conditions and a fun closing. Always worth a play.
8 Likes.
Played here at twilight with KC Leonard again Went off at 4:30 finished under 3 hours.

I loved watching the Cartbarnguys and wanted to play here. They recently finished the massive renovation of the clubhouse, ASU practice facility, and driving range. The amenities are awesome. Top notch club house, amazing staff, great open aired bar. While I didn't want to hit balls in 102 heat the driving range looks world class now.

The conditions were rough today, I was let down. The greens were scorched. Mowed way too short and firm and brown. Appeared some greens had some burrowing bugs leaving small dirt hills. They weren't fast but the ball won't stop on a downslope. Just keeps trickling. It appears they may have punched the greens earlier in the month which may help explain the condition. The greens were not good. Let's leave it at that.

Bunkers were consistent, consistently low on sand. The sand is dirty clumpy sand as well.

The fairways were nice. Firm conditions today so it helped the course play much shorter. We never felt the distance today from the tips except the par 3's . Papago has big boy par 3's from the tips 3 are 240+.

Aside from the damaged greens the main problem was the through the greens area of the course. Outside of the fairways there is a lot of bare dirt and patchy grass.

The course is a good layout and I bet in better shape it is a nice golf course. It's a full size championship course. You will have to hit driver on the par 4's and be able to play the doglegs. If I lived closer this would be a fun weekday knock around golf. But it is definitely over-hyped and pales in comparison to the other offerings if you are out of town.
10 Likes.
Played here last twilight with a special guest. KC Leonard is the current active armed forces golf club champion. He had a tournament upcoming here and I was more than happy to have a running mate.

We got out at 4:45 flew and saw 1 person and had the course to ourselves. Easily finished 18 with epic sunsets to close.

The course was even in better shape than when I played pinnacle a month or two ago. The course is pristine right now. Greens were a tad slower than accustomed too. Maybe rolling medium / fast here which is slow for this type of course. Absolutely rolling lush carpet greens.

Fairways were immaculate. Green as can be still, which is amazing this time of year. Bunkers and every other amenity was perfect as always.

The weather and conditions could not have been better.

I had to find ways to nitpick this review. There were some yellow areas on some of the tee boxes. Also there wasn't rough. Those are the only nitpicks I could fine.

The views from the closing here are unmatched. When you add the customer service, 36 holes, and prisitne conditions. You're foolish to play elsewhere. This is as best as it gets. If you were waiting for a time to play Troon N with awesome conditions / avoid the 110+ summer heat / and not spend $360 NOW is the time. Rare window of pre summer punching, reseeding pureness.
11 Likes.
Played here 7:00 Sunday morning - POP 4:30

I love playing here as it's a true test to see where your game is at. The few times I have been it does play slow as it is so difficult people struggle.

Greens were perfect. Had a little moisture from the morning so the chips had some check, and they rolled absolutely true. No bumps or dried out areas on these greens.

Fairways were great. No dry patches, just the colors turning for summer. A few fairways had some muddy spots from spinklers and divot damage but that getting picky.

The grass around the greens is getting dried out and dormant, the yellow and browns are coming in but very playabale. Visually the course is making the transition to summer, but is still in great shape.

Awesome track with always great prices for the locals.
10 Likes.
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