I played early on Sunday 2/9, my first time at this course. I was paired with a friendly couple on the Resort course, and played the white tees. The Sunday skins game was getting ready to go out on a shotgun start on the Legends course, the staff handled the chaos well, and any confusion on my part about where to go/what to do to get set up on a cart and off to the tee was quickly resolved.

On the course, small elevated greens seems to be the theme, most seemed to require a half to a full extra club to reach. The greens did seem to be what I could call "grainy", with big differences in speed when putting in one direction vs. another on an otherwise flat area. They were a little on the slow side in general, but rolled smoothly and looked great. The fairways had some thin lies, but no major faults. Of course the overseed here is not as plush as what you might find at more expensive courses. I was only in two bunkers and the sand was in good condition.

POP was 4 hours, waiting on the foursome ahead of us on most shots, several open holes ahead of them and no interest in letting us through. Otherwise we probably would have been done in 3:15-3:30 along with the group behind us. By the time we got to the last few holes, I saw multiple groups waiting on the tees on some of the first few holes. From other reviews I saw that POP was often a problem at this course, which is why I decided to play it very early in the day.

The course seems like it would be an easy walk, the only long green-tee trek probably being 16 green to 17 tee, but I saw zero walkers out there.

I paid $75 booked through the course's website as a non-resident. Looks like the rate is normally $89 weekend mornings, but if you book as a single or twosome into a time that 1-2-3 others have already booked into, the site gave a discount to $75. The rate did include breakfast, lunch, and a couple of drinks. The breakfast wasn't my style of food so I skipped it, the buffet-style lunch was fine. They do post the daily menus for the free food on their website.

All in all, this course offers a great value in what is an expensive area for golf this time of year. I enjoyed playing it, even though I didn't seem to bring my "A" game.

I played Foothills on New Year's Day 2020, around 10:50am on a teeoff.com deal time for around $45 after promo code and tax. Paired with three other randoms on the same deal. POP was about 3.5 hours, the course was not busy at all, didn't really catch anyone until the last few holes. Carts were fairly new, course does appear walkable but with maybe 2 longer green-tee hikes, and I did see a twosome walking.

This course and its "sister course" nearby, Ahwatukee CC, have a bit of a local reputation for being scruffy and water-starved under their current owner, who also owned the two other courses in Ahwatukee that closed down in the past few years (Club West and Ahwatukee Lakes).

The tees, fairways, and greens were actually in pretty good condition. One member of the group said he plays the course often, and it is in the best shape he's seen it in after some serious conditioning problems in the past few years. The cart attendant had also mentioned they basically lost the greens last summer. They seem to have made a nice comeback. That being said, everything more than 15 yards off the fairways just looks awful and scruffy, even the retaining walls bordering the homes on the course all have peeling/missing paint, are falling apart, lots of weeds, etc. The dormant rough also does not extend very far out from the fairway on most holes and turns into sandy/weedy areas. These off-fairway conditions don't bother me much, but I know they do turn off some people, especially if paying winter rack rate of $70+.

The greens were deceptively fast, and rolled smoother than their appearance would have suggested. One thing I did like about the conditioning is that they left the dormant rough cut fairly high around the greens, so one could easily get under the ball and hit high lofted pitches; most local courses shave these down (or they get matted down from traffic) and are like hitting off a sidewalk.

I'd play it again when in the area but probably would not make a special trip from my home 40 minutes away.

My first review after lurking on this site for years and finding a lot of helpful information, so it's about time I give back some.

The course conditions were pleasantly surprising. Apparently this course is managed by OB Sports for the city of Tucson, and OB has been doing a great job with some of the Phoenix muni courses I usually play during the past 2 years. Fairways had a great overseed, played firm, greens were fairly smooth and fast, sand was fine. Typical dormant Bermuda rough. Really nothing to complain about with conditions for a muni, though the fairways near the ponds were completely covered in goose turds.

After a glance at the scorecard, I had decided on playing the yellow tees (5,843 yards) due to it being cold, and the whites (6391) having 4 par 4 holes at 420+ which usually isn't enjoyable for me. The yellows gave me some good variety, except the 3 of the par 3 holes played about the same (155-160ish). There is some elevation change throughout the course.

I originally had a tee time around 8:15. Staff member said the area the course is in usually gets much colder overnight than the rest of the city. Accordingly, there was a 45 minute frost delay. Due to cancellations, the starter was able to move me ahead, joining two other walkers as the second group off. The first group left us in the dust after few holes, and we finished 18 in about 3:10 as a walking threesome. Very easy course to walk.

Overall, nothing particularly memorable here, just decent affordable walking golf. The course has a small snack bar-type restaurant, and a beverage cart was out on the course.