Golf in Maricopa Arizona
Southern Dunes is located in Maricopa AZ about 1/2 hour south of the Phoenix Airport. Nothing much surrounds it. It was founded as a men's only private club in 2002 and designed by Schmidt-Curly, with the help of Fred Couples It was purchased by the Ak-Chin Indian Community in July 2010 and is now managed by Troon Golf, and now open to the public.
Southern Dunes is 320 acres of rugged scrub desert and a sea of bunkers fairways and greens. The fairways can sometimes be a challenge to find. But the carts have outstanding GPS so its easy to identify the landing areas and the carries. They are more generous than they appear from the tee box.
Unlike most Phoenix area golf courses, there is not a cactus anywhere in sight. and one of the few courses in AZ that has a real cut of rough surrounding the fairways. Until a year ago they had 480,000 square feet of bunkers. They closed for renovation and in fall of 2014 when they reopened they had removed 83,000 square feet of those bunkers. (now there is approx 400,000 square feet). Make no mistake, these are designed to be penal bunkers, not directional. Most are deep and have challenging lips. The 105 bunkers they have, are large, to the point that I was surprised to learn that there were only 105 when I asked in the pro shop at the end of my round. If these bunkers are not punishing enough there is water on the course but only on #10 and #18.
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