The McCormick Ranch Golf Club has two outstanding 18 hole golf courses and is similar to what you'd find on the east coast and in the Midwest. These two courses have all of the traditional features: sand, water, mature trees and long drives off the back tees.

The Palm Course at the McCormick Ranch features 10 water holes and, as its name suggests, many large palm trees. Number nine on the Palm course was selected as one of "America's Top-18 water holes" by Golf Illustrated magazine. Other recognized awards include one of "America's Best Golf Shops" by Golf Shop Operations, the National Golf Foundation's 'Public Golf Achievement Award' and Meeting and Conventions magazine's "Gold Tee Award." Tournaments include the Arizona Open, Motorola Open, Arizona Amateur Stroke-Play Tournament and many Southwest Section PGA and amateur events.

Visiting McCormick Ranch Golf Club will take you on a trip back in history, showing what golf was like in Scottsdale in the less glittering era of the 1970s before the explosion that occurred in the upcoming decades.

The McCormick Ranch Golf Club has two outstanding 18 hole golf courses and is similar to what you'd find on the east coast and in the Midwest. These two courses have all of the traditional features: sand, water, mature trees and long drives off the back tees.

McCormick's Pine Course has mature pine trees and is a bit narrower than the Palm.

Both the Pine and Palm courses lie next to each other at McCormick Ranch, where Arabian horses and Angus cattle roamed decades ago. Both were built in the early 70s by Desmond Muirhead, a British designer who claims to have dubbed the term "golf course community" and is oft referred to as the "mad scientist of golf." Both courses are nevertheless very straightforward, yet surprisingly difficult.