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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture => Topic started by: Steve_ Shaffer on May 25, 2010, 10:43:03 AM

Title: Making a golf course "senior friendly" in Sun City area, AZ
Post by: Steve_ Shaffer on May 25, 2010, 10:43:03 AM

Tripp Davis is doing it in Sun City, AZ:


http://www.yourwestvalley.com/topstory/article_20aa2eda-da90-53ba-b361-9612550d3099.html

Title: Re: Making a golf course "senior friendly"
Post by: Steve_ Shaffer on May 25, 2010, 11:10:02 AM

The original Sun City has 8 golf courses- 3 "executives" and 5 regulation courses:

http://www.sunaz.com/golf/default.html

Also, there is also a daily fee course in Sun City:

http://www.suncitycountryclub.org/

Also, Union Hills CC is nearby:

www.unionhillscc.com

Sun City West has 7 courses- 3 "executives" and 4 regulation courses plus 1 private and 1 daily fee:

http://suncitywest.org/golf.htm

Also, the now semi- private Corte Bella GC is in SCW: www.cortebellagolfclub.com.  This is a very good course by Gary Panks.

I've played Grandview and Trail Ridge there. Both are very good courses.

Sun City Grand has 4 regulation courses: Desert Springs,Cimarron and Granite Falls  North & South

Title: Re: Making a golf course "senior friendly" in Sun City area, AZ
Post by: Mike Lacey on May 25, 2010, 01:13:58 PM

I believe Corte Bella is a Greg Nash design. 

Title: Re: Making a golf course "senior friendly" in Sun City area, AZ
Post by: Matthew Petersen on May 25, 2010, 01:26:03 PM

All of the Sun City Grand courses are also by Greg Nash. All are nice without being memorable.

There's also an even further out Sun City development called Festival with a Troon-operated course called Copper Canyon. Can't recall now who designed that track.

Title: Re: Making a golf course "senior friendly" in Sun City area, AZ
Post by: Steve_ Shaffer on May 25, 2010, 02:37:45 PM

Yes, Corte Bella is a Nash design. I confuse it with nearby Trilogy at Vistancia by Panks.

Sun City Festival- Copper Canyon is a Schmidt-Curley design and is managed by Troon: www.coppercanyongolfclub.com

Title: Re: Making a golf course "senior friendly" in Sun City area, AZ
Post by: Tom Yost on May 25, 2010, 04:41:39 PM

Nash and his now retired partner Jeff Hardin have had a hand in the development of most all of the Arizona Del Webb courses (Sun City, Sun City West).  Pretty good gig.