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Lookout Mountain Golf Course

The Pointe Golf Club on Lookout Mountain, just outside of Phoenix, offers visitors like you a surprising challenge as it combines the traditional golf course aesthetic with rugged desert terrain.

Located in the heart of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, this 18-hole, par 72 course rolls out over a series of exquisitely landscaped slopes edging along the side of an impressive mountain hill formation.

Featuring wide open fairways that combine with the desert complexity of, well, surprise at every turn, many golfers will experience due frustration before finding out how rewarding this course can actually be.

It's one of the favorites among golf pros around here, and can be found to provide a real diversion for those seeking originality of form and grace in a golf course destination.

Indeed, this amazing course provides a setting that gives the strange, yet refreshing sense of being in the middle of nowhere. Drive a shot over one of expansive fairways here and be overcome by the amazing sense of eternity while your ball flies through the nothingness of the open blue desert sky.

You'll also find a driving range, restaurant and snack shop at this elegant Pointe Golf Club on Lookout Mountain.

Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort
11111 N. 7th Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85020
(602) 866-6356

Phantom Horse Golf Club

Another fascinating golf course near Phoenix will deliver any avid golf player the trial, tribulation and ultimate reward that seems to be so characteristic of Arizona golfing. Indeed, if there's anything to be said about the Phantom Horse Golf Club, it's that is has personality.

But personality is just what's so great about this course. Spanning 6,336 yards of pristine lakes and rolling green hills, this par-71 series of exquisite links and fairways is truly a diamond in the desert rough.

It's the challenge that pros and beginners alike come here to experience, and you'll find plenty of it. But unlike other golf courses, it's really quite hard to get too frustrated here.

To understand why, just consider the scenic nature of this fine golf course. In the midst of an incredibly calm lake, the impressive signature green emerges as an island that will awe you with its subtlety and grace. And while in the middle of the course you'll find excellent features such as this, it's almost as if the best has yet to come.

That's because the practice green alone encompasses 7,000 square feet, accompanies the chipping area and sand bunker that allow for practice shots as far as 120 feet. In addition, you'll enjoy all of the convenient amenities that this luxury golf resort has to offer.

Phantom Horse Golf Club
7777 South Pointe Parkway
Phoenix, Arizona 85044
(602) 438-9000

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort and Golf Club

Not sure whether you like your desert golfing in the canyons or the mountains? To find out, come to the stunning desert of the American Southwest. Just outside Tucson Arizona, you'll discover two championship golf courses designed by the expert hands of Tom Fazio, a visionary in the field of golf courses development.

While one of the exceptional courses at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort curves its way through a mysterious canyon gorge, the other sidles up toward a breathtaking piece of the Catalina Mountain range, the likes of which you can only experience in person in the incredible state of Arizona.

Stroll across the lush green fairways of either of these exceptional places to golf. You'll see that the pleasure of playing here is abated only by the spry challenge handed to experts and beginners alike.

With a decent par and an extensive range, each 18-hole golf course will deliver a rousing game of golf.

And no matter whether you golf in the mountain or in the canyon, you'll feel as if you've stepped back into the ancient time when Native Americans inhabited the land, and the spirit of majesty and wonder was replete throughout the earth and air alike.

The authentic and styled architecture of the resort doesn't do anything to dispel this sense of historic wonder-it looks just like the exotic buildings of the Hopi villagers in their hay day.

But despite the charm of past spirits, this fine resort golfing destination does not skimp on the amenities. In addition to all of the fine conveniences that a luxury and adventure resort has to offer, golfers here love the private clinics, the practice greens, beverage carts and the fact that the resort lobby is just footsteps the both golf courses.

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort
7000 North Resort Drive
Tucson, AZ 85750
(520) 299-2020

Raven Golf Club Resort

When golfing in the pure heart of the Arizona desert region, there is no game more amazing than those you'll experience at the Raven Golf Club Resort. That's because this championship course for pro and beginning golfers alike offers up the best in lively challenge as well as enjoyable scenery.

Golfing at the Raven, you'll not only improve your game, but you're likely to get to know Arizona a little better. That's because the Raven, located just outside of Phoenix, Arizona is a veritable gem amidst the ruddy plains of this American desert treasure.

Indeed, it's the American Southwest, almost Martian in its complexion…and yet this singleness of form is broken by the lush green fairways majestically ambling about the natural slopes and outcroppings that the 7,078 yard Raven Golf Course cozily snuggles up against.

During your game on this par-72, 18-hole course you'll view the austere skyline of Phoenix in the distance while enjoying the cooling and graceful effect of the innumerable pine trees surrounding this amazing place to golf. Full of surprises, challenges and unbelievable rewards at every turn, you won't regret unforgettable experience that golfing here provides.

Refresh yourself after - or during-your golf experience. Here you can enjoy beverage carts and other amenities such as you would expect from high end golf course.

Raven Golf Club at South Mountain
3636 East Baseline Road
Phoenix, AZ
(602) 243-3636

Dove Valley Ranch Golf Club

Think of desert cactus plants pointing up straight toward the sky. Think of a deftly placed sombreros perched atop one of these plants?now think of miles of these desert gems spreading out in all directions as you play on one of the crispest, brightest and greenest golf courses in all of Arizona.

For the sheer joy of this state's fine natural beauty, come play golf at the Dove Valley Ranch Golf Club in Arizona. Located near bustling destination city of Phoenix, this treasured par-72, 18-hole golf course oasis is home to some of the lush links and green fairways provide intrigue, fun and golfing excitement along every step of the way.

Stretching out over the vast expanse of 7,011 yards, the Dove Valley Ranch Golf Club is perfect for golf players at all different levels of skill. If you're not prepared for amazement, however, don't bother with this one. That's because not a single green or fairway could at all be called "dull." Needless to say, you'll run into your fare share of challenges-and rewards.

But aside from a great game, you'll also be treated to fine amenities and features you can expect from any professional golf club course.

Dove Valley Ranch Golf Club
33244 N Black Mountain Parkway
Phoenix, AZ
(480) 473-1444

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