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Course Profile
Golf Digest ranked TPC of Scottsdale in the "Top 25 Best Courses in Arizona." Conde Nast Magazine named TPC of Scottsdale as one of the "Top 100 Golf Resorts in the World" over the past 10-year period. Golfer Magazine ranked TPC of Scottsdale in the "Top 100 Golf Resorts in the World."
An honest golf course replete with spectator mounding - a necessity when some half-million people visit for a week to watch the Phoenix Open - the Stadium Course at the TPC of Scottsdale possesses the natural flavor of the desert that lends to its beauty. Saguaro cacti and mesquite trees dot the landscape, and one of the largest Palo Verdes trees in the state, measuring 42 feet, a dozen feet higher than normal, resides at the pleasing 15th hole. The Stadium Course, again like its predecessor, also radiates a contrived countenance (it began as a pancake-flat parcel) that lends to its challenge and six water hazards, which, of course, you just don't find in arid climates.
While the accompanying Desert Course, par-70, is a short, relatively flat, target-laden layout, the par-71 Stadium Course is spacious, with 28 acres of fairways, and long at 7,089 yards from the championship tees, though carries over the desert scrub are minimal. The greens are moderately large and most sit in an amphitheater setting, but their tiers and curves will not reward mediocre approach shots.
Contributing to the course's difficulty are the numerous mounds and bunkers, 72 of the latter, which, in conjunction with the desert areas, create a course of significant strategic difficulty.
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