Played Arizona Grand today. Used to be called Phantom Horse (such a cooler name). Played tips of course too in case anyone wondered.
Course was fucking TOUGH. It wasn't all that long but it was super hilly, a lot of super low tee boxes and elevated greens. VERY narrow and SUPER tiny greens. First time I ever played there, had a blast. Was such a fucking hard course but was really fun.
Here's the tee box for hole 18. Course was in OK shape but you can see the tee box is super elevated to the green, made for an awkward shot.
I was 13 over in the end which I can live with for how much of a pain in the ass that course was and my first time there. Playing again Sunday, won't pull out the driver once probably. It's a course that you can play without it, very very well with proper course management so I'm going to try and shoot 9 over or better then.
The view from up there was beautiful. Anyone who knows AZ, you could see as far out of Scottsdale as possible and all the way past the west valley, it was awesome.