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The Short Course at Mountain Shadows
Paradise Valley, AZ
Paradise Valley, AZ
5445 East Lincoln Drive, Paradise Valley, AZ 85253

About this course
The Short Course at Mountain Shadows is a par-54 course in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Forrest Richardson, a protégé of original architect Arthur Jack Snyder, redesigned it in 2017 as an 18-hole par-3 course. The design emphasizes strategic shot-making and green complexes. It includes the bonus 17.5 hole, "The Forrest Wager," for tie-breaking. The course integrates with the desert landscape and offers views of Camelback Mountain.
Type
Par3
Region
Southwest
Holes
18
Established
2017
LooperScore
80.1
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Design & architects
- Forrest Richardson, architect
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Nearby courses
Courses within 150 miles of The Short Course at Mountain Shadows, by true distance.
Phoenician Golf Club
Scottsdale, AZ · 1.9 mi away
The Phoenician Golf Club is an 18-hole resort course at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona. It reopened in November 2018 after a 10-month redesign by architect Phil Smith, who cut the resort's original 27 holes to a single 18-hole routing on the existing fairway corridors. The renovation rebuilt the green complexes and recontoured fairways so bunkers and hazards are visible from the tee, with no blind shots. The course plays to a par of 71 from roughly 4,575 to 6,518 yards. It sits within the resort's Sonoran Desert grounds at 6000 East Camelback Road.

Camelback Golf Club (Ambiente)
Scottsdale, AZ · 2.4 mi away
The Ambiente course at Camelback Golf Club occupies part of the JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, set against the northern Sonoran Desert. Jason Straka of Hurdzan/Fry Environmental Golf Design rebuilt the club's former Indian Bend layout, raising and reshaping the flat washland to add elevation change and improve drainage; the course opened in November 2013. Ambiente plays to a par of 72 at about 7,225 yards from the back tees, with wide fairways, five sets of tees, and only about 90 acres of maintained turf surrounded by restored native desert vegetation. It operates as a resort course open to guests of the Camelback Inn and the public through advance tee-time booking.
Ambiente Golf Club
Paradise Valley, AZ · 2.4 mi away
The Ambiente Course is one of two 18-hole layouts at Camelback Golf Club, located at the JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn Resort & Spa in Scottsdale, Arizona, near the Paradise Valley area at the base of Camelback Mountain. The course opened in its current form in 2013 following a complete redesign of the previous Indian Bend layout. Architect Jason Straka of Hurdzan/Fry led the renovation, lowering the course's elevation profile to create dramatic rolling fairways and improve drainage, while restoring native desert plantings and reducing maintained turf. The par-72 course plays to roughly 7,225 yards from the back tees, with mountain views throughout the round. As a resort course, Ambiente is available to hotel guests and the public through tee time reservations, and it operates alongside the Arthur Hills-designed Padre Course as part of the same golf club.
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