Golf courses in Maricopa, AZ.

Maricopa, AZ

Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club in Maricopa, Arizona, opened in 2002 and was designed by Schmidt-Curley Design, the team of Lee Schmidt and Brian Curley, with Fred Couples as a design consultant. It sits on 320 acres owned by the Ak-Chin Indian Community, land that was part of the community's original 1912 reservation. The course was built in the Australian sand belt style rather than the usual Arizona desert form, with more than 100 bunkers cut hard against the edges of greens and fairways and mounded native grasses framing the holes. It plays to a par 72 at roughly 7,550 yards from the back tees, and the ground is open enough that wind matters. It operates as a true daily-fee course open to everyone, about 35 minutes south of Phoenix, and has served as a qualifying site for professional and USGA events.