Grayhawk

The Sonoran Desert serves as both canvas and adversary on this Tom Fazio design, where towering saguaros and boulder-strewn arroyos frame elevated greens that demand precise distance control in the thin desert air. The routing cleverly uses the natural desert washes as hazards, most memorably on the downhill par-3 8th where anything right finds the rocky wasteland below. What separates this track from other Scottsdale resort courses is Fazio's restraint—he lets the dramatic desert topography do the talking rather than manufacturing difficulty through architectural gimmicks.