Starr Pass

The Sonoran Desert's unforgiving terrain demands precision on every approach, with towering saguaro cacti standing sentinel over fairways that thread between arroyos and natural desert washes. Arnold Palmer's routing maximizes the dramatic elevation changes of the Tucson Mountains, creating approach shots that play significantly longer or shorter than the yardage suggests. The par-3 15th epitomizes desert golf at its most photogenic and penal—a downhill one-shotter where club selection separates the locals from the snowbirds, and where anything right of the pin means searching for your Pro V1 among the cholla.