The top 10 Arizona golf courses you can play.

Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish designed the Stadium Course, opened in 1986, specifically as the stage for the WM Phoenix Open. Its par-3 16th becomes "The Coliseum" during tournament week, ringed by grandstands, and on any other day you can play it yourself. The neighboring Champions Course, by Randy Heckenkemper, is also open to the public.

Two courses, the Monument and the Pinnacle, wind through boulder fields and arroyos below Pinnacle Peak. Tom Weiskopf designed both, the Monument with Jay Morrish in 1990 and the Pinnacle a few years later, and he later returned to renovate them. Expect bentgrass greens and, from the higher holes on the Pinnacle, views out to the McDowell Mountains and the Phoenix skyline.

Open to the public since 1994, Grayhawk has two courses: Talon, by David Graham and Gary Panks, with a back nine built around deep box canyons, and Raptor, by Tom Fazio. Raptor hosted a PGA Tour event, the Frys.com Open, from 2007 to 2009, and Grayhawk hosted the NCAA Division I men's and women's golf championships from 2021 to 2023.

Owned and operated by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Talking Stick opened in 1998 with two courses by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. The O'odham Course plays wide and open in the spirit of a Scottish links, while the Piipaash Course is a more traditional, tree-lined layout. Wild horses and coyotes are regular visitors.

On the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation east of Scottsdale, We-Ko-Pa has two courses with no homes, roads or businesses along either of them. The Cholla Course, by Scott Miller, opened in 2001, and the Saguaro Course, by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, followed in 2006 with wide fairways and big greens. It is open Sonoran Desert from the first tee to the last green.

Owned by the City of Phoenix and designed by William Francis "Billy" Bell, Papago opened in 1963 at the base of the red Papago Buttes, with views of Camelback Mountain and the downtown skyline. Long regarded as one of the best public courses in Arizona, it is now the home course of Arizona State University's men's and women's golf teams.

Rees Jones laid out Quintero in the foothills of the Hieroglyphic Mountains, and it opened in 2000 as a private club before going fully public. The setting is secluded high Sonoran Desert, well away from town, and Jones returned in 2025 to rework the greens and bunkers.

The Wigwam began as a retreat for Goodyear executives and opened to guests in 1929, and today it is a resort with three 18-hole courses, all of them classic parkland layouts rather than desert courses. The Gold Course, designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1964, is the longest and toughest of the three.

Designed by Schmidt-Curley with PGA Tour star Fred Couples and opened in 2002, Southern Dunes is built in the style of Australia's Sand Belt courses. In 2010 the Ak-Chin Indian Community bought the course, which sits on land that was part of its original 1912 reservation, and opened it to everyone as a daily-fee club. It has long been a U.S. Open qualifying site.

Gary Panks designed this course among Sedona's red rocks, and since it opened in 1988 its fairways have looked out to Cathedral Rock and Bell Rock. Higher and cooler than the Valley, it makes a good round when Phoenix courses are at their hottest.