Take a Scottsdale Golf Vacation

Take a Scottsdale Golf Vacation. Okay all you golfers, looking for a different kind of golf vacation, try Scottsdale! Golf in the desert, the cr鑝e de la cr鑝e, or even if it is expensive, it抯 an experience you should have at least once before you die ?probably more. You owe yourself a Scottsdale golf vacation.

Lee Trevino, well known for his quips and sayings, once said of desert golf, 揑t抯 like a voyage into the unknown? The first desert course, Desert Highlands, was designed and built by Jack Nicklaus and Scott Miller in the mid 1980抯, and it was home to the first 搒kins game? It also was the beginning of the building boom of golf courses in Arizona.
Taking advantage of the desert terrain, approximately 350 new golf courses have been built since that time.

Most golfers are looking to play a different kind of golf course when they plan their trip to Scottsdale, enough already of the traditional courses that they play every weekend back home卆nd desert courses fill the bill. The game is the same, whether it抯 on a tree-lined fairway or meandering along a desert fairway. The maximum allowance for turf is 90 acres, so there抣l be a lot of desert around you卲lus arroyos (dry washes ?hopefully), critter warnings (maybe rattlesnakes, possible roadrunners), the jumping chollas (they will reach out and grab you, just brush against one and you抣l have enough cactus spines on you to last the day) and of course the giant Saguaros that will gobble up your ball if it goes that way. Didn抰 we tell you it would be an adventure?

Scottsdale and its desert courses are a 搈ust-play?for a great golf vacation. We-Ko-Pa, built by Native Americans over in Fountain Hills is probably the most scenic course you can play anywhere. Four Peaks Mountain (their sacred mountain) is visible from most areas of the course, and the greens are set in box canyons, this course is beautiful and a public golf course to boot. The Boulders of course is set among 1,000,000 year old rocks to give you pause. The Raven Golf Club at Verrado uses natural desert terrain and plays in and around the washes. The White Tank Mountains make a powerful backdrop.
And for a real sleeper try the newly revamped Legend Trails, it抯 a 搒trategic course?as described by it抯 designer Rees Jones. You抣l be lulled by the first few holes, thinking, 搚eh, this course is duck soup? with minimal desert carries, but whoa, then comes hole #7, a par 5, with water, then on the back nine you抣l get all you can handle with the desert stretching before you. Legend Trails is reasonable with outstanding views, maybe a great place to start your Scottsdale Golf Vacation. Get all the information you need, as well as great rates for a golf vacation package at http://Insider-Scottsdale.com