The Phoenician Resort

The Phoenician Golf Club belongs to the luxury Phoenician resort on the slopes of Camelback Mountain in Scottsdale. Golf here began as a 27-hole facility, with early nines shaped by Homer Flint and later work by the father-son team of Ted Robinson and Ted Robinson Jr. In 2018 the resort commissioned Scottsdale architect Phil Smith to reinvent the property. Over a roughly ten-month renovation, Smith used existing fairway corridors to reroute and rebuild the layout into a single cohesive 18-hole course, reopening on November 1, 2018. Every hole was rebuilt with new TifEagle greens and Bermuda fairways. The reimagined course plays to a par of 71, stretching to about 6,500 yards from the championship tees, with four tee sets and desert-canyon character woven throughout.