Desert Highlands Golf Club is an 18-hole private course in Scottsdale, Arizona.

It plays 7,108 yards from the Nicklaus tees, rated 73.7/149 (checked 2026-08-15).

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holes

par

7,108

yards (tips)

149

slope (nicklaus)

The shape of the round · Nicklaus teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

access: private
address: East Club Estates Drive, Scottsdale, AZ
phone: 480-585-7444
website: course site →
elevation: 2,382 ft derived
opened: 1983

33.71981, -111.86617 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. The greens of holes 5 to 18 are predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. 7 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

87 features across 6 layers for Desert Highlands Golf Club, 73 traced and 14 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Some outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Greens

Tee pads

7,108yds

Nicklaus tees

580yds

Longest hole

146yds

Shortest hole

73 imported from OpenStreetMap and 14 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-06-15

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 12 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Nicklaus	M	72	7108		73.7	149	3629	3479
Highlands	M	72	6957		73.7	145	3533	3424
Palmer	M	72	6740		72.1	142	3410	3330
Member	M	72	6532		71.1	135	3305	3227
Player	M	72	6303		70.3	131	3192	3111
Gentlemen	M	72	6012		68.9	127	3069	2943
Back	F	72	5815contested	5602	74.0	141	2847	2755
Watson	M	72	5815		67.8	125
Back Combo	F	72	5602		72.2	136
Middle	F	72	5387		71.5	130	2736	2651
Front Combo	F	72	5217		70.4	127
Front	F	72	5007		69.3	120	2537	2470

Every figure as published except Card yards (derived), which is summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Back tees publish a yardage total the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	5	4	3	4	4	3	4	5	4	5	3	4	4	3	3	5	5	72
Nicklaus	350	580	450	205	419	428	188	444	565	406	563	173	394	418	146	242	574	563	7,108
Highlands	350	514	450	205	402	428	176	444	564	406	545	162	378	418	136	242	574	563	6,957
Palmer	333	513	407	176	399	412	176	436	558	400	546	162	378	397	138	220	568	521	6,740
Member	333	513	398	168	388	412	132	403	558	358	534	148	378	388	138	194	568	521	6,532
Player	312	500	398	168	388	372	132	403	519	358	534	148	343	388	130	194	530	486	6,303
Gentlemen	312	500	368	168	368	343	132	403	475	294	504	148	327	369	130	194	491	486	6,012
Back	280	480	368	129	368	327	118	337	440	294	457	131	278	369	120	171	491	444	5,815
Middle	278	410	358	129	356	327	101	337	440	274	457	121	278	340	103	171	471	436	5,387
Front	211	404	336	119	333	285	82	332	435	248	450	105	267	298	91	147	454	410	5,007
Handicap	13	9	1	17	5	11	15	3	7	8	4	16	10	2	18	12	6	14

No per-hole yardages are published for Watson, Back Combo and Front Combo, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Desert Highlands Golf Club hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 87 of its features, 73 traced and 14 predicted by a model, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

Book nearby

Desert Highlands Golf Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Monument at Troon North Golf Club (1.9 mi, semi-private) · Pinnacle at Troon North Golf Club (2.3 mi, semi-private) · Raptor at Grayhawk Golf Club (3.4 mi, public)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In Arizona	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	7,108 yds	66th of 361	=1,071st of 12,025	=398th of 2,954 private courses · =1,069th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 149	=2nd of 294	=88th of 8,710	=45th of 2,300 private courses · =87th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 73.7	=42nd of 267	=1,718th of 7,615	=708th of 2,143 private courses · =1,703rd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	2,101 yds between tees	=96th of 348	=1,758th of 11,523	=537th of 2,885 private courses · =1,721st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1983	=99th of 303	=5,610th of 9,368	=1,648th of 2,418 private courses · =3,991st of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	2,382 ft derived	118th of 366	1,101st of 12,437	213th of 3,026 private courses · 797th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 9 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 12 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect and the grass on the greens.

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Sources

Gathered from the course's own site and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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