Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore designed Talking Stick Golf Club, where everywhere you look on 36 holes you can hardly see any evidence that a bulldozer ripped through this Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community.

Located in the East Valley near Phoenix, the links-style North Course is a stimulating minimalist design that includes great views of Camelback Mountain, wide fairways, no trees, strategic bunkers and a true opportunity to score well. On just about any approach you have the option to run your ball on the green. The 7,133-yard par-70 course presents the golfer with views of Camelback Mountain, the McDowell Mountains and Pinnacle Peak and boasts a flat landscape with no trees. If you peer across the barbed-wire fences you will see palo verde trees, creosote and mesquite.

The Talking Stick name comes from the traditional Pima calendar stick, a wooden branch carved to mark significant events in its history.

Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore designed Talking Stick Golf Club, where everywhere you look on 36 holes you can hardly see any evidence that a bulldozer ripped through this Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community.

More straightforward than the North Course, the South Course is 6,833 yards at par 71. What you see on the tee will tell you what to do. The South features subtle elevation changes, fingered bunkers, tiered landscaping and native cottonwoods and hardwoods.

The Talking Stick name comes from the traditional Pima calendar stick, a wooden branch carved to mark significant events in its history.

"The South course, with its tree-lined fairways and raised greens defended at the sides offers a more straightforward style of play." - Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw