Boulders

The high Sonoran Desert serves up golf's most dramatic theater here, where massive granite formations frame nearly every shot and saguaro cacti stand sentinel over elevated tees that plunge toward distant fairways. Jay Morrish's routing through this moonscape demands precision over power—the boulder-lined par-3 7th plays from a granite outcrop to a green nestled impossibly between house-sized rocks below. Desert golf rarely gets more authentic than threading drives between 20-foot cacti while ancient geology towers overhead like nature's own gallery.