McCormick Ranch GC, Scottsdale. Palm and Pine Courses by Desmond Muirhead, 1971.

There’s so little to distinguish these courses from each other that apparently they took to planting different kinds of trees around them, just to help golfers figure it out. Both courses are short and tight with small, tilted greens. If you’re tired of wayward shots ending up lost in thorny desert bushes you can come here and just hit wayward shots into the water.

Here’s how I always differentiated the courses: The Palm course has a hole with an island fairway from which you play to a peninsula green. Meanwhile, the Pine course has a hole with a peninsula fairway from which you play to an island green.

Arizona 7th Decile [2018 Palm / 2013 Pine]