Rancho Mañana GC, Carefree. Bill Johnston, 1989.

The front nine holes that get up on a hillside offer nice views, but almost everything on this course just feels hemmed in (not by houses, though, for the most part, at least until the back nine). It’s a short course with a ton of blind shorts and strange holes. Maybe once you’ve played there a few times some of that mystery goes away, but it still seems like there would be too many holes where you have to lay up awkwardly off the tee and too many long cart rides.

Arizona 6th Decile [2012]