The Golf Club at Johnson Ranch, Queen Creek. Kenny Watkins, 1997.

This club has switched nines several times, so I’m not sure which configuration is current just now. Last I knew they were starting players on the better nine, which plays up, around, then down the mountain, offering a couple nice holes like the first, fifth, and sixth, as well as a few inevitably awkward ones like the fourth.

But all of that is preferable to the back nine, which is simply a featureless flat march between homes.

Arizona 9th Decile [2017]