Las Sendas Golf Club

Many new courses in our Sonoran Desert are like an old-west gunfighter: interesting and notorious, but something you tend to avoid once you've had a primal experience with them. Las Sendas is not one of those. It is a nature walk through the desert, attracting you with beauty and challenging you with shot options. You can't wait to get back and play it again.

Las Sendas is a thinking golfer's course. Here, old foxes can outwit young guns. Just hitting the ball will not be enough. You must favor the correct sides of the fairways to get the best angles to the greens. Some holes require a little governor, or lay-up, so as not to leave you with an impossible view to the greens. Generally, the greens are subtle. But be precise when you read the break to avoid slipping past the hole, as the land mostly falls toward the southwest and the grass grows toward the setting sun.

Las Sendas is not a course contrived with artifice, decor, or railroad ties, nor is it a target course. It is a strategic course, so learn the preferred route from tee to green. It is a Wild West Course, and you'd better bring your six-gun, because you're going to have to shoot it here.