Coyote golf course at Starr Pass Country Club in Tucson

The Coyote golf course is the most natural of the three nines at the Starr Pass Country Club in Tucson. It winds through desert, with the linked JW Marriott resort largely out of site. Instead you get towering 150-year-old Saguaro cacti and plenty of chances to spray it out of bounds.

Coyote is a set of risk-reward holes from the Arnold Palmer design team. No. 6, a 351-yard par 4 that should make smart golfers take up an iron, is typical - at least, as typical as anything is on this eccentric track. Starr Pass Coyote throws a number of blind shots at you; sometimes the green is only a guess over a hill.

Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

Starr Pass Country Club's Coyote nine really puts you into the Tucson desert.

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

Starr Pass Coyote has some greens tucked back by a mountain.

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

It's easy to get lost amid the cacti at Starr Pass Coyote.

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

Starr Pass Coyote is far away from the JW Marriott Tucson resort with which it's linked.

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

Starr Pass Coyote provides many close encounters of the cacti kind.

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

Starr Pass Country Club Coyote nine in Tucson

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

At Starr Pass Coyote, it's the golfer vs. the desert.

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

Starr Pass Coyote has its fair share of desert brush clears.

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

Starr Pass Country Club Coyote nine in Tucson

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

Starr Pass Country Club Coyote nine in Tucson

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

Starr Pass Country Club Coyote nine in Tucson

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

Starr Pass Country Club Coyote nine in Tucson

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Starr Pass Country Club, Coyote course

Starr Pass Country Club Coyote nine in Tucson

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