Raven Golf Club at Verrado - Phoenix-Scottsdale
The Raven Golf Club at Verrado offers high-end play at mid-range green fees. The Verrado community out in Buckeye, Ariz., about an hour from Scottsdale, only dates back to 2002, and its attitude toward golf is appropriately progressive.
This is a showy desert golf course with fawning service. Everyone welcomes you warmly, and your cart is filled complimentary bottled water. Designers John Faught and Tom Lehman don't go easy on golfers; you have to work for your score here, with plenty of distinctive holes that cut scenically around desert obstacles. The back nine is particulary picturesque, and particularly tough.
Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club's showy waterfall is visible on both the first and 18th holes
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club throws some serious desert in a golfer's way
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club boasts some greens large enough to qualify as convention space
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
The Tom Lehman / John Fought design features forced desert clears off most tees
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Several of Raven Verrado's holes dogleg around the desert
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
The course's first par-3, No. 6, sets the tone for the shorter holes with a downhill shot to a huge green
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Verrado squeezes some of its giant greens with bunkers on the side
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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Raven Golf Club at Verrado
Raven Golf Club at Verrado in Buckeye (Phoenix - Scottsdale Area), AZ
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