2017 Spring Training Guide: Goodyear, Surprise, Avondale, Peoria

Spring Training Guide, West Valley, Verrado

On the Tee Verrado Golf Club (Buckeye) If you like jaw-dropping views and rugged beauty amid a charming little town, this is the place for you. Two courses, designed by 1996 British Open champion Tom Lehman, are a little-known secret in the charming planned community of Buckeye. The Founder’s Course and the newly opened Victory … Read more

2017 Spring Training Guide: Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert

Golf in the East Valley & South Ak-Chin Southern Dunes Golf Club (Maricopa) This Troon-managed desert oasis is worth the 30-minute drive south of Phoenix on I-10. Fred Couples teamed with the Schmidt-Curley design team to create one of the area’s most intriguing layouts. Instead of a traditional target-style desert course, it plays more like … Read more

Cactus League Baseball is a Great Escape

Surprisingly strong January monsoons continue to dump deep, fluffy snow across much of Colorado, delighting alpine and Nordic recreationalists but dispiriting fair-weather golfers. Rather than fighting the malaise, start planning for that time-honored golf trip to attend spring training baseball in sunny Scottsdale. For seven decades, the Scottsdale area has been a haven for Major … Read more