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Every golf community in the North Valley and Scottsdale

Private clubs, resort courses, and daily-fee neighborhoods: a page for each one, with live MLS search arriving on every page. Pick a community or tell me your brief and I will shortlist for you.

Scottsdale & Paradise Valley

Scottsdale & Paradise Valley golf communities

From the high-desert flagships at the top of the 85262 zip to the mature parkland courses of central Scottsdale and Paradise Valley.

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Desert Mountain

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

Desert Mountain is the largest private golf community in the area and one of the most decorated golf addresses in the country, rising from high Sonoran desert into the Continental Mountains at the top of Scottsdale.

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Desert Highlands

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

Desert Highlands sits at the base of Pinnacle Peak and helped invent modern target-style desert golf when it opened in the early 1980s. It remains one of North Scottsdale's most established private club communities.

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Estancia

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

Estancia occupies the north face of Pinnacle Peak with some of the most dramatic homesites in Scottsdale, a small and intensely private club community where the architecture matches the setting.

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Silverleaf

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

Silverleaf is the ultra-luxury upper canyon of DC Ranch, where rural European architecture meets the McDowell Mountains in arguably the most exclusive address in Scottsdale.

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DC Ranch

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

DC Ranch is North Scottsdale's village-style master plan at the base of the McDowells, where walkable neighborhoods, Market Street dining, and a historic-feel country club share one address.

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Troon North

Scottsdale · Public

Troon North is the standard-bearer for high-end public desert golf, and the neighborhoods around its two courses put residents inside one of the most famous 36-hole settings in the Southwest.

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Troon Village

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

Troon Village wraps the slopes of Troon Mountain around its namesake country club, an address that helped define North Scottsdale golf living in the 1980s and has aged into one of its most solid values.

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Grayhawk

Scottsdale · Public

Grayhawk built its name on 36 holes of tournament-tested public golf and a master plan that keeps parks, trails, and dining inside the community, all minutes from the 101 corridor.

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Mirabel

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

Mirabel is high-desert club living distilled: one Fazio course, one clubhouse, and a few hundred custom homesites at 3,000 feet where the air runs cooler and the views run long.

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Whisper Rock

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

Whisper Rock is the golfer's golf club of North Scottsdale, famous for the strength of its playing membership, with a quiet enclave of estate homes alongside its two courses.

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Legend Trail

Scottsdale · Public

Legend Trail strings its neighborhoods along a daily-fee course at the far north edge of Scottsdale, where the Tonto foothills start and the pricing stays friendlier than the private clubs around it.

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Terravita

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

Terravita was North Scottsdale's first big gated golf master plan of the 1990s, and it still delivers the package: one private club, one guarded gate, and miles of internal trails.

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Pinnacle Peak Country Club

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

Pinnacle Peak Country Club is old-guard North Scottsdale: a 1970s-founded club whose surrounding acre-plus estates predate almost everything else in the 85255 zip.

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Ancala

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

Ancala climbs the lower slopes of the McDowells in the Shea corridor, a guard-gated country club community that pairs city convenience with mountainside views.

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Gainey Ranch

Scottsdale · Private · Gated

Gainey Ranch is central Scottsdale's resort-polished classic, a guard-gated community sharing its grounds with the Hyatt Regency resort and 27 holes of club golf.

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McCormick Ranch

Scottsdale · Public

McCormick Ranch is the granddaddy of Scottsdale master plans, built around lakes, greenbelts, and 36 public holes in the heart of the city.

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Kierland

Scottsdale · Resort

Kierland blends resort golf with one of the Valley's best walk-to-everything locations, beside Kierland Commons and Scottsdale Quarter shopping and dining.

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Orange Tree

Scottsdale · Resort

Orange Tree grew out of one of Scottsdale's original citrus-grove resorts, a mature mid-Scottsdale neighborhood wrapped around a classic parkland course.

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Starfire

Scottsdale · Semi-private

Starfire threads 27 holes through established central Scottsdale neighborhoods off Hayden Road, a convenient semi-private club in the middle of everything.

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Stonecreek

Phoenix · Public

Stonecreek sits on the Phoenix side of the Scottsdale border at Paradise Valley Mall's doorstep, its course winding through a pocket of established golf-frontage neighborhoods.

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Camelback Golf Club

Paradise Valley · Resort

The neighborhoods around Camelback Golf Club put residents in Paradise Valley's resort corridor, where two courses at the JW Marriott Camelback Inn anchor a classic PV setting.

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Paradise Valley Country Club

Paradise Valley · Private

Paradise Valley Country Club is the town's social anchor, a private club dating to the 1950s surrounded by the estates that made PV synonymous with Arizona luxury.

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North Valley

North Valley golf communities

Cave Creek, Carefree, and north Phoenix: boulder-country golf with small-town character and some of the Valley's best value golf living.

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Rancho Mañana

Cave Creek · Semi-private

Rancho Mañana sits in the foothills on the west side of Cave Creek, minutes from the town core but folded into saguaro-covered hillsides that feel much farther out. It is the golf community closest to old Cave Creek, and it plays like it: relaxed, scenic, and unpretentious.

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Dove Valley Ranch

Cave Creek · Public

Dove Valley Ranch pairs an accessible daily-fee course with one of north Cave Creek's larger master-planned neighborhoods, just off Cave Creek Road as the town gives way to open desert.

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Tatum Ranch

Cave Creek · Semi-private

Tatum Ranch is one of the North Valley's foundational master-planned communities, built around its golf club in the southern reaches of Cave Creek where commuting to the 101 corridor stays easy.

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The Boulders

Carefree · Resort · Gated

The Boulders is the North Valley's signature resort community, named for the twelve-million-year-old granite formations that shoulder up against its fairways and homesites on the Carefree and Scottsdale border.

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Desert Forest (Carefree)

Carefree · Private

Desert Forest is the purist's club: founded in 1962, no tee times, no housing pressed against the fairways, and a course routinely ranked among Arizona's best. The custom homes of Carefree surround it on quiet, often acre-plus lots.

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Moon Valley

Phoenix · Private

Moon Valley is classic north Phoenix: a mature country club neighborhood that grew up around its course in the 1960s, with mountain views, established trees, and streets that feel like the era they were built in.

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Lookout Mountain

Phoenix · Resort

Lookout Mountain pairs hillside living in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve corridor with a resort course at the base of its namesake peak, ten minutes from both downtown and the 51.

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Desert Ridge & Wildfire

Phoenix · Resort

Desert Ridge is north Phoenix's modern master plan, and Wildfire Golf Club at the JW Marriott resort gives it 36 holes of championship golf surrounded by some of the area's newest golf-corridor homes.

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