Courses · Arizona

Deer Valley Golf Course At Sun City West

Sun City West, Arizona · 18 holes · par 72 · Private. Designed by Greg Nash and Billy Casper, opened 1994.

A caddie's yardage book for every hole: plays-like distance from USGS lidar elevation, reach and carry numbers for every bunker and water hazard, green front, middle and back, which way each green falls, and the lay-up zone on par 5s. Distances are from the back tees along the mapped hole; for a shorter tee, take off the scorecard difference.

Course profile

• At about 1,290 ft the ball carries about 1% farther than at sea level, so a 150-yard shot plays like about 148. Golfers visiting from low elevation should expect to club down.
• Biggest climb: hole 13, where the green sits 10 ft above the tee and plays about 3 yards longer.
• Biggest drop: hole 10, where the green sits 9 ft below the tee and plays about 3 yards shorter.
• Driving-zone hazards sit on the left on 8 holes and on the right on 4: a tee shot missed left costs more here.
• 8 greens tilt 2% or more. Each hole below says which side of the hole leaves an uphill putt.

Maps: tee at the bottom, green at the top. The dashed line is the mapped hole; the gold band is the lay-up zone; the arrow on the green points downhill.

Scorecard

Tees

Hole 1 · Par 4

318 (Blue) · 306 (White) · 282 (Gold) · 270 (Red) · 214 (Green) yards · Handicap 9

Plays like

320+6 ft

Green · Blue tee

303 · 318 · 333front · middle · back

Green size

33 × 29yards deep × wide

Fairway

39 ydswide at 214

Green slope

1.5%falls to the front-right

In play

• Bunker left: 228 to reach, 245 to carry

Playing notes

• Plays about 2 yards longer: the green sits 6 ft above the tee.
• Dogleg left at about 216 yards.
• Fairway bunkers on the left: 228 to reach, 245 to carry. Drives that finish short of 228 stay clear; otherwise the right side is the safer line off the tee.
• The fairway is about 39 yards wide at 214 and narrows to 18 at 243.
• No hazards mapped around the green.
• The green falls from back-left to front-right, about 1.5%. Finish on the front-right side of the hole for an uphill putt.

Hole 2 · Par 3

153 (Blue) · 135 (White) · 126 (Gold) · 112 (Red) · 92 (Green) yards · Handicap 17

Plays like

154+2 ft

Green · Blue tee

138 · 153 · 171front · middle · back

Green size

33 × 28yards deep × wide

Green slope

1.5%falls to the front-left

In play

• No bunkers or water mapped on this hole

Playing notes

• No hazards mapped around the green.
• The green falls from back-right to front-left, about 1.5%. Finish on the front-left side of the hole for an uphill putt.

Hole 3 · Par 4

370 (Blue) · 359 (White) · 331 (Gold) · 314 (Red) · 240 (Green) yards · Handicap 5

Plays like

372+6 ft

Green · Blue tee

348 · 370 · 392front · middle · back

Green size

45 × 25yards deep × wide

Fairway

33 ydswide at 259

Green slope

4.5%falls to the left

In play

• No bunkers or water mapped on this hole

Playing notes

• Plays about 2 yards longer: the green sits 6 ft above the tee.
• No hazards mapped in the driving zone (180 to 300 yards).
• The fairway is about 33 yards wide at 259 and narrows to 28 at 278.
• No hazards mapped around the green.
• The green falls from right to left, about 4.5%. Finish on the left side of the hole for an uphill putt.
• The green is 45 yards deep: a back pin can play about 3 clubs more than a front pin.

Holes 4 to 18

4 · Par 55 · Par 36 · Par 47 · Par 48 · Par 59 · Par 410 · Par 411 · Par 412 · Par 413 · Par 514 · Par 315 · Par 516 · Par 417 · Par 318 · Par 4

The rest of this guide has the same caddie detail for every hole:

• 15 plays-like yardages
• 43 hazards with reach and carry
• 13 green slope reads
• 4 par-5 lay-up zones

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Hole maps, hazards and playing notes come from mapped course data and USGS 3DEP elevation (public domain), not a visit. Plays-like numbers use the Skitty caddie's rule of one yard per 3 ft of rise, from the longest tee; altitude uses 1.16% of carry per 1,000 ft. Tees, hazards and conditions change; check with the course before you play. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0) via OpenGolfAPI. Scorecard yardages and ratings as published. See a mistake? Email [email protected].

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