Courses · Arizona

Talking Stick Golf Club

Scottsdale, Arizona · 18 holes · par 70 · resort. Designed by Coore and Crenshaw, opened 1998.

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

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

394 (Black) · 379 (Gold) yards · Handicap 15

Green · Black tee

378 · 394 · 413front · middle · back

Green size

35 × 28yards deep × wide

Fairway

74 ydswide at 221

In play

• Bunker left: 222 to reach, 246 to carry
• Bunker left: 332 to reach, 347 to carry
• Bunker front of the green
• Bunker front-left of the green

Playing notes

• Dogleg left at about 268 yards.
• Fairway bunkers on the left: 222 to reach, 246 to carry. Drives that finish short of 222 stay clear; otherwise the right side is the safer line off the tee.
• The fairway is about 74 yards wide at 221 and narrows to 66 at 191.
• The green is guarded on the left by bunkers; miss right.
• Bunkers short of the green; take enough club to carry it.
• The green is 35 yards deep: a back pin can play about 2 clubs more than a front pin.

Hole 2 · Par 5

552 (Black) · 509 (Gold) yards · Handicap 13

Green · Black tee

536 · 552 · 566front · middle · back

Green size

30 × 20yards deep × wide

Fairway

72 ydswide at 233

In play

• Bunker front of the green
• Bunker right of the green

Playing notes

• No hazards mapped in the driving zone (180 to 300 yards).
• The fairway is about 72 yards wide at 233.
• Best lay-up: 70 to 170 yards from the green, where the fairway is about 73 yards wide with no bunkers or water within 16 yards.
• The green is guarded on the right by bunkers; miss left.
• Bunkers short of the green; take enough club to carry it.

Hole 3 · Par 4

450 (Black) · 417 (Gold) yards · Handicap 1

Green · Black tee

434 · 450 · 466front · middle · back

Green size

33 × 29yards deep × wide

Fairway

68 ydswide at 237

In play

• Bunker right: 90 to reach, 101 to carry
• Bunker across the hole: 179 to reach, 185 to carry
• 3 bunkers right: 250 to reach, 312 to carry
• Bunker left: 372 to reach, 394 to carry
• Bunker front of the green
• Bunker front-right of the green

Playing notes

• Fairway bunkers on the right: 250 to reach, 312 to carry. Drives that finish short of 250 stay clear; otherwise the left side is the safer line off the tee.
• The fairway is about 68 yards wide at 237 and narrows to 45 at 287.
• The green is guarded on the right by bunkers; miss left.
• Bunkers short of the green; take enough club to carry it.

Holes 4 to 18

4 · Par 45 · Par 46 · Par 37 · Par 48 · Par 39 · Par 410 · Par 411 · Par 312 · Par 413 · Par 414 · Par 415 · Par 416 · Par 317 · Par 518 · Par 4

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

• 1 plays-like yardages
• 44 hazards with reach and carry
• 1 green slope reads
• 1 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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