SCOTTSDALE GOLF COMMUNITIES

If you’re thinking about buying a golf home in Arizona, you’ve come to the right place. Doug and his team devote the majority of their time representing home and home-site buyers and sellers in many of Arizona’s finest golf communities, including Grayhawk, DC Ranch, Silverleaf, Terravita, Varrado, Desert Mountain, Mirabel, Troon, Troon North, Tonto Verde, Estancia, Whisper Rock, Desert Highlands, The Boulders, Legend Trail, Rio Verde, Tatum Ranch and more. In fact, Doug spends so much time representing buyers and sellers, that his golf game has lost some of its fizzle. Can you say “high handicap”?

Check out these great Arizona golf communities:

Grayhawk Homes – North Scottsdale

Grayhawk is a community of uncompromising quality and beauty that is in one of the country's most desirable places to buy a home - north Scottsdale. Grayhawk features two distinct yet interconnected neighborhoods with gorgeous views of Pinnacle Peak and the McDowell Mountains, The Park and The Retreat. They both offer beautiful homes for sale at a variety of prices, with amenities galore.

With houses surrounded by the rugged beauty and ideal weather of Scottsdale’s Sonoran Desert, Grayhawk provides you all the options and opportunities you’ll ever need. Nestled between its award-winning daily fee golf courses, Talon and Raptor, the Grayhawk community includes several of the Valley’s finest homebuilders specializing in single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums, luxury rentals, and custom home sites.

DC Ranch homes – North Scottsdale

Life at DC Ranch is about connection - with family and friends, neighbors, the community at large, a healthy lifestyle, and the very environment in which you live. Throughout the DC Ranch community, you'll find a variety of architectural home-styles from which to choose, a friendly atmosphere where people with common interests can easily connect.

Those who join The Country Club at DC Ranch will find a gathering place totally at odds with most private clubs - a place where every member of the family is welcomed and valued. This exclusively private club has quickly gained a reputation as one of Scottsdale's finest. It boasts a broad array of amenities and activities, including swimming, tennis, fitness, dining, and many social events.

The 18-hole, par 71 golf course, redesigned by Tom Lehman and John Fought, lies at the foot of the McDowell Mountains, offering beautiful mountain and valley views at nearly every turn.

Silverleaf homes and homesites – North Scottsdale

Tucked into the canyons of the McDowell Mountains in North Scottsdale, Arizona, Silverleaf is a private enclave of custom estate homesites and intimate retreats. Offering a classically designed Tom Weiskopf golf course, exquisite architecture and world-class amenities, Silverleaf stands alone among private residential properties – catering to the most discerning of clientele.

Silverleaf, in plan and practice, is distinguished by its expressions of artful living. The exquisite Tom Weiskopf-designed golf course and the private Club and Spa anchor life in this extraordinary setting.

Whisper Rock homes – North Scottsdale

Whisper Rock offers an 18-hole golf course designed by Phil Mikelson and a second course is in the planning stages. Membership is not restricted to land ownership. The course features rock outcroppings and large boulders, desert washes, gently rolling terrain and dense stands of mesquite, ironwood and palo verde trees, along with cactus and native flowering plants. Whisper Rock is a gated custom home community.

Troon North homes – North Scottsdale

Troon North encompasses some of the most beautiful property in Scottsdale. From the rocky windswept foothills of Pinnacle Peak to the lush grass fairways of Troon North's two renowned championship golf courses. Meticulously planned, these luxury communities feature private gated entries, ample open space and preserved view corridors. This is desert living at its finest, with an assortment of lot sizes and locations to satisfy any homebuyer.

Troon Village homes – North Scottsdale

Troon Village is a 1,400 acre residential golf community located in north Scottsdale. The community offers a fitness facility complete with tennis, swimming, and a sport court.

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Desert Mountain homes – North Scottsdale

Desert Mountain offers five Jack Nicklaus designed championship courses. It is an 8,000 acre residential golf community.

Throughout Desert Mountain, environmentally sensitive architecture is celebrated thanks to community guidelines designed to ensure that homes respect the land and complement the natural desert surroundings.

Desert Highlands homes – North Scottsdale

Desert Highlands is an 850 acre residential golf community in North Scottsdale. It is located on the south slope of Pinnacle Peak, one of the area's prominent natural landmarks. Desert Highlands offers a variety of residential choices from custom homesites and homes to villas to production homes.

Estancia homes – North Scottsdale

Nestled on the northern slope of Scottsdale’s famed landmark, Pinnacle Peak, the private community of Estancia has been sensitively planned as the southwest’s most prestigious address. This gated community, which encompasses 640 acres of the most exquisite Sonoran high desert terrain, features 223 spectacular custom home sites and 39 beautifully designed villas. At Estancia’s centerpiece lies an exclusive private golf club, by invitation only. With a restricted number of members, this exclusive membership takes pride in the superb golf course designed by Tom Fazio, which was awarded Golf Digest’s “Best New Private Course of 1996”.

Legend Trail homes – North Scottsdale

A Rees Jones design, Legend Trail Golf Club has quickly become a local favorite.

Located in beautiful Scottsdale, Legend Trail is shaped through the Sonoran Desert landscape and features breathtaking, panoramic vistas and great views of some of the areas well-known landmarks such as Pinnacle Peak. Challenging, but fair, this course offers an enjoyable experience for all skill levels.

Terravita homes – North Scottsdale

Terravita is an 823-acre private golf community in the desert foothills of Scottsdale, Arizona. From the selection of the community name to the evolution of its land plan, everything about Terravita is unique. Terravita is an original name derived from the Latin words for land and life. The "harmony of land and life" has served as the vision, guiding the development of Terravita's environmentally-sensitive land plan. Terravita is a private community offering customized single family residences of quality construction and distinctive features. Homes are available on a resale, or a minimum thirty-day rental basis.

Mirabel homes – North Scottsdale

At Mirabel, there is beauty as near and far as the eye can see. Situated on 713 acres of pristine desert land at an elevation of nearly 3,000 feet, Mirabel promises residents the beauty and pure air of the desert set against panoramic views of majestic mountains, like Pinnacle Peak, glowing sunsets and the sparkling lights of the valley. This luxury development is just south of Desert Mountain and features the exclusive Mirabel Golf Course and all the amenities for luxury lifestyle pleasure.

Ancala homes – North Scottsdale

Nestled in the rugged foothills of the McDowell Mountains, Ancala Country Club is graced by the natural beauty of the Sonoran Desert and has become one of Scottsdale's most prestigious private country clubs. The Dye Design 18-hole championship course challenges players of all skill levels with five sets of tees and a variety of play. Dramatic views, lush fairways and pristine emerald greens offer an unforgettable game. Ancala Country Club was recently ranked as one of Arizona’s top ten private country clubs by Ranking Arizona Magazine

McCormick Ranch homes - Scottsdale

Over 30 years ago, developers purchased McCormick Ranch to form the largest master-planned community in the country. Approximately seven square miles, McCormick ranch has an estimated population of 23,000 residents. There are a variety of home choices as well as schools, hospitals, golf courses, lakes, shopping centers and restaurants.

Gainey Ranch homes - Scottsdale

Right in the heart of Scottsdale with its distinctive dining, shopping culture nightlife, unsurpassed beauty - is the active, elegant community you've been searching for, Gainey Ranch. Where you can live, work and play in the center of a spectacular city and still enjoy the resort lifestyle you deserve. Privacy and security. Golf, tennis, and swimming. Lushly landscaped walking and biking trails. Breathtaking panoramas of Camelback and the McDowell Mountains. And Best of all, Gainey Ranch offers some of the most stylish and distinctive homes and custom home sites in the valley.