Desert Mountain Golf Club, Cochise Golf Course

Detailed description of Desert Mountain Golf Club, Cochise Golf Course

Desert Mountain Golf Club is a Private 126 hole golf facility located in Scottsdale, Arizona. The facility has six, 18-hole, regulation length championship golf courses. They are Apache Golf Course, Cochise Course, Chiricahua Golf Course, Geronimo Golf Course, Outlaw Golf Course, and Renegade Golf Course. The seventh course is the newest course, it's an 18-hole par-3, The course is appropriately named #7. 

The six championship courses were designed by Jack Nicklaus. Desert Mountain is the only golf community in the country with six Nicklaus designs. #7 opened in 2019 and was designed by Bill Brownlee and Wendell Pickett.

The Desert Mountain courses opened in the following order: (1987) Renegade Golf Course, (1988) Cochise Course, (1989) Geronimo Golf Course, (1996) Apache Golf Course, (1999) Chiricahua Golf Course, (2003) Outlaw Golf Course, 2019 #7.

Desert Mountain Golf Club, Cochise Golf Course

The Cochise Course is very picturesque. The greens are elevated, medium-sized, surrounded by sand bunkers, and some holes are highlighted by rock formations. Hole #7, a 215-yard, par 3, is highlighted by an elevated peninsula green. Cochise is the former home of the Senior PGA Tour's Tradition. The course hosted the 2012 Charles Schwab Cup Championship, the season-ending event on the Champions Tour, which returns to Cochise in 2014 and 2016.

Par for the course is 72. From the back tees, the course plays to 7,048 yards. From the forward tees, the course measures 5,236 yards. The longest hole on the course is # 8, a par-5 that plays to 569 yards. The shortest hole on the course is # 2, a par-3 that plays to 181 yards from the back tees.

Watch out for # 5, a 448 yard par-4 challenge and the #1 handicap hole on the course. The easiest hole is # 2, a 181 yard par-3.