The Duke At Rancho El Dorado

So my wife and I rode our bikes this morning to the Duke for breakfast. Complete garbage breakfast, worst possible breakfast you can imagine I don’t know what happened here, this place used to have good food and now it is disgusting. could not eat what they called eggs Benedict, eggs were almost cold and completely under cooked. Hollandaise was a mess. I had a fruit platter and cottage cheese pretty hard to screw that up. Been living here for 10 years and always used to be pleased with food at the Duke, but this was awful.

My wife and I were wanting something different, and had never really given The Duke a try for dinner. Their lunch is always decent, so we went for the Friday fish fry. Originally I wanted to get steak, but all you can eat fish is a solid idea if done right.
I was unsure if I could do the fish thing, as I am currently unable to eat a ton of carbs. Fortunately, they were very accommodating when I asked for a mix of grilled and fried with a fruit cup to replace the fries, as well as when my wife asked for a lettuce wrapped burger.
And that food was still darn good. It came out fast, the fish tasted fresh (in Maricopa that is rare), and the service and drinks were excellent. Before this visit, this was a 3 star place in my book. That changed tonight. Great job, we will be back!

I’ve golfed at quite a few different courses in Arizona and I definitely enjoy golfing at the Dukes.
— The staff can be kind of hit or miss. I’ve met a couple of really nice people there but from time to time you get the Snotty Golf Guy. (I had one guy ride out from the clubhouse to the driving range just to reprimand me for hitting a pile of balls that somebody else had left on the range. Really? Lol who does that?)
— The clubhouse, Pro Shop and the bar and grill are all pretty standard but nice enough.
— The practice facility is one of my favorite in the valley. They have a great chipping area, very challenging putting green to practice on, and a very large and long driving range. I have easily spent hours and hours of practice here and I still enjoy it.
— The course itself plays really well and is pretty challenging. definitely a great use of wide fairways and generous green sizes… but accuracy is definitely still required and rewarded. The conditions of the course the times that I have played have almost always been very good.
— It’s a bit more expensive than a local BS club will be, especially for the drive down there… But at the end of the day it’s worth it to play a nice course and have a great facility to use.

Wide open course, so you can use the driver even if you can’t always control it. Very nice facilities as well. Only took 45 minutes to get to from old town scottsdale. I had won a free round for 2 from a radio show, so it was worth it to go out there. It was weird that kitchen was closed at 2. Fast pace of play though. Would go back.

Never open on Sunday’s. Also has a bland and limited menu. Service seems to be geared to golf members as well. They are treated like regulars. All others are outsiders. Nothing special here. Head to Ak-​chin instead

I played on 8÷4÷2014. One of four courses that are part of The Foothills Golf Group, The Duke is clearly the gem! Well-​maintained from tee to green… and it helped that I was playing well. :)

Fun course, well kept. Nice views. Me and my husband live on the course so we frequently play here. The service mostly good and welcoming. Way over priced in the fall for tee times but the price is usually very good other than that… only real complaint is when we go golfing we like it to just have «us time»…so getting paired with other people can be very annoying.

Food was terrible — service was good — prices have been raised twice in the past 6 months — now over priced — no happy hour but love the golf course —

The best of the Ahwatukee properties I have been to (all of the full length courses). Grass was in good condition, not too big of a crowd of Friday afternoon. They only have cart service on weekends. Cooler and ball/​club cleaning on the carts.

Touring the city of Maricopa.

Super fun course, nice layout, nice staff, great breakfast!

The service was okay. The food menu is limited to a few things. I felt as if I might as well had stayed home and cooked. The food was hot and tasty though. I had my kids with me but it seemed to be mostly for older men who play golf.

I visited this course due to an only promotion that gave us a round for 4, range balls for each of us, 2 carts, and 12 brand new Callaway Tour i (s) golf balls, all this for only $ 59. It was too good a deal to pass up and the course was in amazing condition. Especially considering it’s the middle of the summer in AZ. The course was long and wide allowing you to «grip it and rip it.» The only downside is it’s in Maricopa so it’s a bit of a drive for someone in Tempe. After we finished I felt it was definitely worth the drive, even if we wouldn’t have purchased the package.

Played in the late morning on Sunday, June 5^th. Very friendly staff and good range, club house and pro shop facilities. Tee times were delayed due to skins game ahead of us, but not too bad. Wide fairways and nice layout. All areas were in good condition and cold water was provided on about every other hole. Greens rolled true and had good speed. Pace of play was a little slow, but still got our round in in just over under 4 hours. The very pleasant cart girl came around 3 or 4 times and the beers were cheap. There is not much shade around the tee boxes, so load up on sunscreen. Other than the 30 minute drive from the SE Valley, it’s just about ideal.

I didn’t bother checking in to this place after my experience. There was a special tournament going on and it was after everyone was getting out of Sunday services. It took 20 minutes before someone came to our table which was the manager. While waiting for another 10 minutes an older couple sat down next to us. Within 2 mintues a waitress stopped by to take their order and walked past us. At that point we left a few dollors for coffee and orange juice then proceeded to walk out. I will never go there again to eat !!!

Nice course layout and design.
Just played 4−24−10 at 830 tee time. Course was not in great condition, I was impressed with the grass on the greens, but they were bumpy and rolling slow at around 8. The fairways were nice, and the «rough» was really just matted down dead grass and weeds. Very few shade trees, but some nice water areas.
I would play again, but not worth more than around $ 50 – 60.