Arthur Pack Desert Golf Course

Public golf in Oro Valley is good at Crooked Tree. I appreciated the slower greens and no forced carries from the forward tees. The staff was excellent, very generous and friendly. Gave us a free logo ball when they found out we were busted on a speed trap on Thornydale on the way there. Look out for that in the school zone, then have fun!

I have been here twice now and I have enjoyed it both times. I am new to golf so I don’t know a lot about the course, that being said the sand traps are like gravel. I wouldn’t want to hit out of them. The area around the greens are maintained. There are definitely some ugly spots but overall it’s nice!
The main reason I like is because their summer prices are reasonable. My friend and I found a coupon so we pay $ 35 for the both of us! I am not sure how experienced golfers feel about this place but I like it!

Love the course but why let an 18 year old run the starting positions? We sat for an hour on a Sunday and watched a very crowded course as he sent out numerous twosomes and no one on deck until the group was hitting their second shot. When we asked why so many twosomes his reply was «because they’re playing as twosomes». Ridiculous. Courses here are suffering financially because of things like this. Hire staff with brains and balls and watch your revenue go up. Golf is about learning as you go. If you’re afraid or intimidated to play with two strangers play a par 3 course.
Play Quarry Pines– very well run and monitored and you won’t waste ½ your day sitting around waiting on other groups to play.

This review is in no way a rip on their actual golf course, the range, or the staff on hand. This is purely a slap against not only Crooked Tree, but every other golf course in the greater Tucson area that refuses to sell their non used times for a decent rate… There are no shortage of places to play here… that is for sure… as an 18 handicap open courses like Crooked Tree are always more agreeable to my game. However, I do not understand the price gouging… golf itself is having a tough time… it is again becoming a rich white man’s game. Push away potential players… and you cannot exist. I use websites to get good deals… why not right? I called Crooked Tree to see if they would match online rates of other courses… CT wanted 22 bucks… Vistoso (which also comes with range balls, and CT does not) was asking 10 through
, my question was simple… would you match rates? I got a clear «no» from the kid answering the phone… it is no fault of his… I get that. Don’t you think they should take anything? I was not undercutting them… just asking for the same rate as a course that is actually better… is charging. Golf is not a service… nor is it a product that can be measured and inventoried. It is a person or two on a cart hitting a golf ball… that rate of usage for a cart must be close to the same on every course… so why the big difference in price? No one is on your course playing late in the afternoon… why not take another 10 bucks from me and my son? I cannot afford the 22 for each of us… listen up golf courses… you want to get every person you can out there… take my money… please…but be reasonable… not rigid.

This is a review of Chris Robins’ golf lessons, available at Arthur Pack/​Crooked Tree Golf Course, via Groupon or direct.
Chris is a great instructor. First, he was very flexible in scheduling a lesson, and was willing to work in an early morning time when my friend and I could both get lesson. He’s also great at giving advice without being preachy and really knows how to break down the mechanics of your swing and give tips you can actually practice to improve your game. One of his other cool tools is an iPad app, where can can take a video of your swing and play it back in slow motion, and compare it with the swing patterns of pro golfers. It makes it much easier to visualize where you are now, and where you want your swing to be.
I’m a very infrequent golfer and wasn’t sure if a lesson would be worthwhile or not, but now I’ve got some good things to work on, and I’ll be back for another lesson.

I have played here a lot of times. It is public you get what you pay for but they try. They are very professional and do the best with what they have. You could do a lot worse and most of the folks who play out there are pretty decent if you go out as a single. You won’t finish a round and say to your self man that was a rip off.