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Welcome to the Starr Pass Golf Club
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Course Description:
Come to Starr Pass Resort and enjoy our 27 holes of newly designed Arnold Palmer Signature Golf, our beautiful southwestern Clubhouse and Golf Shop, accommodations at the beautiful new JW Marriott Starr Pass, dining in seven restaurants, the luxurious 20,000 square foot Hashani Spa, state-of-the-art fitness center, tennis, swimming and more.
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Golf Hotel Service is your premier hotel reservation service for hotels near golf courses.
For 8 years, we have been the leading provider of reservations for Golf courses around the world. We offer a Golf hotel directory with a complete list sorted by distance from the course. Each listing offers information such as a general property description, amenities and services, number of rooms, prices, special deals and contact information. The Golf Hotel room search allows you to check for hotels that have availability for your selected dates. You can narrow your search by choosing desired amenities and services. All of our hotels have been inspected and approved by AAA and the Mobil Travel Guide, the authorities in hotel and restaurant inspection.
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The course was designed to challenge some of the PGA Tour's great players, and a driver is an oft needed club if playing from the tips at Starr Pass. However, the average golfer who is patient and does not mind grinding through much of the course with long irons and a savvy blade will be rewarded with some par and maybe birdie opportunities.
Cupp and Stadler have made use of some very creative mounding to ensure that the 10 to 20 handicapper is not left out in the cold while trying to get up and down at Starr Pass. For example, the first hole is a relatively short par-4 that gives the deceptive appearance of almost being drive-able from the middle tees.
However, upon teeing off, a solid 250-yard drive will leave a full wedge shot into a green that looks much like a balloon being pinched in the middle (or a bow tie if the previous metaphor was hard to imagine). Typically the hole placement is right in the middle of the pinched area, which in turn provides a landing area that is about fifteen feet deep. But just in case you air mail this seemingly impossible to hit green, Cupp and Stadler have provided a steeply sloped mound directly behind the green that almost serves as a backboard for back shots.
The idiosyncrasies of Starr Pass are many, and the brief history of the course is as rich as the wildlife that surrounds this lone bastion of golf in the Tucson Mountains. This week we will be exploring the history and details of a course that presents one of the more interesting juxtapositions in Tucson golf.
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