More Than Just a Golf Course
Located in the heart of Scottsdale, McCormick Ranch Golf Club features two unique courses that are tour-tested and amateur-approved. The Palm and Pine Courses have breathtaking views of Camelback and McDowell Mountain and combine well-manicured resort golf course layouts with pockets of desert infusion. Whether you need space for a business meeting, corporate party, holiday event, awards luncheon, wedding, or Mitzvah, McCormick Ranch Golf Club can accommodate your group.
McCormick Ranch hosts hundreds of charitable, corporate, and professional golf groups each year. Submit a tournament request to receive special pricing for groups between 16 and 600 players.
Looking to improve your game? Check out our driving range, two chipping areas, and our putting green, which is one of the largest in the Scottsdale golf scene.
We are open to the public, 365 days a year, and McCormick Ranch offers three different types of annual memberships that provide great value, as well as a loyalty card.
OUR HISTORY
What started nearly 75 years ago as alfalfa fields has since blossomed into one of Arizona’s finest communities. McCormick Ranch was started as an active ranch in 1942 by Merle Cheney and was sold to the McCormicks as the largest ranch located in the City of Scottsdale. Anne Stillman McCormick and her husband Fowler McCormick, grandson of John Rockefeller, continued to expand McCormick Ranch.
By 1949, Anne and Fowler brought 350 of their purebred Black Angus and Ayrshire cattle over from Barrington Farms in Illinois. During that time, Anne purchased an Arabian Stallion, as well as two purebred Mares. After importing these horses from around the globe, she began methodically breeding champion horses. Anne McCormick’s love for Arabian horses put Scottsdale on the map with the Annual Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show that she hosted yearly, on an 80-acre piece of her property called Paradise Park. Every February, the show is now hosted at Westworld of Scottsdale and is the largest Arabian show in the world.
In 1967, the McCormicks donated 100 acres of land to the City of Scottsdale, 30 acres of which were specifically designated as McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park. When Kaiser-Aetna purchased McCormick Ranch in July of 1970, there were 7 square miles on the ranch, with about 600 acres utilized for farming grain products. This was the country’s largest single piece of property sold for a master-planned community within city limits.
McCormick Ranch Golf Club was designed by Desmond Muirhead and opened in 1972 and the courses and dining facilities have been open to the public ever since. Today, McCormick Ranch has grown into a mature community of more than 3,100 acres containing 8,900 homes, condominiums, and apartments, with close to 27,000 residents. In 1979 Edward Pincus purchased McCormick Ranch Golf Club, and to this day, it has remained a family-owned and operated business.