Golf Course
Whirlwind Golf Club
The Gila River Indian Community has woven championship golf with its rich cultural heritage to create Whirlwind Golf Club. It offers 36 holes of championship golf designed by Gary Panks -- 7017-yard Devil’s Claw course and the 7,218-yard Cattail course – both of which will be used for the Torii Hunter Celebrity Golf Classic.
The Gila River Indian Community has woven 
championship golf with its rich cultural heritage to create Whirlwind Golf Club. It offers 36 holes of championship golf designed by Gary Panks -- 7017-yard Devil’s Claw course and the 7,218-yard Cattail course – both of which will be used for the Torii Hunter Celebrity Golf Classic.
The Devil’s Claw course reflects the plant palette indigenous to the Gila River - Mesquite, Saguaro, Palo Verde, and Cottonwood blend with native grasses to recreate the Gila River as it was when the waters still flowed on the reservation. It's design is dominated by gradual elevation changes, multi-tiered greens, and challenging bunker design. This course hosted the Gila River Buy.Com Classic in years 2001 and 2002.
The Cattail Course complements the Devil’s Claw but lends a whole new flavor to championship golf at Whirlwind. While the Devil's Claw features high mounding and significant fairways elevation changes, its sister course, the Cattail derives its design challenges in the opposite direction, as deep canyons and pristine lakes dictate the design.
Golfers will enjoy breathtaking views of desert landscape and nearby mountain ranges for this private/exclusive tournament The readers of The Arizona Republic named Whirlwind the top golf course in the Phoenix area in a recent poll, and the 28,000-member online community of Greenskeeper.org voted Whirlwind as having the best playing conditions of any public golf course in the State of Arizona!
Practice round tee times, at a discounted rate, can be secured once a paid registration is completed. Golfers will receive information in a confirmation email.
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