SilverRock Resort

SilverRock golf offers a unique combination of mountain terrain, challenging golf, and country club quality at a reasonable price. The first thing that stood out to me as the massive land footprint this place sits in. There is a lot of partially developed housing and facilities alongside the course that are actively in progress. Someday it will be quite fancy, I’m sure. The practice area offers a big wide open driving range on fresh cut grass with big buckets of balls to pull from. Once you get in the first tee, you will notice that the course has four different tee boxes, and the tips are a whopping ~7300 yards. From back there, you will definitely feel like you’re playing a whole different course because the bunkers are so large that you’ll need to really strategize to stay out of trouble. In terms of hazards, you have really large, hilly bunkers everywhere. They are well maintained, but you will need to play the number and the line to stay out of trouble. Next, about 2/3 of the holes are right up alongside the mountain with spectacular desert landscape views and tons of lakeside greens and fairways. While the course is mostly flat, the greens and fairways are fairly hilly and undulated, so you will need to play a solid game to get around there unscathed. Overall, the gorgeous Mountain Views, the water features, and the scenic palm trees really elevates the experience. Even though it is partially undeveloped, that does not take away from the experience. Serious golfers will really get their money’s worth out here if you’re looking to challenge yourself on distance, shot shapes, and strategy. Have fun out there!

There’s probably a reason that Silver Rock doesn’t ask for feed back in an email; to avoid embarrassment. I went straight to Google so I could post somewhere. I’ve played this course every year on a friends golf trip. This year was TRAGIC. I know they are struggling with the builder and keeping the place nice as they build but it was a JOKE. The front nine was a disaster. Every tee boxes was hacked up and the fairways were terrible. Grass was dead, brown spots everywhere and hard as a rock. The bunkers were the worst I’ve versus seen. Weeds and bushes growing in them with no sand and like hitting on concrete. The greens were the worst of all. Dead spots, brown spots, no role. On almost very green you had to move your ball just to avoid rolling over a dead area. This course has no right to charge almost $200 prepay and not let you know ahead of time the terrible conditions. Every other course in the area is leave a CC and pay at the shop. Not here! Why? Because they know you’re stuck and can’t back out once you’re there and see the deplorable conditions. On the good note the staff was great and seemed to understand the frustration and the background of the mountains is beautiful. I just how they get this place figured out over the next couple years so they won’t permanently lose golfers. Until they do, avoid this course like the plague. You’ll be sorry is you don’t.

Hate to have to leave a 1 star but this course is in terrible shape (yes it’s early July but others in the area are not as bad as this). They are still trying to figure out the layout of the course, changing holes, patched grass everywhere, back to back par 3s, goofy par 5 layout on a couple of holes and the 18th hole is a joke. It is way too expensive for what you’re getting, should be priced as a municipal not a resort course because it’s not. Once they invest in it, and they will have to do that to sell any houses that are partially started, it’s going to be nice. The mountains and water features are going to be stunning, but right now, especially if you’re from out of town, I wouldn’t recommend this because you will be disappointed. I uploaded photos that make the course look great but they are not reflective of the conditions. The greens are still punched and haven’t recovered, they are losing large parts of some of the greens (just dirt) and fairways, the design of some of the greens lacks any imagination, the tee boxes are comparable to a mediocre muni course (not level, grass is patchy), the bunkers are very deep and steep walled, hard to get in and out of them just physically walking in/out and they have very little sand. There is evidence of construction but not super active which is concerning; but it was quiet so that was a plus. The golf shop is in a temporary trailer with the necessities. The cart attendant swung by once on the 5th hole….that’s not really when you need them, especially when it’s 100F. The starter is nice, the round played in a little over 4 hours, waiting on about 50% of our shots and we were a 3-some so some waiting around is to be expected….the ranger said we were “on pace.” I will come back in 5 years but not if they haven’t solved the issues on the layout of the holes.