Phoenix Country Club

Phoenix Country Club has operated on a piece of central Phoenix, Arizona land since 1899 — making it one of the oldest country clubs in the American Southwest and contemporaneous with the founding-era clubs of the Northeast and Midwest. Harry Collis designed the original routing, and the course has been redesigned multiple times since with significant work through the 1920s and 1930s and continuing agronomic and architectural updates through the post-World War II decades. The PGA Tour's Phoenix Open was played at Phoenix Country Club from 1939 through 1979 — making the club's host relationship one of the longest continuous PGA Tour venues of the mid-twentieth century before the tournament moved to TPC Scottsdale.

The course plays around 6,800 yards par 71 from the back markers, with bermuda fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The yardage is moderate by modern standards, but the routing's mature tree canopy — central Phoenix has been continuously developed since the late 1800s — gives the property a parkland character distinct from the modern desert routings elsewhere in the Phoenix metro. Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, and Johnny Miller all won the Phoenix Open at Phoenix CC during the tournament's four-decade run on the property. The eighteenth hole is the routing's tournament-defining closing hole with a green set against the clubhouse.

Phoenix Country Club is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Phoenix business and professional families with multi-generation ties through the late-1800s founding. The Tour-rotation history through 1979 is part of the institutional identity, and the club has invested in continuous restoration to preserve the routing's mid-twentieth-century vocabulary.

Phoenix climate gives Phoenix Country Club a playing season of October through May, with the firmest conditions in February and March. Summer afternoons routinely exceed 105°F and the course operates on shortened seasonal hours through June, July, August, and September. The mature tree canopy keeps the routing cooler in mid-summer than the surrounding desert courses by a measurable margin.