Wigwam Resort

The Wigwam Resort has operated on a piece of Litchfield Park, Arizona Phoenix west-suburban land since 1929 — making it one of the oldest resort destinations in the American Southwest. The resort originally served Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company executives — Litchfield Park was a planned community Goodyear developed for its workforce — and the destination-resort hospitality evolved through the post-war decades. Robert Trent Jones Sr. designed the championship Gold Course in 1965, and the resort property operates three courses (Gold, Blue, Red) with the Jones Sr. Gold as the primary tournament-tier routing.

The Gold Course plays around 7,400 yards par 72 from the championship markers, with bermuda fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. Jones Sr.'s signature throughout is the strategic-design principles he established across his career — penal bunker complexes, fairway corridors that demand specific tee-shot positioning, and green complexes set on natural rises. The fairways play firm given the Phoenix west-suburban subsoil. The mature landscaping through the resort property — Litchfield Park has been continuously developed since the 1920s — gives the routing visual signature distinct from the modern desert routings of north Scottsdale.

The Wigwam Resort is open to resort guests at premium daily-fee rates and to public daily-fee play. The destination-resort hospitality model includes lodging, dining, and a 1929-era institutional identity that distinguishes the property from the broader Phoenix resort golf landscape. The combination of architectural quality and the resort's hospitality history gives the Wigwam a particular character among Arizona destination properties.

Phoenix west-valley climate gives The Wigwam a playing season of October through May, with the firmest conditions in February and March. Summer afternoons routinely exceed 105°F and the resort operates on shortened seasonal hours through June, July, August, and September.