Monthly Archives: May 2015

The 100th annual Southwestern Amateur, which helped launch the careers of many of today’s PGA champions, will be held June 8-13 on the Jack Nicklaus Signature Cochise and Geronimo courses at the Desert Mountain Club in Scottsdale. Desert Mountain will host the event through 2019.

Desert Mountain Golf Club in Scottsdale will host the 100th annual Southwestern Amateur on June 8-13. The prestigious tournament, which has helped launch the careers of many PGA Tour players and has been a staple of Arizona golf, will be contested on Jack Nicklaus’ signature Cochise and Geronimo courses.

In a list where “difficult” is par for the course, Desert Mountain placed five of its six Jack Nicklaus-designed courses on the Phoenix Business Journal’s Most Challenging Golf Courses list, published in April.

When the economy took a hit in 2008, golf was one sector that took some of the biggest lumps. But in 2014 many courses saw improved revenue and a jump in number of rounds played, according to the Scottsdale Convention and Visitors Bureau and Mike Scully, director of golf at Desert Mountain.