Arizona Oddities

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Your Guides
  • Departments
    • Art
    • Dose of History
    • Culture
    • Natural Surroundings
    • Odd Observations
    • Weather Talk
    • Food & Dining
    • Small Town Scene
    • Recreation
    • Only in Arizona
  • Get the Books
  • Contact Us

logo

Arizona Oddities

  • Home
  • Your Guides
  • Departments
    • Art
    • Dose of History
    • Culture
    • Natural Surroundings
    • Odd Observations
    • Weather Talk
    • Food & Dining
    • Small Town Scene
    • Recreation
    • Only in Arizona
  • Get the Books
  • Contact Us
Only in ArizonaRecreation
Home›Only in Arizona›Golfing on the (Oiled) Sands in Apache Junction

Golfing on the (Oiled) Sands in Apache Junction

By Sam Lowe
August 29, 2014
2629
1

golf sandAPACHE JUNCTION — There are almost 200 golf courses in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The Snake Hole Golf and Country Club isn’t one of them because its members march to the beat of a different five-iron.

It’s a nine-hole, par 29 course, the longest hole is just over 100 feet, and all its greens are small. And they’re all brown because they’re made of sand, not grass. In fact, there’s no grass anywhere on the course.

Only sand because it’s located on five acres of desert.

Membership is limited to residents of the Countryside RV Resort, located just across the road so the golfers don’t have to put a lot of miles on their carts.

And because there’s no grass, there’s no need for professional greenskeepers. The members take care of upkeep and since the greens are sand, they have to oil them so the wind doesn’t blow them into the next county. They get the used oil from fast-food outlets in the area, which often leads to the question: “Would you like fries with that double bogey?”

The course is on Idaho Road just north of the Superstition Freeway.

(Visited 488 times, 1 visits today)

Related Posts:

  1. Caring for Creepy Crawlers in Apache Junction
  2. Apache Junction Artist Transforms Boring Backyard Concrete Walls
  3. From Hideaway to Mass Grave: Apache Death Cave Near Winslow
  4. Tree Stump Sculptures Adorn Chandler Golf Course
  5. The Legend of Apache Cave
Tagsapache junctionsports

1 comment

  1. SaraD 24 August, 2016 at 10:52 Reply

    I think Roscoe G. Willson did an “Arizona Days and Ways” column on this course back in the day. I may be wrong about which course it was, but I seem to remember that it was in the Apache Junction area and rattlesnakes were one of its hazards.

Leave a reply Cancel reply

Arizona Oddities Archive

Most Popular Posts

  • How to Keep Scorpions Away from Your Home
  • How to Keep Javelinas Away from Your Yard
  • What’s With All the Backyard Concrete-Block Fences…
  • Did You Know it’s Against the Law to Grow…
  • Can You Get a Sunburn Under Water?

This Week Past Years

2020

  • Scottsdale is Home to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Desert-Inspired Winter Haven

2017

  • Mid-Century Modern Architecture Still Vibrant in Phoenix

2016

  • An Educated Ghost Lost on Campus

2015

  • Get a Whiff of This Old Arizona Party Spot

2014

  • Hear the Balladeer's Ballads at Arizona Folklore Preserve

2013

  • Featured Artist: Pete the Miner
  • Abraham Lincoln’s Bodyguard and Other Civil War Soldiers Buried in Southern Arizona

2012

  • Celebrating the Centennial (sort of) with a Message, Compilation from Clay Thompson
  • Celebrating the Centennial: 10 People that Shaped Arizona
  • Celebrating the Centennial: My Long Distance Love Affair With Arizona
  • Billy Stiles: Lawman-Outlaw-Lawman

2011

  • Trivia on Arizona Cities & Towns: Can You Pass?

2010

  • Doc Flower: One of Old Arizona’s Great Con Men
  • Recent

  • Popular

  • Comments

  • Find a Famous Writer and Explorer's Mountain Retreat in Greer

    Find a Famous Writer and Explorer’s Historic Mountain Retreat in Greer

    By Taylor Haynes
    July 31, 2020
  • thousands of Mexican free tail bats make Phoenix tunnel their summer home

    Thousands of Mexican Free-Tail Bats Make Phoenix Tunnel Their Summer Home

    By Taylor Haynes
    July 17, 2020
  • How to Keep Scorpions Away from Your Home

    By Andrea Aker
    January 3, 2011
  • Javelina

    How to Keep Javelinas Away from Your Yard

    By Andrea Aker
    November 23, 2011
  • Phil Motta
    on
    August 27, 2021

    Why Does Downtown Phoenix Seem to Have Two Downtowns?

    I know this post ...
  • Carol
    on
    October 17, 2020

    The Tucson Artifacts are the Southwest’s Greatest Hoax

    lol ... these "clues" ...

Follow us

© Copyright 2009 – 2023 Aker Ink, LLC :: Arizona Oddities is published by Aker Ink.