Palms at Palm Valley Golf Club

Palm Valley Golf Club's Palms course is an Arthur Hills design located in Goodyear, Arizona, part of the Phoenix metropolitan area's western suburbs. Hills, known for his strategic use of natural terrain and emphasis on playability across skill levels, routed this course through the Sonoran Desert landscape characteristic of the region. The design incorporates the area's native vegetation, including saguaro cacti and palo verde trees, alongside the palm trees that give the course its name.

The layout reflects Hills's typical approach of offering multiple teeing grounds to accommodate different playing abilities while presenting strategic options from tee to green. Desert courses in this area generally feature target-style golf with defined playing corridors, waste areas, and the occasional water feature to add variety to the challenge. The relatively flat topography of Goodyear allows for generous fairways, though Hills likely introduced contouring and bunkering to create visual interest and strategic decisions.

Palm Valley operates as a semi-private facility, serving both members and daily-fee players. The club is situated in a residential community that developed during the Phoenix area's growth in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Goodyear's position west of Phoenix places it in a slightly less congested part of the valley, offering golf in a more spacious setting. The course provides a representative example of desert golf design from an architect who built numerous courses throughout Arizona and the broader Southwest during his career.