The RANCHO NINE is named after a sister course in Cave Creek, Arizona, Rancho Manana. Requiring first and last drives to carry the Santa Cruz River, featuring the famous Tin Cup par five and the infamous Tubac Triangle, Rancho is an adventure! Several scenes from Tin Cup were filmed along the way, including the ‘break every club but the 7-iron’ scene, filmed at #3 tee box and the ‘goad Craig Stadler into going for the green in two and then get fired by Don Johnson scene on the par 5 #4, which is memorialized by the Tin Cup Lake plaque. You will find the plaque only if you hit into the lake and take a drop! The Triangle is simply a bear. From the tips you have, in order, a 454 yard par 4, a 254 yard (!!) par 3 and a 651 yard par 5 (the Trainwreck). Even playing from the blues the distances are daunting. And of course there is a lake guarding the Par 5 green from 125 yards out all the way in. Add all of this up with a very wilderness feel and you have an exciting, picturesque and very challenging golf adventure, and a lasting memory.
