Alta Mesa Golf Club

Overview: Alta Mesa Golf Club is a private equity club in Mesa with an 18-hole Dick Phelps design. The club describes a 160-acre course reaching 7,127 yards, with six lakes, gently rolling ground, tree-lined views and carefully shaped greens. The result is a traditional parkland presentation within the Sonoran Desert region, where water and mature planting give the layout a greener, more established character than a purely open desert course. Alta Mesa is also designed to be walkable, an increasingly distinctive quality in a Phoenix-area golf market often associated with cart-based resort layouts.

History: Alta Mesa’s current identity is that of a member-owned equity club, and its official material places equal emphasis on golf, water conservation and the wider clubhouse community. The course has remained a recognised Mesa facility, including a top-ten position in Ranking Arizona’s 2025 golf category according to the club. Because no reliable opening year is published in the reviewed material, the history avoids assigning one and instead focuses on the documented Phelps design and the club’s continued stewardship of the property.

Did You Know? Six lakes are integrated into Alta Mesa’s 160-acre layout. They are not simply decorative water features: the club’s description places them alongside tree-lined approaches and precise putting surfaces, so the course’s green appearance is closely tied to its strategic design.