Silverleaf Golf Club

Overview: Silverleaf Golf Club is a private Tom Weiskopf design in Scottsdale's upper Sonoran Desert, where the course moves through foothills with wide views toward the McDowell Mountains. The layout combines generous corridors with carefully placed bunkers, sloping ground and demanding approach angles, creating a course that rewards calm positioning rather than a single style of play. Its desert setting is present without becoming theatrical: native terrain, distant ridges and carefully framed vistas do most of the visual work.

History: The Silverleaf golf course opened in 2002 as the center of a private Scottsdale community, and the clubhouse followed in 2004. Weiskopf's design was conceived as part of a broader architectural program that gives the club an old-world Mediterranean and Southwestern character, while the golf itself remains rooted in the natural Sonoran landform. The result is a relatively modern course with a deliberate sense of permanence, supported by a clubhouse and landscape intended to age as a unified place.

Did You Know? Silverleaf's clubhouse fountain was found in southwestern France near the Spanish border. The object was likely once a practical village water source, but it now serves as a small architectural link between the club's desert setting and its European design influences.