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How to Play Las Sendas Golf Club

Course strategy, tee-specific yardages and a hole-by-hole game plan for Las Sendas Golf Club in Mesa, AZ.

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Las Sendas Golf Club golf course

Las Sendas Golf Club

Mesa, AZ
Silver tees · 6,823 yards
COURSE OVERVIEW

About Las Sendas Golf Club

Designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. in the high foothills of the Usery Mountains in East Mesa, Las Sendas Golf Club is a target-style desert course offering wide fairway landing zones, dramatic elevation changes, desert washes, and highly contoured green complexes.

COURSE STRATEGY

How to play Las Sendas Golf Club

Off the tee

Fairways are generally wider than they appear from elevated tees, but driving demands accuracy to avoid native Sonoran Desert vegetation, lateral penalty areas, and strategic fairway bunkering. Sloping topography and natural valley effects influence roll, encouraging smart club selection over raw distance.

Elevation & terrain

Positioned nearly 800 feet above the Phoenix valley, dramatic uphill and downhill holes require club adjustments, particularly on mountain-bound approaches. Swirling mountain winds and elevation shifts make precise distance control essential.

Approach play

Approach shots often face forced carries over desert washes, false fronts, and deep greenside bunkers. Missing on the proper side is critical, as overshooting greens frequently leads to steep drop-offs into desert hazard areas.

Around the greens

Greens are undulated and multi-tiered, often protected by deep bunkers, false fronts, and dramatic slopes influenced by the surrounding terrain. Chipping from off-target sides can leave extremely fast, downhill putts across distinct spines and tiers.

Best way to play it

Prioritize course management and disciplined club selection off the tee over distance. Aim for the centers of green complexes to avoid surrounding desert hazards and severe slopes, accepting conservative pars where trouble looms.

Key takeaways

  • Respect the elevation changes by adding or subtracting clubs when playing uphill into the Usery Mountains or downhill toward the valley.
  • Desert terrain borders every fairway, so accuracy and smart target lines take priority over distance off the tee.
  • Greens feature heavy contours, false fronts, and valley slopes, making middle-of-the-green targets the smartest play.
YOUR GAME PLAN

Hole-by-hole game plan

Hole
Par
Yards
HCP
Strategy
1
4
446
1
Play conservatively to the left of the water hazard to secure fairway, accepting a longer uphill approach shot, or take an aggressive line over the pond to shorten the hole while avoiding the left fairway bunker.
Your 240 yd driver · ~206 yards remaining by raw distance.
2
5
559
9
Position the tee shot down the fairway away from right-side desert hazard. Play a controlled second shot to set up an approach into an elevated green complex.
Your 240 yd driver · ~319 yards remaining by raw distance. Plan this primarily as a three-shot hole.
3
4
432
7
Consider laying back off the tee with a fairway wood or hybrid aimed toward the middle-left fairway to avoid the narrowing landing zone and right-side desert. Fire approaches toward the center of the narrow green.
Your 240 yd driver · ~192 yards remaining by raw distance.
4
4
422
3
Lay back short of the wash into the fairway sweet spot to avoid bunker trouble, leaving a steep uphill approach into a green sloped heavily back-to-front.
Your 240 yd driver · ~182 yards remaining by raw distance.
5
3
192
15
Add extra club to account for the uphill elevation rise and focus purely on landing in the center of the two-tiered green, avoiding the deep left bunker, rear mountain desert, and short-right boulders.
6
5
519
11
Play a conservative tee shot down the left side with a fairway wood to clear the left fairway bunkers, or attempt a riskier carry over the right desert corner. Target the small two-tiered green carefully on approach.
Your 240 yd driver · ~279 yards remaining by raw distance. Plan this primarily as a three-shot hole.
7
3
119
17
Select a precise short club off the tee, taking aim at the middle of the two-tiered green while clearing the frontal greenside bunker and avoiding penalty area left or long.
8
4
406
13
Aim tee shots to the right of the fairway bunkers for a safe angle, or carry the sand if playing aggressively. Ensure the approach shot avoids the greenside bunker and does not fly past into the rear penalty area.
Your 240 yd driver · ~166 yards remaining by raw distance.
9
4
406
5
Target the primary fairway landing zone short of the desert divide, avoiding the left red penalty area. Club up on the uphill approach to reach the green safely while using short-left as a bailout zone.
Your 240 yd driver · ~166 yards remaining by raw distance.
10
5
466
18
Hit a solid drive down the open fairway, then lay up along the right side for the ideal angle into the green, taking care to avoid the large front bunker and desert behind.
Your 240 yd driver · ~226 yards remaining by raw distance. The green may be within range for your second shot depending on lie and conditions.
11
3
135
10
Add distance for the 30-foot elevation rise and favor the back-center of the green to account for the valley effect slope toward the back-right corner.
12
4
433
2
Favor the right side of the fairway to bypass the dogleg bunker, or carry the bunker if aggressive. Approach shots must clear the false front while avoiding the left greenside bunker and right desert.
Your 240 yd driver · ~193 yards remaining by raw distance.
13
4
425
4
Favor the left side of the fairway to compensate for the rightward valley slope. Execute a precise wedge approach to the middle of the small green, avoiding the right bunkers and front-left drop-off.
Your 240 yd driver · ~185 yards remaining by raw distance.
14
3
194
16
Aim toward the back-center of the green surface off the tee to clear the front flank bunkers and desert wash angle, avoiding over-shooting into rear desert.
15
5
581
6
Drive between the left hills and right fairway bunker. Lay up along the left portion of the fairway to gain a clean angle into the small green while staying clear of steep right drop-offs and deep bunkers.
Your 240 yd driver · ~341 yards remaining by raw distance. Plan this primarily as a three-shot hole.
16
3
179
12
Club up slightly and aim for the center of the narrow green regardless of pin location to avoid the deep front-left bunker, swirling winds, and steep right-side desert drop-off.
17
4
347
8
Lay up between the fairway bunkers with a fairway wood or long iron, or position driver down the right side. Keep approach shots below the hole on the steeply sloped green complex.
Your 240 yd driver · ~107 yards remaining by raw distance.
18
5
562
14
Position the tee shot to the left-center fairway short of the second water hazard. Lay up along the fairway angle to set up a short third shot into the guarded green, avoiding water front-right and rear out-of-bounds.
Your 240 yd driver · ~322 yards remaining by raw distance. Plan this primarily as a three-shot hole.

Course information and strategy are provided for planning purposes. Yardages, course setup, hazards and playing conditions can change. Always confirm current course information before your round.