About Us

After over 40 years of operation, Sedona’s original golf course, The Oakcreek Country Club, remains one of the signature golf experiences in all of Arizona. Oakcreek Country Club has become something rare in the world of leisure golf–a course that combines breathtaking scenery, outstanding course conditions, a truly enjoyable and challenging layout, and affordable membership and daily play rates. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr. and Robert Trent Jones, Jr., the golf course is routed through mature pine trees that cast shade during the warmer months of the year. The traditional layout showcases sweeping doglegs, generous fairways, challenging greenside bunker complexes, and raised bent grass greens. The Jones Design team carved a unique gem of a golf course through the high desert and stunning red rocks. During golfer’s day, views of Sedona’s picturesque red rock formations stand in striking contrast to the lush green of the golf course, which is meticulously kept throughout the year.

The challenge level of Oakcreek Country Club is high, but the course is truly player-friendly. Designed around Robert Trent Jones’ concept that “every hole should be a hard par and an easy bogey”, the course calls for precise tee shots, a sharp short game, and a steady putter, but allows some room for error for mid-to-high handicap players. The course also plays host to two of the biggest tournaments in Northern Arizona. The Sedona Open, a professional tournament hosting up-and-coming local professionals and former PGA and Champions Tour players, is held in the summer. The Sedona Amateur, hosting non-professional golfers of all handicaps and skill levels, is held in the fall.

Amenities on-site include a full-service pro shop, a recently renovated practice area, dining and banquet facilities, and a professional staff ready to cater to their customers, which includes public play, members, tournaments, outings, and weddings. The club also hosts Broken Tee Golf School, offering two-, three-, and five-day golf schools designed around each student’s personal needs. Membership plans at The Oakcreek Country Club are extremely affordable, and members often boast about being part of one of the best golfing deals in Arizona. So if you’re looking for a course to play the next time you visit Sedona, or you’re looking for a beautiful yet affordable country club to join, make plans to come and be a part of Sedona’s finest golf experience! For more information, please visit oakcreekcc.com or call toll-free (888) 284-1660.

A Short History of Oakcreek Country Club

The Village of Oak Creek was originally made up of several homesteads where ranching was the main activity. The ranchers would graze their cattle up on the Mogollon Rim in the summer and bring them into the valley for the winter.

A celebrity of sorts was Fannie Bell Gulick, who arrived in the Village of Oak Creek in the early 1940s from Las Vegas. Ms. Gulick had acquired money and extensive holdings in land from her mining activities… prospecting and filing of claims and her management of a boarding house (res “bordello”) for miners. By the time of her death, 25 years after her arrival, she owned 1,000 acres in the Village of Oak Creek and additional acreage in Grasshopper Flat(now West Sedona). Litigation regarding the property in the trust tied up the land for three years after her death at the age of 80.

On May 21st, 1968, Wild Turkey Inn (then became the Wild Toucan, then John of God, and is now The Village Veterinary Clinic) broke ground in the Village, owners, Seth and Rosemary Williams and Doug and Phoebe Johnson. This new restaurant and bar, facing the #1 Tee (our present-day 6th Tee), was also to include the Golf Shop and space for the new nine-hole golf course.

Hub Goyen, Class “A” PGA Professional, arrived in the Village of Oak Creek in 1968. The first tournament held on the course was a Calloway-style tournament for VOC homesite owners and their guests on September 1st, 1968.

A state golf tournament was held at the Oakcreek Country Club on August 28th, 1971. This was the first Oakcreek Open now called the Sedona Open. Prizes totaled $5000 and there was a field of 30 professionals and 60 amateurs vying for honors. By September 1971 there were 62 residents in the Village of Oak Creek.

May 27th, 1971 was “Grand Opening” day for the back-nine of the 18-hole Robert Trent Jones golf course. This Memorial Day weekend property owners were invited to participate in a free barbecue, hosted by Big Park Development. Paul Ortiz was the Greens Keeper at the time.

In October 1971 the 2nd Oakcreek Open was held at the Oakcreek Country Club, with a purse of $25,000. John Allen assumed the role of Head Golf Professional at the Oak Creek Course on February 15th, 1976. Nobby Walsh was the new assistant professional.

Lou Nichols assumed the role of the Head Golf Professional in 1980 and was employed for a time at a salary paid by the Association. Len Johnston and the golf advisory committee would continue to cope with the management of the golf course.

In 1984 Rusty Byrne replaced Lou Nichols with full responsibility of the golf shop, golf instruction, and the driving range. From this point on, the golf course became stand-alone financially from the association.

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Past Men’s Club Presidents from the 70’s.: