Popular and highly ranked Arizona golf course to undergo multi-million dollar renovation

Popular and highly ranked Arizona golf course to undergo multi-million dollar renovation
A popular and highly ranked Arizona golf course has closed for the summer for a multi-million dollar renovation.
Quintero Golf Club, in the suburb of Peoria northwest of Phoenix, closed June 2 for the four-month project.
Quintero is ranked second in Arizona in the recently released Golfweek's Best 2025: Top public-access golf courses in every state, ranked. The course opened in 2000, and this summer's renovation marks the first significant work on the property since it opened.
Rees Jones, Quintero's original architect, will oversee the work. Total Turf is the contractor. The renovation calls for a rebuild of all 18 green complexes, work that will include a green resurfacing them with 007XL Bent grass. All tee boxes will be reworked, laser-leveled and resurfaced with 419 Bermuda grass. There are 65 bunkers on the golf course and every one of them will be renovated with new drainage, new bunker linkers and filled with new Augusta white sand.
The renovation is expected to be completed by late September. The course will reopen in October after the fall overseed.
'We are so excited to have RJI and Total Turf involved in this project with the primary focus on making Quintero Golf Club even better than before,' said Quintero's GM Mike Poe.
The club will also get a renovated practice facility. The practice tee area will be leveled and resurfaced and the practice green will be rebuilt.
Quintero, a Troon managed propery, is a par-72 course that tips out at 7,249 yards.

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