{"id":2998,"date":"2010-11-10T16:55:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/golftriparizona.com\/coursedirectory\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2011-01-25T16:22:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T16:22:36","slug":"rancho-manana-golf-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/rancho-manana-golf-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Rancho Manana Golf Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Buzz:<\/strong><\/span> Contrary to popular belief, ma\u00f1ana doesn\u2019t mean \u201ctomorrow\u2019\u2019 in Spanish. It means \u201cnot today.\u2019\u2019 But considering you\u2019ve come all the way to Arizona to play awe-inspiring golf, why wait when the Bill Johnston-designed Rancho Manana is calling your name? Actually Johnston was a bit of a miracle worker, as he carved Rancho Manana out of a mere 60 acres back in 1989, when it was originally called Eagle Creek. After it languished for years, Johnston rebuilt it again and the course was reborn as Rancho Manana even if the tight fairways and short par 4s and 5s didn\u2019t get much larger.<\/p>\n

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#4 Rancho Manana Golf Club<\/p><\/div>\n

Still, Rancho Manana is what it is, a short, fun, quick round of golf with amazing views in every direction. The setting is straight out of the wild, wild West, which is poetic justice considering the golf course site served as an outpost for the U.S. Calvary and the Pony Express, and the small brick building where riders dropped for a fresh horse and a beer and a shot still stands today. In the early 1940s the golf course was a dude ranch called \u2013 what else? \u2013 Rancho Manana.<\/p>\n

The signature hole is No. 4, a 300-yard par 4 that runs up the hill all the way up the hill with an arroyo slashing across the fairway at about the 200-yard mark \u2013 perhaps the shortest No. 1 handicap hole in Arizona. Of the two nines, the front is prettier while the back packs more of a punch. If you\u2019re \u201cright down the middle of the fairway,\u2019\u2019 Rancho Manana is a good walk not spoiled, and you can score.<\/p>\n

But if you\u2019re the least bit wayward, the best score comes after golf at the tasty Tonto Bar & Grill, one of the better cantinas associated with golf anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Buzz: Contrary to popular belief, ma\u00f1ana doesn\u2019t mean \u201ctomorrow\u2019\u2019 in Spanish. It means \u201cnot today.\u2019\u2019 But considering you\u2019ve come all the way to Arizona to play awe-inspiring golf, why wait when the Bill Johnston-designed Rancho Manana is calling your name? Actually Johnston was a bit of a miracle worker, as he carved Rancho Manana out of a mere 60 acres back in 1989, when it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88891,"featured_media":4660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cave-creek","category-central-arizona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arizonagolfauthority.com\/coursedirectory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}