There’s a rock in the middle of a green in Scottsdale. But it’s not a loose impediment. Don’t even think of moving it. You couldn’t if you tried. To call it a rock doesn’t really do it justice. It’s a 30,000-pound boulder, and it didn’t get where it is by accident.
Its placement is key to both strategy and aesthetics at The Six Shooter, a new short course at Scottsdale Country Club, which isn’t a country club in the closed-off sense. It’s open to the public. The “People’s Country Club” is how it bills itself.
It’s hard to be a truly populist club if you don’t have a course that anyone can handle. The Six Shooter is meant to be just that. Its 10-hole routing requires some skill if you want to score, but it sets up in a way that lets you bunt it around…