La Paloma Country Club occupies a 750-acre site in the Santa Catalina foothills, with its 27 holes threaded through desert washes and up-and-down terrain that rises and falls nearly 200 feet. Architect Tom Fazio routed the Canyon, Hill, and Ridge nines so that many fairways sit in natural arroyos, while tee boxes perch on ridges that overlook the Tucson Valley and the Santa Rita Mountains. The clubhouse, finished in 1984 and clad in rough-hewn stone, sits at the head of a broad wash and incorporates terraces that step down toward the first tee. A 10-acre driving range, short-game area with multiple target greens, and a 25,000-square-foot practice putting green lie just west of the clubhouse. The club maintains its own 4-million-gallon irrigation reservoir fed by on-site wells and a pump station that recirculates treated effluent water, allowing the turf to remain green year-round despite the Sonoran Desert’s scant rainfall.