Del Lago Golf Club

I worked at del Lago several months ago. The course has always been beautiful and in great shape but I wasn’t too fond of working there. The GM is unprofessional and unorganized. He doesn’t seem like he really knows what he is doing. To this day I still hear that the food is not good and the service isn’t too great either. In my opinion it’s just an establishment that is poorly ran.

Course is in great shape. Greens were true, ball rolled smooth and are very quick. Probably mostly 12 and a few putts I had were very slick. Played with a couple of visitors that were complaining about the quality of the greens. If they could have broken 100 I might have listened to them. Bunkers were the only issue as had rocks in most of them. They were working on some of them but they need attention. Fairways were consistent and in good shape. Beautiful views and challenging course. Great value and a solid test for good players. If you don’t play much, move up a couple tees, it will be more enjoyable.

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT use this venue for your wedding or any other event! While the place is a gorgeous venue to have a wedding and take beautiful sunset pictures, it is a very poorly managed establishment. Nine minutes into our ceremony the fire alarm was activated and the general manager did not know how to turn it off, it continued through the remainder of our ceremony and about 10 minutes into the reception, until a few of our guests, with the help of Del Lago staff who provided a ladder and screwdriver, silenced the alarm by disconnecting the speakers and covered the strobe lights. Then to make matters even worse the general manager, Steve Gummere, worked his way around our wedding telling guests that our children pulled the alarm. He then added injury to insult by trying to give us one bottle of Korbel (a $ 10 bottle of champagne) and offering a very insincere apology. But that is not all, the next day Mr. Gummere took it upon himself to file criminal vandalism charges against our guests for disconnecting the speaker. Once we got the police report we realized it was filled with lies! In the police report he stated that my daughter, I repeat «the bride’s daughter,» pushed the alarm button to activate it. Just a quick note, my daughter arrived at the venue with me at 6:00 PM, never left my side, was my flower girl AND stood with me during the ceremony which started at 6:10 PM. The alarm went off at least two times before we even arrived at the place. The owner finally got word of the catastrophe and has since offered us $ 1000 and a round of golf to make up for a $ 10,500 wedding with over 250 guests. BEWARE of this place!!!

Wedding review, not golf. So my buddy got married there March 7, 2015, a night to remember… one for the record books. Twice prior to the ceremony, some buzzer alarm was activated with the place full of guests. It was deafening. Lasted about 3 – 5 minutes each time then stopped. Then the ceremony. Beautiful scenery, couple and 238 guests. Then the alarm activates 4 minutes into the ceremony. No one could here anything. A few attendees contacted staff to try to shut off the alarm as it had been going off for about 10 minutes, but no one knew how to function the system.
Ultimately, two attendees disabled alarm by unscrewing it. The ceremony was ruined, but as a reminder of the disastrous ceremony, at least the strobe light kept flashing over the bride/groom’s table for another hour… awesome! Here’s where it gets good. The general manager, Steve Gummere, said he didn’t know why it went off, but looked at the children and said he had an idea how it went off. Impossible, the entire party was on the grass, away from the building. Then Steve told the groom who paid for everything, «how do you think I feel»? That’s right, the GM told the paying groom customer to be considerate of his feelings, even though he ran a place that single-​handedly destroyed his wedding.
And the finale. The GM told the groom that he was «going to file federal charges on the guy that disconnected the alarm». This guy is insane never accepted responsibility for the night having been ruined. Fortunately, he gave the groom a $ 7.00 bottle of Corbell to make everything okay. Seems fair since the ceremony was over $ 10,000 right? Do not do business here under this management. Amazing that one guy can single-​handedly destroy a couples dream night.
I must say, the rest of the staff was fantastic. Unfortunately, that was not enough to offset the damage done by the failed leadership and incompetence of Steve Gummere, the general manager.

Humid, but 17.99 is hard to beat. You always get a good deal in the afternoons. It is well maintained and the closest golf club for those in the Rita Ranch/​Vail area.

Played on last Saturday morning. Professional staff, course in very nice condition and a test fo a hacker like me. On course beer cart always on time which was nice. Awesome scenery. Kinda of a drive but I’d go back.

Beautiful scenery. Golf course has to be one of the nicest in the Tucson Area. Food is decent and suprisingly not that pricey.