If you pulled into Troon Country Club this summer expecting to warm up before a round, you already know the range is gone. Not trimmed back, not roped off for a tournament weekend. Gone, replaced by construction fencing and dirt, since the first of May.
What's less obvious, even to members who read the club's own announcements, is that this isn't a single project with a single reopening day. It's two projects on two different clocks, and the gap between them matters if you're planning your golf season around it.
What's Actually Under Construction
Troon Country Club began a $4.3 million overhaul of its practice facilities and water storage systems on May 1, 2026. The work is being led by golf course architect Phil Smith, who was Tom Weiskopf's design partner on the original course and has stayed involved with the property ever since. The scope covers three things: a wider practice range with more tee space, a new 12,500 square foot putting green (roughly 4,000 square feet larger than the one it replaces, with more slope and movement built in), and a 50,000 square foot short game area for chipping and pitching.
None of that touches the 18 holes themselves. The golf course has stayed open and playable through the entire construction period. What's closed is the practice ground, the part of the club most members actually use every single day, whether or not they're teeing off.
Two Reopening Dates, Not One
Here's the detail that gets lost in the club's own messaging. The project doesn't reopen all at once.
| Facility | Expected reopening |
|---|---|
| Practice range | Early November 2026, after overseeding |
| New putting green and short game area | December 1, 2026 |
If you've been telling yourself "back by November" and mentally filing this away, you're only half right. The range comes back first, in time for the turf to establish before the cooler season traffic picks up. The green complexes and short game area, the part of your routine that involves actual scoring practice, stays closed for another month after that. Plan your fall accordingly if wedge work and putting are the parts of your game you're trying to sharpen before winter guests arrive.
There's a third date worth knowing too. The club plans to introduce Celebrity Greens artificial turf mats on the south end of the range tee timed to the start of the 2026-27 season, specifically so members can still hit balls during frost delays or after rain when the grass tee is unplayable. That's a small addition, but it's the kind of detail that tells you the club is building for year-round use, not just for the ribbon-cutting.
This Isn't the First Reinvestment, and It Won't Be the Last
Club leadership has been direct about where this fits in a longer pattern. Troon Country Club general manager Garrett Wallace framed the current project as a continuation of momentum that started with the clubhouse renovation completed in December 2017.
"Our members have consistently demonstrated their belief in the long-term vision by reinvesting in the property."
Total member investment in the property since that 2017 renovation now exceeds $30 million. What's worth noticing is what kind of investment this latest round actually is. The 2017 project was clubhouse-facing: intimate dining rooms, updated decor, a 9,000 square foot fitness and wellness center on a newly added second floor. Visible, social, the sort of upgrade members walk through and feel immediately. This project is almost the opposite. Water storage systems and turf agronomy aren't glamorous, and most members will never think about them directly. They're the kind of infrastructure that keeps a 40-year-old course playable through Scottsdale summers without straining a shared water system that every golf property in this corridor depends on.
If you've wondered why the club never seems to be in a settled, finished state, that's the pattern. Visible projects and invisible ones, alternating, both funded the same way.
Don't Confuse Your Club With the One Up the Road
Worth saying plainly, because the names cause real confusion even among longtime residents: Troon Country Club, inside Troon Village, is a private member club. Troon North Golf Club, a few miles north, is a separate, publicly accessible facility with its own two courses and its own practice range. They share a design pedigree (Weiskopf had a hand in both) and a name, and that's about where the overlap ends.
That distinction matters right now because it shapes your options while your home range is out of commission. You can't simply drive up the road and use Troon North's range as a stand-in the way you might assume, since access there follows its own resort and public-play rules rather than any reciprocal arrangement with Troon Country Club members.
Where Troon Village Golfers Are Actually Hitting Balls This Fall
Given that constraint, the practical options for members filling the gap between now and November tend to be the nearby public and daily-fee facilities that don't require a membership handshake:
- Grayhawk Golf Club, about 15 minutes south, has a 22-bay grass driving range open daily from sunrise to sunset, along with its own putting green and short game area.
- Kierland Golf Club, further south near the 101, offers a similarly full practice setup attached to its three nine-hole courses, with a spacious range and putting green open the same daylight hours.
- TopGolf, for members who want climate-controlled bays rather than an open-air range, runs from 9 a.m. to midnight and doesn't require any club affiliation at all.
None of these replicate the feel of a members-only range with no wait for a bay, but they cover the basic need: somewhere to keep a swing in shape until your own facility comes back online.
The Dining Side Hasn't Skipped a Beat
One thing the construction hasn't touched is the clubhouse's food and beverage program, which continues to run on its own schedule regardless of what's happening on the range. Vista, the club's primary a la carte dinner venue, still runs its weekly Prix Fixe menu built around Chef Carlos. Quail's Nest and The Roost keep their indoor-outdoor dining and lounge hours, and the Poolside Grill is open for anyone coming off the course or the pool deck. If you've been avoiding the clubhouse because you assumed the whole property was under construction, that assumption doesn't hold. The disruption is contained to the practice ground.
The Practical Version, for Your Calendar
The range comes back in early November, in time to catch the start of the season most Troon Village residents actually use their membership hardest. The putting green and short game complex take an extra month, landing around December 1. In between, Grayhawk and Kierland are the closest full practice facilities that don't require guest privileges you may not have. And whatever frustration the closed range causes this fall, it's worth remembering this is the same club that's put $30 million back into its own ground since 2017, mostly on projects members never see until the fencing comes down.
That rhythm, quiet infrastructure work between the more visible upgrades, tends to be a better predictor of a club's long-term health than any single ribbon-cutting. For Troon Village, this fall's closed range is just the latest entry in a pattern that's been running for nine years.
If you're weighing a move within Troon Village, or simply want a clearer read on how this neighborhood actually functions day to day before you commit to a purchase or sale here, the team at Fine Homes Group knows this corridor from the inside. Request a complimentary home valuation or schedule a white-glove consultation whenever you're ready to talk specifics.
