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At the center of Li’l Wick sits Watering Hole, a full-service bar that is the hub of the action.


asked them, ‘What do you remember most about the round?’ says course co-designer Bill Brownlee, managing partner of Phoenix-based M3 Companies, which developed Wickenburg Ranch in conjunction with Shea Homes. “They all said the same thing: ‘The music! We’ve never played golf with music.’” Wendell Pickett, managing partner in the Scottsdale-based land planning


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and landscape design firm of Greey/ Pickett, co-designed the Big Wick course with Brownlee and co-authored Li’l Wick as well. He explains the allure of Li’l Wick as the successful realization of three mandates: “It needed to be beautiful, it needed to be golf-worthy and it needed to be fun,” he says. From the early feedback, it’s safe to say, mission accomplished.


Li’l Wick emerged from the former


driving range of the previous incarnation of Wickenburg Ranch’s championship course, which was partially relocated and re-routed in 2016 when a new clubhouse was built. Brownlee and Pickett began thinking about ways they could take advantage of the newly vacant space, with its hilly, cowboy- cool desert setting. Li’l Wick really


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