Building a Scottsdale Golf Trip Around the WM Phoenix Open

The WM Phoenix Open is the one week a year Scottsdale golf and a fixed calendar date line up on their own. As of July 2026, the tournament's own site lists the next edition for February 8-14, 2027 at TPC Scottsdale's Stadium Course, confirmed via the live countdown on wmphoenixopen.com.

Visit Phoenix's WMPO page, the destination bureau's official write-up, still showed the completed February 2-8, 2026 event and that year's ticket tiers when checked in July 2026. Sources.md flags this page as one that gets reissued annually, and this is why: it hadn't rolled over to 2027 yet. For dates and tickets, the tournament's own site is the source that's actually current.

Tournament dates and ticket structure

The 2027 dates are locked: February 8-14, 2027. That's tournament week proper, not just Sunday's final round, so plan lodging around the full window if you want practice-round access too.

Ticket pricing for 2027 wasn't published as of the July 2026 check. wmphoenixopen.com's ticket page noted that passes go on sale starting in October, ahead of the February event, and that prices are subject to change each year. The tier structure itself has stayed consistent enough to plan around:

• General Admission: free Monday and Tuesday, then a paid gate Wednesday through Sunday.
• Kiva Club: a covered hospitality space between the 10th green and 17th tee, sold as a step up from general admission.
• Additional hospitality tiers (Skybox-style venues, clubs near the par-3 16th) exist above Kiva Club, priced and named fresh each season.

For the 2026 event, as a reference point for how the tiers scale: General Admission ran $75 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday, and $125 on Friday and Saturday, both plus fees. Kiva Club ran $193 per person on Wednesday, Thursday, or Sunday and $243 on Friday or Saturday, with a two-ticket minimum. Treat those as last year's numbers, not this year's. Check wmphoenixopen.com directly once the October on-sale window opens for actual 2027 prices.

Playing TPC Scottsdale as a public golfer

The tournament's home course isn't private. TPC Scottsdale's own site describes both the Stadium Course and the Champions Course as "two legendary championship courses both open to the public to enjoy."

The Stadium Course is the one you've watched on TV: the 16th hole stadium hole, the 17th's driveable green, and the same routing the pros play every February. The Champions Course is the quieter sibling next door, built for resort and daily-fee play rather than a broadcast, and it's generally the more affordable round of the two.

Green fees at both courses move with season, day, and time of day, and TPC.com doesn't post a fixed rate on its own pages. The booking engine (tpcscottsdale.ezlinksgolf.com) sits behind bot-detection that blocked live automated verification for this piece, so no specific dollar figure gets printed here. Pull the actual rate for your travel dates from the live booking page or by calling the course directly before you build a budget around a number you saw somewhere else. That's doubly true in the weeks right after the tournament, when Stadium Course demand (and pricing) both spike.

One figure TPC.com does post directly: an annual TPC Pass runs $653 plus tax, which only pencils out if you're playing multiple rounds a year at this one facility. Most trip golfers will book single rounds instead.

Other Scottsdale-area courses

Scottsdale doesn't run out of golf once you leave TPC's gates. Experience Scottsdale, the destination's official visitor site, puts the area total at more than 200 golf courses, split across daily-fee, resort, and private access.

Two worth building a trip itinerary around, per Experience Scottsdale's own description:

• Grayhawk Golf Club: "one of Scottsdale's most celebrated daily fee golf clubs," open since 1994 and open to public play.
• McCormick Ranch Golf Club: a public 36-hole facility in the middle of Scottsdale, with a restaurant and lounge attached, useful for a lower-key round between bigger-ticket days.

Gainey Ranch Golf Club also comes up on Experience Scottsdale's list as one of the area's top-rated courses, but it's private, restricted to members and resort guests, not a walk-up public booking. Good to know before you build it into a public-golfer itinerary by mistake.

Read more on the golf side of this site if you're stacking multiple Scottsdale rounds around tournament week and want course-strategy notes that aren't specific to this one trip.

Getting there and where to stay

Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX) is the airport for this trip, and it's not a connections-only outpost. It's an American Airlines hub, with American running the largest daily schedule out of the airport, alongside Southwest and Frontier operating from PHX as a base and Delta running a substantial daily schedule of its own, per Sky Harbor's own route information (confirmed live via search-indexed cache; the airport's site blocked a direct automated fetch). That spread means nonstop or one-stop access from most major U.S. hubs, including Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, New York, and Los Angeles, without having to route through a third city.

Tournament week itself is peak demand for both flights and hotel rooms in Scottsdale and greater Phoenix. Booking early matters more here than for a generic Scottsdale trip any other week of the year.

Whether that flight and the hotel next to TPC Scottsdale are better paid for in cash or points is its own question, and it's a big enough one that it gets its own answer. Our points hub covers hotel points strategy for Scottsdale stays specifically: which programs have properties near TPC Scottsdale, and how to think about redeeming for a week where cash rates run well above normal.

Planning the week

A WM Phoenix Open trip works best as three layers stacked on one calendar week: the tournament itself (grounds tickets or a hospitality tier, booked once October pricing is live), a round or two at TPC Scottsdale on the Stadium or Champions Course (booked separately from tournament tickets, on the public tee sheet), and a flight and hotel locked in well before the February crowd does.

None of those three pieces are the same booking, and none of them are optional if you want the full week rather than just a ticket. If a long flight to Phoenix is part of the plan, a course-themed puzzle book is a reasonable way to burn the downtime before you're actually standing on the first tee.

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