Two master plans sit a couple of miles apart in North Scottsdale, and nearly everyone calls both of them Troon. In one, the golf is public — anyone can book a tee time, and residents join only if they feel like it. In the other, the club is private and members-only, behind a fifty-eight-thousand-square-foot clubhouse named for the Scottish links where its own architect won the Open. Same name. Opposite answer to the question that decides almost everything in North Scottsdale golf.
Most people shopping “Troon” would happily buy in either, and shouldn’t rule one out. But it’s worth knowing which one you’re standing in.
The Troon Guide
There are two Troons
Jomax Road is the line. North of it, along Dynamite Boulevard east of Pima, sits Troon North — an 1,800-acre master plan begun in 1989 and still building out, wrapped around two championship golf courses in the foothills below Pinnacle Peak. South of Jomax sits Troon Village, 1,400 acres arranged around Troon Mountain, which the homeowners own collectively.
The confusion is understandable. Both are gated-subdivision master plans in the same corner of North Scottsdale, both were routed by the same golf architects, Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish, and locals use “Troon” for the whole area without distinguishing. But the two communities answer the membership question in opposite ways, and that is not a detail — it is the thing that shapes who buys, what they pay, and how the resale market behaves.
Troon North: the golf is public
Troon North Golf Club runs its Monument and Pinnacle courses as a semi-private operation. Anyone can book a tee time. Guests of the Four Seasons — whose resort sits inside the community — hold playing privileges. Homeowners are eligible for a membership discount but are under no obligation to take one, and plenty never do. The Dynamite Grille at the clubhouse is open to the public and functions as the neighborhood restaurant, and a boutique stay-and-play retreat opened beside it in early 2026.
Market analysts credit that openness with widening the buyer pool relative to membership-tied communities, and with the resale steadiness the master plan is known for. It is a genuinely different proposition from its neighbors: you are buying a house beside great golf rather than buying access to it. The courses themselves run through some of the most dramatic ground in Scottsdale — house-sized granite boulders, desert arroyos, ancient saguaro — and are consistently ranked among the best public play in the state.
Beneath the master association sit thirteen sub-associations, each governing its own gated subdivision, private streets, and shared facilities, with dues varying by more than a factor of twenty depending which one you are in. The product range runs from attached townhomes and lock-and-leave patio homes through production and semi-custom houses to custom estates on boulder-strewn view lots — Pinnacle Canyon, Talus, Candlewood Estates, Estates at Troon North, Balancing Rock, Stonedge and a couple of dozen more.
Troon Village: the club is private
Troon Country Club, at the center of Troon Village, is the opposite arrangement — private, members-only, and consistently rated among Arizona’s best. Weiskopf and Morrish designed it as well, and the 58,000-square-foot clubhouse is named for Royal Troon in Scotland, where Weiskopf won the 1973 British Open. The community wraps the golf and Troon Mountain itself, which is held in common by the homeowners rather than sold off.
The Village is the older and smaller of the two, and it reads that way on the ground: more mature landscaping, more custom homes, fewer production subdivisions. Windy Walk Estates, Troon Mountain Estates, Glenn Moor, Troon Ridge, Whispering Ridge, Quail Ridge, Skye Top and Ballantrae Ridge sit among roughly twenty named neighborhoods. Despite being smaller and less famous than its northern neighbor, Village homes have tended to carry the higher average sale price of the two — which surprises people who assume the bigger, newer name commands the premium.
Where Troon sits in North Scottsdale golf
North Scottsdale’s golf communities each solve membership differently, and Troon is unusual in containing two answers under one name. At Desert Highlands, membership runs with the deed and activates at closing. At Estancia, it is separate, waitlisted, and occasionally conveys with a home. At Whisper Rock, you cannot buy in at all — you have to be invited. Troon North sits at the open end of that spectrum and Troon Village near the closed end, two miles apart, sharing a name and a pair of architects.
Selling in Troon
The subdivisions are the pricing problem, in both halves. Gate type, private-street arrangements, shared facilities, lot tier and monthly dues vary substantially from one neighborhood to the next, which means a comparable sale a subdivision or two away may not be comparable at all. Pricing a Troon home against the area average — or worse, against the other Troon — rather than against the handful of homes in its own subdivision and its own lot tier is the most common and most expensive mistake made here. The spread is wide enough that the wrong comp set misprices a listing by a margin no amount of marketing recovers.
Marta has sold on both sides of Jomax — a significant sale in Pinnacle Canyon on the Troon North side, and in Quail Ridge and Skye Top within Troon Village — which in an area built from two master plans and fifty-odd subdivisions is the experience that decides the number. If you own here and want a read on where your specific neighborhood and lot actually sit, that’s worth a conversation.