For Panks, Aguila is his 25th layout in Arizona and he's already busy on two more - FireRock Country Club in Fountain Hills and Whirlwind on the Gila River Reservation. Aguila is said to have a feel similar to his recent design at The Legacy Resort. All those funds came from the profits of the other four municipal courses - Papago, Cave Creek, Encanto and Maryvale. That's part of the reason it took so long to get built. We used no tax dollars to build Aguila, so the revenue had to come from other places.
Fife expects the course to make some of that money back right away.
Rivaling Papago in terms of quality and design, he thinks Aguila will soon rival the heavy traffic that Papago and Cave Creek currently receive. There are thousands of new homes, as well as two new schools near the course. It's out a ways for a lot of people in the Valley, so it will be interesting to see if they will travel out there. Once they do, they will come back. Paul Alberts of Union Hills thinks it was worth the drive to be one of the first to tee it up at Aguila.