The new Players Course is one of Indian Wells Resort's two "core" courses you can play on a Palm Springs golf vacation.
I don’t envy the staff at the Indian Wells Golf Resort right now. First, they have to help host the Skins Game this weekend, the nationally televised event being played on their Celebrity Course, and then they have to follow that up next week by unveiling the newest course to play on a Palm Springs golf vacation, their John Fought-designed Players Course. Talk about needing a breather.
Technically, Fought, who did the restoration work at Pine Needles prior to this year’s U.S. Women’s Open, redesigned the course, but the resort makes a point of pointing out that, “the mature tree cover and geographical location are about the only two things that the original East Course (opened in 1986) and the new Players Course have in common. By design, the Players Course is completely different than the original golf course.”
Thankfully, it’s not completely different from the Celebrity Course; both were laid out to afford the best views of the surrounding mountains and both are “core” golf courses, devoid of man-made structures like roads and houses, a rare treat on a Palm Springs golf vacation. Read more →
Play SilverRock before it's mobbed by the masses.
If you want to play “the next big thing” on your Palm Springs golf vacation before it gets mobbed by the masses, play the Arnold Palmer-designed course at SilverRock Resort in La Quinta, Calif.
Just like Charley Hoffman, the formerly unknown rookie PGA Tour player who won the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic yesterday, SilverRock will soon be “discovered” when word spreads that this city-owned, public course will be a regular part of the tournament hosting rotation starting in 2008. Read more →
Desert Gold: The Norman course at PGA West.
The PGA Tour is in Palm Springs this week, contesting the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic at PGA West, the famous six-course smorgasbord in the California desert.
While the pros will be feasting on the Arnold Palmer Private Course (the leader was already minus seven at press time), you may have to settle for playing one of the facility’s other tracks on your Palm Springs golf vacation, as this one’s name would suggest. Read more →
The Celebrity Course is a rising star in Palm Springs.
There will be 30 new card-carrying members of the PGA Tour by day’s end, so, in honor of the final round of Q-School, the infamous pressure cooker taking place today in idyllic Palm Springs, we thought we’d update you on an exciting new redesign that recently re-opened in the area.
The last time we visited the Indian Wells Golf Resort in Palm Springs, we found ourselves impressed with its hotels but less than jazzed by its two nondescript Ted Robinson courses. Read more →
