PGA WEST Golf Courses: Which One Should You Play?
PGA WEST has no fewer than nine golf courses. That’s not a golf club, it’s a kingdom. Its footprint sprawls across La Quinta at the eastern end of the Coachella Valley, 30 minutes past Palm Springs, out where the valley widens and the Santa Rosa Mountains start holding the horizon down. Nine courses. Pete Dye, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Arnold Palmer and Tom Weiskopf, all of them on one property, which is a collection of names no other place in America can put on a scorecard. Five of the nine you can play. Four you cannot, unless you know somebody.…
PGA WEST Mountain Course: Why Pete Dye’s Other Desert Course stole the show
We played the Stadium Course at PGA WEST one morning and the Mountain Course the next. It is the best way to understand either of them. Pete Dye's first desert design is shorter, gentler and more beautiful than its famous neighbour, and it changes what you think about Pete Dye…
PGA WEST Stadium Course: Pete Dye’s Desert Monster is wonderfully fierce
Water, railroad ties, a bunker sunk twenty feet below the green and an island called Alcatraz. Pete Dye was asked to build the hardest golf course in the world and very nearly managed it. Our round on the Stadium Course at PGA WEST, and what it actually asks of you…
Classic Club Palm Desert: Where a Round of Golf Becomes an Occasion
Classic Club in Palm Desert is an Arnold Palmer design with Bob Hope Classic history, generous scale and a real sense of occasion. From the warm welcome and excellent practice facilities to the wind-shaped strategy and Bellatrix Restaurant & Wine Bar, this is desert golf designed to feel like a complete day…