PALM SPRINGS GOLF COURSES
Escena Golf Club
18 hole golf course.
1100 Clubhouse View Dr.
760-778-2737
Indian Canyons
Golf 18 holes
1097 East Murray Canyon Drive, Palm Springs CA
760-327-6550
Mesquite Golf and Country Club
Golf 18 holes
2700 E. Mesquite Avenue, Palm Springs CA
760-323-9377
Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort
Golf 36 holes
1885 Golf Club Drive, Palm Springs CA
760-328-1005
Tommy Jacobs Bel Air Greens
Golf 9 holes,
1001 S. El Cielo Road, Palm Springs CA
760-322-6062
Desert Willow Golf Resort
38-995 Desert Willow Drive Palm Desert, CA 92260
760-346-7060
Mountain View Course
The Firecliff’s slightly less formidable sister course offers generous undulating fairways and gorgeous waterscapes. These features are framed by desert landscaping that must be negotiated from time to time.
-6913 yards 73.4 rating 129 slope
Landmark Golf Club-Skins North & Skins South
PGA Tour stars play on these championship courses in the annually televised ‘Skins Game’. Two remarkable courses are situated amidst a natural terrain of white sand mounds and native ‘arid’ flora, both uniquely in unison at the Landmark property. Landmark challenges every golfer with their motto, ‘Got Balls?’
Skins North-7123 yards 74.3 rating 136 slope & Skins South-7229 yards 75.1 rating 136 slope
Desert Falls Country Club
This Ronald Fream design offers a ‘links-style’ course that can provide an extreme test of golf. The course looks much easier than it will play so don’t bite off more than you can chew! Make certain to select the correct tee box for your game and you will be justly rewarded.
-7017 Yards 75.0 Rating 145 slope
The Golf Resort at Indian Wells
Golf 36 holes
44-500 Indian Wells Lane, Indian Wells CA
760-346-4653
Mission Hills Resort
A ‘friendlier’ Pete Dye design with trademark bunkers and undulating greens. A par 70 course that requires an accurate and well-placed tee shot throughout the course.
-6706 yards 73.5 rating 137 slope
Legend Course $
A Palm Springs original! Designed by Billy Bell in 1959 and recently given a subtle facelift by Arnold Palmer. This course offers a traditional feel with many trees in a park like setting. It is a favorite of the novice golfer.
-6600 yards 71.0 rating 117 slope
Tahquitz Creek Golf Academy, Palm Springs
Palm Springs CA
760-328-1005
Troon Golf Institute
Rancho Mirage CA
760-328-4303
Golf Booking Services
Palm Springs Golf Vacations
760-346-3331
Stand By Golf
760-321-2665
BKGGolf
760-413-0840
Golf Practice Ranges
Tahquitz Creek Palm Springs Golf Resort
1885 Golf Club Drive, Palm Springs CA
760-328-1005
Tommy Jacobs' Bel Aire Greens
1001 S. El Cielo Road, Palm Springs CA
760-322-6062
History of Golf
The origin of golf is open to debate among Chinese, French, Dutch and Scottish. Golf was mentioned on February 26 in the year 1297 for the first time in the Netherlands in a city called Loenen aan de Vecht. Here the Dutch played a game with a stick and leather ball. He who hit the ball in a target several hundreds of meters away the least number of times, won. However, golf is generally regarded to be a Scottish invention, as the game was mentioned in two 15th-century laws prohibiting the playing of the game of "gowf". Some scholars, however, suggest that this refers to another game which is much akin to shinty or hurling, or to modern field hockey. They point out that a game of putting a small ball in a hole in the ground using golf clubs was played in 17th-century Netherlands. The term golf is believed to have originated from a Germanic word for "club".
The oldest playing golf course in the world is The Old Links at Musselburgh. Evidence has shown that golf was played on Musselburgh Links in 1672 although Mary, Queen of Scots reputedly played there in 1567.
Golf courses have not always had eighteen holes. The St Andrews Links occupy a narrow strip of land along the sea. As early as the 15th century, golfers at St. Andrews established a customary route through the undulating terrain, playing to holes whose locations were dictated by topography. The course that emerged featured eleven holes, laid out end to end from the clubhouse to the far end of the property. One played the holes out, turned around, and played the holes in, for a total of 22 holes. In 1764, several of the holes were deemed too short, and were therefore combined. The number was thereby reduced from 11 to nine, so that a complete round of the links comprised 18 holes.
The major changes in equipment since the 19th century have been better mowers, especially for the greens, better golf ball designs, using rubber and man-made materials since about 1900, and the introduction of the metal shaft beginning in the 1930s. Also in the 1930s the wooden golf tee was invented. In the 1970s the use of metal to replace wood heads began, and shafts made of graphite composite materials were introduced in the 1980s.
Ming Emperor Xuande is putting for a par?In January 2006, new evidence re-invigorated the debate concerning the origins of golf. Recent evidence unearthed by Prof. Ling Hongling of Lanzhou University suggests that a game similar to modern-day golf was played in China since Southern Tang Dynasty, 500 years before golf was first mentioned in Scotland.
Dongxuan Records (Chinese:東軒錄) from the Song Dynasty describe a game called chuiwan and also include drawings. It was played with 10 clubs including a cuanbang, pubang, and shaobang, which are comparable to a driver, two-wood, and three-wood. Clubs were inlaid with jade and gold, suggesting golf was for the wealthy. Chinese archive includes references to a Southern Tang official who asked his daughter to dig holes as a target. Ling suggested golf was exported to Europe and then Scotland by Mongolian travellers in the late Middle Ages.
A spokesman for the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, one of the oldest Scotland golf organization, said "Stick and ball games have been around for many centuries, but golf as we know it today, played over 18 holes, clearly originated in Scotland."
