Desert Dunes Golf Club is host of the Desert Dunes Classic on the Canadian Tour.
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3.3
2367 Reviews (2367)
5 Stars
430
4 Stars
990
3 Stars
539
2 Stars
232
1 Stars
176
Conditions
3.0
Value
3.5
Layout
4.2
Friendliness
4.1
Pace
3.8
Amenities
3.0
63.7%
Recommend this course
1715 out of 2367 reviews
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Average Rating
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3.4
158 Reviews (158)
5 Stars
22
4 Stars
65
3 Stars
42
2 Stars
19
1 Stars
10
Conditions
3.2
Value
3.6
Layout
4.2
Pace
3.8
Amenities
3.2
StaffFriendliness
4.0
69.0%
Recommend this course
109 out of 158 reviews
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3.4
210 Reviews (210)
5 Stars
30
4 Stars
83
3 Stars
55
2 Stars
26
1 Stars
16
Conditions
3.1
Value
3.6
Layout
4.2
Pace
4.0
Amenities
3.2
StaffFriendliness
4.1
68.6%
Recommend this course
144 out of 210 reviews
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About

Holes 18
Type Public
Style Links
Par 72
Length 6876 yards
Slope 136
Rating 74.2
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Desert Dunes Golf Club - Robert Trent Jones Jr
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Course Details

Year Built 1989
Fairways Bermuda Grass
Greens Bermuda Grass
Golf Season Year round
Architect Robert Trent Jones, Jr. (1989) Donald Knott (1989) Gary Linn (1989)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - included in green fees
Clubs Yes
GPS Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes
Pitching/Chipping Area Yes
Putting Green Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Amex Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Fivesomes Allowed No
Single Allowed No

Food & Beverage

Bar, Grill

Reviews

3.3
2367 Reviews (2367)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 61
19th Hole Scenic Views 42
Patio Dining 27
Course Challenges Include:
Bunkers 146
Undulating Greens 133
Water Hazards 70
This course/club is great for:
Advanced Golfers 130
Wildlife/ Scenic Views 97
Locals 87
This Course's Location is:
Convenient to the City 103
Worth the Drive 91
Near the Airport 71

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Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
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Previously Played

Nice course

Play was slow (almost 5 hours) but would recommend based on course layout, conditioning and cost.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Windy weather
Used cart

Typical RTJ golf course

Greens were a challenge. Lots of poa in the greens seeding out causing bumpy putting surfaces. Wind adds to the difficulty for sure. The combo green on 9 & 18 could easily be separated to make them more playable when pins are in tough spots. Right side of 18 green when the pin is on the right is not very fair to the golfer.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Handicap 15-19
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Windy weather
Used cart
Value Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Previously Played

Dont

Just don’t play here. Drive another 30 mins to oak valley or tukwet. A little cheaper and much better courses. Layout here is okay but the staff is terrible.

Conditions Average
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 23
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

Great desert setting.

Though we did have a variety of weather that day, we will disregard that for the review. We still love the layout and challenges of the course, and its beautiful setting in the desert and natural scrub bush at the course N of I 10. . Parts of the course are dry, and others were very et due to sporadic sprinklers running and causing ponding. The sand traps are all pretty bad, with water ponded in the bottom of a lot of them (bad watering).. With all the sand available locally, this should be easy to correct! Greens putted pretty good, except the ones with sprinklers running at noon!

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Too many sprinklers on, made it hard to putt on the greens. They need to readjust there watering schedule to late afternoon or evening...

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Course Maintenance Exceptional Poor

Have olayed many Robert Trent Jones Courses. His layouts are always challenging and enjoyable. This course “Desert Dunes” would make him very sad. The greens are covered in poana (weed). The tee boxes and fairways are overtaken with weeds. The bunkers haven’t been worked out n months and some were full with water as sprinkler flooded them. Poorly managed and a waste of time to visit.

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Average
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 10
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Great Layout But Needs Work

Great design but in rough condition. Dirt bunkers not sand bunkers. Mixture of grasses on the fariways and rough.

Maybe try again later in the Spring when the Bermuda grass comes back.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
2.0
First Time Playing

Sixsomes? Really?

Well over 2.5 hrs for the first 9 holes & staff was unable/unwilling to break up the course-clogging offenders. Pea gravel “sand” traps & mowed weed fairways didn’t help the experience. Plenty of other options in the area, so stay away from this one.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 7
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Good course but wind exposed.

This course was a fair value but we happened to play on a windy day and it was brutal. This place is more wind exposed than other courses. It is not far from the wind turbine generators you see when entering Coachella valley from the west. The course was in good condition with the fairways and greens in good shape. But I would avoid on a windy day.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Played On
Reviews 8
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

A typically RT Jones great course

Every time I went to Palm Springs area, I always go to Desert Dunes and play there regardless it was windy, cold or hot weather conditions.
I like the RT Jones design, especially this course was more or less a replica of Scottish Links setting. Playing in the wind requires some advanced skill and experiences of windy low ball knowledge.
My friend complained the wind but I told my friend this is the kind of weather people playing golf in Ireland. I took a picture at the stone bridge at the 9th fairway, when I shown the picture to my golf friends, they all thought I was at St. Andrew’s Old Course.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Wind tunnel

Could be a cool track but the wind is an issue. Read the reviews but decided to go anyway cause Palm Springs courses have gotten so expensive. Won’t be going back. Winds were insane.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 28
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser

Nice track and good value but windy.

First time playing here. Very nice track. Greens were a little slow but true. Went out early in a threesome so played fast in 3.5hrs. Strong winds were a bit of an issue. Would love to play it on a calm day. Good value.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 12
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Very very mediocre

Not worth the money AT ALL.. after being greeted at the pro shop with a great smile and very polite gentleman I wasn’t greeted at all by the “cart guy” which just asked “what do you need” instead of a good morning or hello. When asked what my last name was I told him,, he then said “what!!” With a look of bothersome like I was interrupting his cheerful morning. Honestly one of the rudest , classless person I’ve ever encountered at a course. After playing about 5 holes which were very, very rough as far as maintenance. The wind began to become overwhelming literally knocking your balk down and even backwards most the time. The course has nothing to do or cannot control weather or Mother Nature but what they can control is the quality and overall up-keeping of their course. Just very poor conditions for that price. Very disappointed after paying almost $100 to play at a course in a highly renowned place and so many other courses around.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Poor
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Played On
Reviews 4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
1.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

An adventure in the Wind

It was an adventure to say the last. The wind was so high that maybe the course should have been closed. Except I had paid I would have cancelled.
Course is not in the best of conditions and makes me wonder if they have anyone on the course.

Greens , while fast look like they are desperate need of a greens doctor.

Pace of play was excellent because there was only a few brave souls out there.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 31
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

fun day

nobody playing so looked for balls, found 50 while we played, try to play when wind not a concern
staff ok not over friendly,,course ok condition

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Fair
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate
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