Lives
Palm Desert, CA
Handicap
10-14
Age
65+
Gender
Male
Skill
Intermediate
Plays
Once a week

Review Statistics

Average Rating

3.7
3.7
Total 95 Reviews

Rating Breakdown

95 Reviews
5 Stars
16
4 Stars
49
3 Stars
22
2 Stars
5
1 Stars
3
Recommended Courses
80
Not Recommended Courses
15
Helpful Votes Count
2
Not Helpful Votes Count
0
First Review
04/10/2015
Last Review
04/25/2024

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Shadow Mountain Golf Club

Played On 12/14/2019
I Recommend This Course
Incentivized Review
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Fun shorter course

This old course takes you back to the good old days when courses were shorter, greens were smaller, and not a lot of trouble. Fun to play. The ladies tees don't have much of an advantage, however, so they play long for most women.
Greens can be tricky, got to stay below the hole, especially on those that are up against the south mountain. They can be lightning fast.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Moderate
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Commented on 12/16/2019

Hi physgolf. We appreciate you taking the time to review the course and rate us. Thank you for the 4 stars! We aim for a 5-star experience, so we always welcome feedback for improvement. Thank you for playing Shadow Mountain Golf Club.

Heritage Palms Golf Club

Played On 12/05/2019
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

FUN COURSE

Wide fairways, excellent greens and tee boxes, several tee box lengths to choose from so user friendly for everyone.
Sand was perfect, fairway lies perfect, rough just right length.
Highly recommend, we will play there again.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Difficulty Moderate

Hemet Golf Club

Played On 11/06/2019
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

ON THE DOWNHILL

This course has a pretty good layout, tee boxes are OK, Greens are very good.
The rest just sucks. Fairways are either dry or soggy, not consistent on the mowing, weeds everywhere. And the rough is more like a natural landscape in the desert. Sand traps as just dirt.
Course is losing money obviously and maintenance is at an all time low.
Getting ready to close the doors is my prediction.
The price through golf now is great, but still not worth it in my opinion.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate

Oasis Country Club

Played On 11/02/2019
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

SEASON OPENER

I great shape for just opening for the season. Very busy, all the homeowners are back.
Enjoyable executive course with a couple of challenging par 3's and lots of water to be found. Take an extra sleeve of balls if you aren't a consistent straight hitter.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Good
Difficulty Fairly Easy
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

BIKINI WAXED GREENS

Fast, true, hard to read and putt, these greens are the biggest challenge for the course. Many are elevated and heavily guarded with traps, several can't be seen from the fairway unless you hit it 300 yards past the dogleg.
HEY course operators, how about a ball washer or two on the course. NONE to be seen and not one on the cart either.
Fairway traps are dirt and rocks, greenside not much better. New sand in traps, ball washers, and this course would be top rated.
Starter was very fun and informative.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Wide Open Fairways, challenging greens

Course still recovering from the summer so some bare spots in fairways and around the greens. New, white, soft sand in the traps, beautiful to look at, need a shovel to get out of.
Greens were hard and running fast, but putting true.
Overall a good value and a decent design.
Biggest complaint is there is no clubhouse or facility at the turn.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate

South at Admiral Baker Golf Course

Played On 09/24/2019
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
First Time Playing

Fairway? We don't need no stinking fairways .

Bulldozed, leveled and reseed on the south course and it would be a decent track. Greens were so so, recently punched and fertilized, running slow. Tee boxes a little torn up in places. Cart ran out of juice on 11, shop sent replacement out. Nice, new carts with GPS. I'd play it again in the spring, see if grass grows over the winter.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent

Woodhaven Country Club

Played On 05/12/2019
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Short and Sweet

Course is in the best condition I've seen it in years. Played as a twosome in 3.5 hours.
Greens are good speed, but don't hold real well, typical in the desert. Traps are crusty, more of a chip shot than blast to get out.
Play it now, before it browns out during the summer.

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Fairly Easy
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Greased Lightning

The greens were exceptionally fast. Hard to keep approach shots on the green and putts sort of the hole. Everything ran way past. Leave your head cover on the putter.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

Date Palm Country Club

Played On 03/09/2019
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Fun Short Course

Some longer par 3's, but all short par 4's. A good course to work on your short game. Sand was very good. Greens are smooth, a little slow today, but overall in good condition.

Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Fairly Easy

Oasis Country Club

Played On 12/24/2019
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played

Great condition

Nice executive course with variety of holes, distances, and LOTS of water. Have fun

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent

Hemet Golf Club

Played On 10/23/2019
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played

Great greens

Some of the smoothest greens around, and big. Rest of course needs some tlc, especially fairways and tee boxes. Sand traps are hard.
Challenging layout, tho, so is fun to play.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Windy weather
Used cart

Wide Open but Greens will Challenge

Fairways as wide as the 405 freeway, you feel embarrassed if you miss one. The real challenge is fairway bunkers, green-side bunkers and the greens themselves. Smooth and FAST, with so many subtle breaks and influences by the hillsides and gullies, they are difficult to read and putt. You can hit a downhill 15 footer 10 feet past if you aren't careful. Walk around the hole every time...or get surprised!
Will definitely be back.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

PAR 3 COURSE YOU HAVE TO PLAY

Looking for a challenging short course. Well hitch up your pants and give this one a try. From the blue tees, this is no push over par 3 course. Back 9 gets long, with couple of holes over 200 yards. There is more than enough water and sand traps for everyone in your group to hit into. Bring a couple of sleeves of balls if you are less than an intermediate golfer. You will need them!
Only reason not a 5 on course conditions as greens were recently sanded. By the way, they are huge and if you don't get on the right side or level, 3 putts come a running.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

Hemet Golf Club

Played On 10/21/2018
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Top 500 Contributor
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Used cart

Tarnished Jewel of a Course

A great Curly/Schmitt design that has been allowed to deteriorate in maintenance and upkeep. It's sad.
The greens are great for the most part, large and smooth and fairly fast. Tee box to green however reflect neglect, lack of money, or just poor management.
Fairway cuts are erratic, rough is mix of whatever, no sand in the sand traps(just hard dirt). This could be an excellent track with the proper care.
Winding among the houses lining the fairway(they don't intrude and are hardly noticeable) landing areas are usually defined by large fairway traps, as are the greens. A few lakes also contribute to the overall visual(although one of them was practically dry).
Told by one employee that the water bill was $40K a month, in my opinion that could be cut by 25% or more just by doing some simple landscape changes(more desert scape, less grass around tee boxes and between tees and fairways, along the fairways. Spend a 100K to save 10K a month forever.

Conditions Fair
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Average
Pace Good
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging

Date Palm Country Club

Played On 09/30/2018
I Recommend This Course
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

Closing up

9 holes closed, which was not indicated in the registration process. Closing course completely on Oct 1.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Excellent
Amenities Fair
Difficulty Fairly Easy
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

West to North

Greens were in excellent condition, held and putted true.
Don't be fooled into thinking you can hit it up on the hills on the right and it will come down to the fairway. It won't, but you may find several balls while looking for yours. Just won't find yours.
White tees are fairly short, especially the par 3's and some 4's.
I'll play it again.

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Moderate

Date Palm Country Club

Played On 09/14/2018
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Hot weather
Used cart

closed hole

One hole was closed while repairs being done to lake, no information to that effect when we booked.

Conditions Average
Value Excellent
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Fairly Easy

Date Palm Country Club

Played On 04/14/2018
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart
Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Average
Difficulty Moderate

Indio Golf Club

Played On 03/11/2018
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Top 500 Contributor
Previously Played
Perfect weather
Used cart

Bump and grind

Be advised this is a poorly kept muni, with lots of total beginners on the course. Greens in poor condition, tee boxes even worse.
If all you want to do is practice your irons, this is ok, Don't worry about putting and chipping, because you won't really know how you are doing.
No sand traps, and water really not in play. Hard to get perspective of the greens with little backdrop and no indicators.
I won't be back.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Fair
Friendliness Fair
Pace Fair
Amenities Poor
Difficulty Fairly Easy
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