Indian Wells Golf Resort

made an impromptu to the area and got an early tee 8:10 time. Complimentary valet parking, fantastic pro shop, and friendly staff. The range is state of the art, even though the yardage was a bit off. The course was in great shape. The greens were fast, but fair. The ball rolled great, but held nicely as well. I would place this course is right up there with the best of them, including Pebble Beach, Bandon Dunes, Spanish Bay...ect

The course was well maintained, staff was outstanding, however the fairways were very tight to one another, which made hitting the greens in regulation difficult if your tee shot was not in the middle of the fairway.

Driving range limited to 150 yard
No food at the turn
Had to share a cart with someone outside of my group.

All of these are “normal” for a golf course - but hard to swallow after paying $260+ for a tee time.

Really nice place the players course it was incredible greens. Everything went really fast. Only took a little over four hours. Really nice people and lots of nice buildings.

Due to sadistic pin placements, lightening fast greens and very undulating greens, be ready to shoot 8 shots higher than your average.
Beautiful course and hole designs (too much sand tho), but
I’d suggest this to their grounds staff:
Greens are way too fast for the contours, and don’t have so many extreme pins, right near front or near the back.
Makes it impossible for amateurs with hdcps higher than 4 or 5.
I’m a 6 and it crushed me.
Given all that, it wasn’t even CLOSE to being worth the $.

Only the tees, fairways and greens are overseeded. Usually this is Ok but the brown areas are very bare overall. Playing for the first time you really don't know where to miss and if you hit it towards the "wash" side of the course you will get some really bad bounces down the hills. Greens were hard but lightning fast. Difficult to hold a green with anything longer than a 9 iron and lots of spin. I expected more for one of the higher priced courses.

Overall great experience. However for the price I found classic club less expensive and in better condition. The simulators in each bay in the range was really cool. There was debris and trash just off of most fairways. One staff member also tainted the beginning of round with some negativity ie not very friendly. Other staff members were excellent!

From the staff to the course, it’s all 5 stars. Course condition is perfect. Greens run true and fastish. Fairways are 5 out of 5. Some bunkers could use some sand. But I suspect that could be from the recent torrential rainstorm, they saw before Christmas. If you can afford it, this place is well worth the money to play