Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort, Resort Course
Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort -Resort, is a Resort, 18 hole golf course located in Palm Springs, California.
Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort consists of two championship 18-hole golf courses. Both offer great views of Palm Springs and challenging golf.
Golf Digest has in the past rated Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort as "one of the best places to play"!!
The Legend Course is a traditional layout. It features 6,600 yards of tree lined fairways and over 40 bunkers. The greens on the Legend are severely sloped from back to front.
The Resort golf course first opened in 1995. The course was designed by Ted Robinson.
The Resort Course, is a desert links style course with rolling terrain, well placed bunkers, waterscapes, and mountain views!
The Resort course at the Tahquitz Creek Golf Resort plays to 6,705 yards from the back tees. The course rating is 71.8 and slope rating of 125. The Resort Course at Tahquitz plays to a par of 72.
This course has been reviewed 8 time
Beautiful day with great mid-November weather. I got to the course about 8:25am and was playing (as a single) by 8:35am with 3 other gentlemen.
I had not played the Resort course on my previous trip to Palm Springs, but I now highly recommend it over the older Legends course, which is fine, but the Legends winds thru neighborhoods, and is an older style track.
On the Resort course, the conditioning was generally very good,lush green and very attractive. Some of the rough on the first few holes had not been mowed that morning, and anything off the fairway meant chopping out of 3-4 inch rye, which made it pretty difficult to get any distance or accuracy.
The layout was attractive, with a mix of native trees and palms, with some flowering shrubs and flower beds to provide some nice color. There are very few houses on the course, which is good, since I think they distract from the overall ambiance of your round. This course is a modern design, but still traditional, in that there are few desert waste areas. It provides a moderate challenge thru mounding and layout, but shouldnt be too much trouble for the average golfer.
The price was fair for this area, and I highly recommend it as a part of your Palm Springs visit. I know that some critics count off since it doesnt have a fancy clubhouse, but since I am not going to a golf course for the clubhouse, that is not important to me.
BTW, the round of golf at the time of my visit included food (breakfast and lunch) at the clubhouse (a buffet?). I really wish that courses would not force this on golfers, as I did not have time to take advantage of it, (nor did I want it), and they could have likely knocked off at least $10-15 of the green fee, which I would have prefered. Also, it does not include anything from the mobile snack cart on the course, which I would have used.
I had played Indian Canyons South Course only 2 days before, and the Tahquitz course did not quite have the same "wow" factor, but it was still much, much better than my North Texas home courses in November.