Played on Christmas morning. Beautiful course with lots of bunkering around greens. Sir Faldo has done nice job on the design and layout of the course. There are really long par 4's. Unless you ca... Continue »

Played on Christmas morning. Beautiful course with lots of bunkering around greens. Sir Faldo has done nice job on the design and layout of the course. There are really long par 4's. Unless you can hit 300 yard drives, i would suggest playing shorter tees. As far as conditions, fairways, roughs, and tee boxes were excellent. However, I was little disappointed about the greens. Maybe they were trying to make the greens fast, but the greens seemed very thin (in terms of density). It looked like strands of grass were just planted on bare soil.

I was also disappointed with customer service. Our threesome was originally booked with a single. They made one of us ride with the single. I would understand my cheap local muni course forcing the fourth guy riding together. But on a resort course with high fee? Come on! Then, one of my playing partner forgot to keep the credit card receipt to show to the starter, and the starter gave him a crap about it. I thought the starter looked as if he would cuss at and kick my friend out. We were on a resort course on Christmas day. My friend found the receipt in his bag later (luckly), but please, I expected top notch customer service from a resort course and it didn't even come close.

It's a nice layout course. If you're staying at the resort (which we did), it's nice to play golf right outside the balcony of where you are staying. But I think I'll venture out to different courses next time I'm in Palm Springs/Desert area.