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the premier facility in the coachella valley. this course and the celebrity course are must plays if you have the opportunity. forget the hype of pga west.
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i live here and have played nearly all of the courses in the coachella valley. this course and the players course are the premier public courses in the area. pga west is overrated. this course and the players course are simply fantastic. the classic club rivals these two but make sure to play it when it's not windy.

beautiful, fun, fair yet challenging course. amazing how they completely revamped this place yet left all of the existing mature trees. feels like a new course with mature trees and quite exquisite landscape pallette.

play both of this courses and don't even think twice about the pga west hype.
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i might be a little biased due to the fact that i generally don't care much for nicklaus designed courses...the conditions were pretty darn good though. layout wise this course is way too easy. fairways are massive. go to this course with 2 golf balls and i guarantee you wont run out. i will say i was challenged on the par 3's though. 3 or 4 of them over 200 yards. aesthetically kind of average....didn't have high end feel.

bottom line this is a fun track, but i think there are better opportunities out there for tourists.
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i was pleasantly surprised by this course. i personally like it the best of the pga west courses and better than la quinta mountain course. normans got a beautiful design style and look and feel of this course is quite unique. just play if for the variety from other courses. the island tees and fairways contrast beautifully with the desert landscaping.

i also enjoyed the country club feel the course has....but at the same time the design is so good that you really don't notice any houses lining the fairways. feels more like a private course than any other in the valley.

i found this course to be very difficult. some of the fairways are extremely narrow. completely fair though with the exeption of about 2 holes.

only negatives--the course has some long grass areas that are left alone and are supposed to have a native feel. i understand the design aspect of them and they would be neat but they are so poorly maintained that they are an eyesore to the crisp beauty of the design. they don't look the way norman intended. there are also about 3 or 4 holes on the front 9 that are poorly designed (playability wise)/ugly aesthetics.

other than that this is a fantastic course that is underrated.
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best summer conditions you will find in the desert hands down. one thing you guys need to remember about golf in the coachella valley is that summer is a down time and you really shouldn't judge a course based on its conditions in the summer. summer is a time to aerify and do whatever necessary projects need to be done to get the course in prime shape for the winter.

shadow ridge is one of the top 5 public courses in the valley. fun and enjoyable round.
great conditions and fantastic customer service. you hardly ever see another hole than the one you are playing which gives a "private atmosphere" feeling.

the only negatives: the fairways are a little too wide (i'm not very accurate off of the tee and I didnt lose a ball all day), while the green surrounds too trecherous....bunkers and collection areas. multiple long par 4's 430-490 yards that dont allow you to run the ball up on to the green because of bunkers in front of the green? come on....i can remember 3 or 4 holes, particularily 6 and 18 that are just poorly designed.

tee boxes are a real dissapointment for a course at this level. the superintendent has his tee service guy put the tee markers in the front if the pin position is in the back, tees in the middle with pin in middle, and tees in the back with pin in the front. ok, now thats a detail that's not very important but go ahead and do that if you want but don't put the markers in the exact 3 same places. there are 3 distinguished humps on every that were caused from overfilling divots. no level lies. (if you have ever played at cimmaron it's even worse and quite comical that no one has ever brought it up with the superintendent).

don't get the wrong idea about anything i said about the course. i highly recommend the course and consider it one of the top 5 public courses in the valley.
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kind of surprizing that gk used to rate this course as best value in the san bernadino area. greens were fantastic....just a tad slow. the customer service was great. other than that i don't have anything good to say about this course. boring layout. subpar conditioning. just your below average po-dunk golf course. better opportunities out there......
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wow, what a pleasant surprise!!!! played on 07/05/10. the greens were slow, but the conditioning for this time of the year was second to none. the golf course was much, much better than i had expected. i've played more than half of the golf courses in the coachella valley and this course is the best public course just behind the classic club and both of the indian wells resort courses. the city of palm desert knows what they are doing....fantastic facility!
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the good--usually not a very busy course which allows for faster rounds. good conditioning. the bunkers play fantastic. aestetically appealing layout.

the bad--i'm not a huge fan of the layout. you end up with a lot of semi-blind approach shots. it's got some fantastic holes and others that are akward and not much fun to play. empty lot pads surrounding holes 11-->17.

I'm a tough critic, but this course leaves something to be desired. it's hard to put a finger on it, but it just wasn't an enjoyable round for me.
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this was kind of a depressing round. i used to play this golf course all the time, but this was my first in about 3 years. geez....they have really let this place go. this was once a high end public course. it's pretty low end now. extremely poor conditioning. the fairways (especially 1, 8, and 9) were so wet and muddy that they were unplayable. the superintendent is overwatering. felt like i was playing in a swamp. greens were slow and wet. no attention to detail displayed what so ever...this courses conditioning rivals that of indio municipal. it really is a fun track though. i would recommend playing it if you can find a great deal. dissapointingly, this track is nothing like it used to be.
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