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#56 PGA West Stadium Course
This course is the 4th hardest in the US, 9th in the world. It is host to the tournament formerly known as the Bob Hope Desert Classic. It wasn't until I got close to the clubhouse, and things were looking familiar, that I realized I had played it before. Lee Trevino made a hole-in-one in the Skins Game here in 1987. It's much more Dye-abolical than the La Quinta Mountain course. Railroad ties, bunkers, and mounds abound. Some are the spectator mounds that gave rise to the "stadium" name, but there are plenty inside the ropes as well. In 2015 as a 14 handicap I played from the "combo" tees, and shot 92 with 3 GIR. This year I'm an 11, played the white tees (300 yards shorter), and had 92 with 2 GIR (1 birdie, 26 putts, and 9 shots into or from water hazards). Pictures from this year and 2015 .
Cimarron, a Warrior course
Because of my membership in Condo Travel Club, which comes with my timeshares, I get the Golf Card International for $4 (regularly $59), which gives me some discounts that are OK but hard to use, AND "free golf" at 20 Warrior golf courses around the country. For the one here in Palm Springs, I had to pay a cart fee of $39, instead of the regular greens fee of $49 which includes a cart. Kind of typical of Warrior, in my previous experience with them. 16 of the 20 have no restrictions like that, though. This golf course itself isn't really very hard. Ample fairways, reasonable greens. Plenty of bunkers, some around the greens have very steep faces. I played the "championship" tees, 6328 yards, 69.6 / 117, par 71. It played considerably harder than that, today. It turns out all those wind turbines a few miles away are in the wrong place. They should have been here, where this golf course is. It was a constant 2-3 club win...
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