The Palms Golf Club

La Quinta, CA • Private

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Al Geiberger Jr.

Overview

Built on an old palm tree farm, The Palms Golf Club stays true to its roots with some towering trees framing nearly every hole—which along with the mountains in the distance—make for great backdrops. The Brian Curley/Fred Couples design is playable off the tee but features some smaller, undulating putting surfaces that can give players fits. There is a good variety of holes—with long and short par 3s and a shorter, reachable par 5 coupled with a 600-yard-plus three-shotter.

About

Holes 18

Length 7039

Slope 137

Facility Type Private

Designer Brian Curley, ASGCA/Fred Couples

Awards

Ranking history:

Panelists

Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

3.6

100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

Shot Options

7.0183

Character

6.9718

Challenge

7.1507

Layout Variety

6.769

Fun

7.0135

Aesthetics

6.8292

Conditioning

7.2695

Reviews

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Review

“Varied green designs and challenging greens to read for putts. Bent grass greens in the desert! Variation of hole design and routing is excellent. Challenging and fun course to play for all skill levels."

2024

2 / 3

Review

“Date palm tree lines holes are very nice. Very difficult greens to hit ... many have lots of run off areas but they are beautifully conditioned."

2023

3 / 3

Review

“Definitely not your typical desert course. The greens can be insanely fast at times, and with the slopes of the greens, you can easily have some putting nightmares on this course. Course is pretty wide open. This course is known to have one of the lowest handicap averages in the nation. Many professional and high level golfers have been and are members here."

2018