The Quarry at La Quinta

La Quinta, CA Private

Overview

The developers of The Quarry hired Tom Fazio in the early 1990s with instructions that he top his design of Shadow Creek (ranked No. 27 on this year’s list). Fazio was savvy enough to ignore those instructions, because he recognized The Quarry site was a much better piece of topography than what he’d been provided in Las Vegas. Thus The Quarry has more variety, starting and ending in a gravel quarry now lavishly landscaped. In between, holes play on high desert overlooking the Palm Springs Valley and in a valley, with four holes tucked in an isolated notch of the Santa Rosa Mountains. The course regularly receives some of the highest Conditioning scores in the ranking.

About

Holes 18
Length 7083
Slope 133
Facility Type Private
Designer Thomas Fazio, ASGCA

Awards

100 Greatest
Best Courses in Every State

Ranking history:

100 Greatest: Ranked since 1999.
2023-'24 ranking: 91st.
Previous ranking: 85th,
Highest ranking: No. 44, 2009-'10.

Best in State: Ranked ninth, 2011-'12, 2015-'16, 2019-'20. Ranked 10th, 2017-'18. Ranked inside the top 10, 1999-2010. Ranked 11th, 2013-'14, 2021-'22. Ranked inside the top 15, 1995-'97.
2023-'24 ranking: 12th.
Previous ranking: 11th.

Panelists

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

4.7

100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

Shot Options
7.4682
Character
7.6577
Challenge
7.3099
Layout Variety
7.5061
Fun
7.6347
Aesthetics
7.8529
Conditioning
8.2108

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