Palm Springs Golf Packages

With nearly 1,000 exquisite golf courses across the state, it's extremely difficult to choose just five, but according to most golfers, the following are the most popular in California and offer the most exciting and enticing playing experiences:

• Cypress Point Club: Designed by Alister MacKenzie, this golf course is very challenging. Unless you're in the know, only a lucky few will get the chance to tee it up on the first. The golf course is set at the foothills of the Santa Lucia Mountains on the tip of the Monterey Peninsula, and the cliff top terrain is thrilling. The Pacific is the ultimate water hazard on the 16th one-shot hole. Cypress Point Club is located in Pebble Beach, California. Finally, playing just 135 yards, the stunning 15th hole is surrounded by bunkers, ocean rocks, and cypress trees, offering the best chance for birdie.
• Riviera: The 18-hole layout at Riviera Country Club is undoubtedly a very impressive course, not only because of its magnificent appeal to many famous members, including Glen Campbell, Dean Martin, and Gregory Peck but also because this is a masterpiece in architectural design. The Riviera was designed by George C. Thomas Jr., and the golf course opened in 1926. Riviera is one of the most internationally revered golf courses. The 6th hole is one of the most famous golf holes worldwide due to a single feature – a bunker square in the middle of the green.
• Pebble Beach Golf Links: This golf course is a solid challenge – particularly for your irons – that will create a lifetime of memories. It's routinely rated the number one public course in the country and has hosted numerous prestigious championships. This is a course that every golfer wants to check off their bucket list. Pictures fail to convey the beautiful rhythm of a golf round at Pebble Beach. The first three holes are inland and build your anticipation. After your drive on four, you dive headlong into coastal views for the next five holes. If you decide to play the Pebble Beach Golf Links, your primary objective off the tee should be staying out of the hazards.
• The PGA WEST Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course: With a dramatic setting enhanced by distant mountains, this superb golf course provides a fun round that is significantly less penal than the adjacent PGA WEST Pete Dye Stadium Course. Even though mounding mimicking the surrounding mountains serves both a strategic and aesthetic purpose, the main design feature of this course is its elevated, plateau-like fairways. These swathes of green turf sit above patches of rough, deep waste bunkers, and desert scrub that loom wide of the tabletop landing areas. The fairways constrict precipitously en route to the greens. Although the greens themselves are a good size, they may appear to be small targets due to all the surrounding trouble.
• The Gary Player Signature Course: This has been one of the finest golf courses in Palm Springs ever since it opened in the 1990s. Wide fairways with slopes and mounding at the landing's boundaries help keep errant shots in play. If your ball drifts beyond the short grass, you will most likely be left with a sidehill lie and stance in noticeable rough. Lagoons and lakes run the length of several holes, and these hazards sometimes require forced carries. The greens on the Gary Player Signature Course are usually at the same level as the fairway. Many are small with intriguing shapes. Plenty of challenges await skilled players.

California is home to 921 golf courses, each with unique features, layouts, and designs. Perhaps the most famous golf course in the state is the Stadium Course at PGA West, which can be found at La Quinta Resort & Club. Pete Dye was given simple instructions when put in charge of building the Stadium Course at PGA West – "Build the hardest damn golf course in the world!" And he did. The golf course is renowned for its dramatic features, including steep slopes and penal hazards. Water comes into play on nearly half the holes, and there's more square footage of sand than putting surface.

The Stadium Course at PGA West was rated one of the "Top 100 Courses to play" by GOLF Magazine and the fourth toughest course in America in Golf Digest's "Top 50 Toughest Courses in America". It delivers multiple adrenaline rushes throughout the round, no matter how experienced the golfer is. Despite being one of the most challenging courses to play in the world, golf aficionados should add it to their bucket list, as they will be in for a memorable experience. The golf course was inspired by the Scottish links-style courses.