PGA WEST Pete Dye Dunes Course

Range closed. Cart path only. Slow bumpy greens. Mounded tee boxes. Overall, it was just a so/so course.

The course was cart path only so pace of play was supposed to be 4.5 hours. The pace of play was 5.5 hours. Not a single course Marshall around the whole game. Not good. A beautiful course to play but no one wants to play golf for 5.5 hours.

Usually enjoy the Dunes course but since the overseed just took place a short time ago the greens were running very slowly and it was cart path only. The fairways were just ok. My recommendation would be to wait until at least Thanksgiving time to play there. As well, range and short game area still not open yet.

Superb looking and playing conditions . Greens understandably slow but rilled well. Surprisingly good pace with cart path only on almost every hole.

We were very excited to play this Pete Dye designed course. In fact it was our splurge for this trip.

When we arrived we were told a typical round would take 4.5 hours. Seems normal for public course play we thought. The trouble started when the course ranger suggested we pick up our pace. The reason given was there were members playing behind us and they expected a 3.5 hour round. The ranger came by 2 more times to tell us to hurry up. Maybe the ranger should have talked to the two guys we were playing with who never knew where there balls were.

The course has work being done to it with the bunkers. Holes 1-5, and a handful of other holes throughout the course. Greens are pretty dry but tolled true about an 8.5. Cart girl passed us immediately on hole #1 green lol, that was the last time she’d be seen. Kinda ridiculous especially on a weekend.

Great track for $80 bucks hot deal but if I were to pay the $150 weekend rate during this hot summer I’d be bummed. Play the mountain course instead.

Loved the course. Greens were great and views were immaculate. For being the summer the course was in good shape! Would recommend

Great course. It was hot when we played . We were done 30 minutes ahead of time .

Terry

Probably discounted as it was the last day before aeration.

Conditions were good, greens were true. Rolling at about 9 to 9.5 I’d guess. No sand in the bunkers so need to dig deep greenside. Over well worth the $100 for a 6:45am time.

Play here frequently, greens are firm but true, great value under 75 bucks this time of year.

we last played the course right after they redid the greens and it was very difficult.

Now 2 years later the greens have evened out and are very nice

There is a moment just before your first tee shot at the Pete Dye Dunes Course at PGA West when the Coachella Valley seems to hold its breath. The Santa Rosa Mountains rise behind you like ancient sentinels wrapped in violet and ochre, their jagged silhouette painted against a California sky so achingly blue it almost seems invented. The air is warm and still. The fescue-covered mounds cascade softly away from you in every direction, rolling and folding like the edges of some sleeping giant’s quilt. And somewhere in that stillness, you can almost hear Pete Dye laughing quietly, cleverly, from somewhere just beyond your line of sight.

The Dunes Course is Dye doing something unusual for Dye, being generous. But do not mistake generosity for mercy. This is a man who built the Stadium Course just next door, a course that once reduced Tour professionals to muttered obscenities. Here, on the Dunes, he exhales. He slows down. He paints with a broader brush. And yet his fingerprints, those masterful, mischievous fingerprints are pressed into every mound, every bunker edge, every false front and tilting green.

To play the Pete Dye Dunes Course is to participate in a conversation with one of the game’s great minds a man who believed the golf course was not merely a venue but a narrative.

And so, I write it as such.

Had a blast, beers with the boys and slammed some birdies.

Somebody needs to be out there monitoring pace of play. The group in front of us was two couples, both of them were teaching their significant other lady friends how to golf… like literally taking three or four balls off the tee, physically assisting with swing practice on the tee box, and generally showing the worst etiquette on any golf courses I’ve ever seen. And this was as the sun was setting, and people were trying to finish their rounds. These people had no etiquette, would not let us play through, and generally should not have been at a golf course anyway. Take your new golfers to the driving range until they’re capable of hitting a golf ball. Sure would’ve been nice to see a ranger or a staff member to inform them of taking over an hour to play three holes.

When u first set on the course, u get a beautiful view of some of the holes and driving range was a bit short which was about 265 to the end. Friendly club house staff, starter and everyone i ran into. Also nice big club house with a couple simulator bays. Course was nice besides the sand on the greens. I booked through golfnow and got a good deal for the course and I'd say it's worth playing one one each course.

The course is in good condition and the staff is friendly and helpful. We finished our round in 3 hours 20 minutes. I look forward to playing this course again.