Westin Rancho Mirage Golf Resort & Spa - Pete Dye Resort Course

Only complaint is the greens need better care Too many imperfections and ball marks.

This course was both beautiful and challenging. Like all Pete Dye courses, beginner and intermediate golfers will probably find this course to be a little unforgiving with it’s narrow fairways and perfectly placed sand traps and water hazards. But, these obstructions also help make this course absolutely beautiful to behold. I would definitely recommend this course to others AND look forward to playing it again soon.

Subpar conditions for a “resort” course. Greens were slow and didn’t run true. The lake in the green right side bunker on hole 7th should have addressed before started for the day. Fairways were ok but not to the standard a number of courses we’ve played before this one. No rangers in sight throughout our round which we needed as the group behind us kept hitting into us (their ball flew past our position on 2 occasions). I had to confront them after the 2nd time which the course should have been handling. The final pain of playing this course yesterday is the the round took slightly more than 5 hours to complete.

We would not recommend playing this course.

We had a great time playing this Pete Dye course. It's a typical Dye course. We had great rounds and had a wonderful time playing with two members who gave us tips along the way. We were not impressed by the snack shop. When we stopped for a drink after our round, we were told that all tables were reserved for members, eventhough none of the tables were occupied at 2 pm. We were only allowed to sit on 2 couches facing 3 tvs. We'll definitely play the course again, but will go elsewhere for drinks. Everyone else at the course was great. Very friendly and helpful.

I have played the course before and it was in much better shape this time. My only issue was pace of play. I got worried we would not finish before dark. It took over 4.5 hours. I played the forward tees.

The course offers a few tee box options for any caliber of golfer. The tee boxes were nice, the fairways are getting nice and full of grass, the greens putted true and smooth. I recommend playing this course when in the Palm Desert area.

Layout is amazing. Staff awesome. Greens were brutal and grass was suspect. Greens inconsistent with a bump every 8 inches.

Love the layout but the pace of play was terrible. No water out on the golf course and the cart person was no where to be found.

Westin, if you are going to put your name on this course, it should be first-class as you market yourself. But no first-class course has DIRT bunkers. And it is obvious that you filled in many of Pete Dye's bunkers that are now grass bunkers. It's a good thing he can't back and see the mess you've made all to save money.

Play was slower than usual. I played 4 rounds in January 2025. The course was in excellent conditions except the greens. The suggest the starters remind golfers to repair pitch marks. The practice putting green was cut but the course greens were a bit shaggy. The course attendants, including shuttle service from the parking lot, was very good.

Just spent 3 weeks in the Valley, course was the worst by far for a Hotel/Golf Resort, you should be ashamed to charge relative to others in the Valley and offer this course to quests. You have gone thru new ownership about 3 years ago and still are below par. But are preceding to give the place a new paint job, awesome. Yes I did notice the place was dead. You should go next door to the course you divorced a couple years ago, was one of the nicest courses I played.

Fertility of grass was very poor on greens, bare spots, and dead ball mark holes littered the greens.

Marshall’s did not manage course whatsoever. foursome in front of me them they sent me out as a single, a single behind with wife and baby crawling on course, single behind them, and a random walker playing the front nine in between all groups. Made the turn and a twosome and single jumped ahead of the foursome ahead of us. Went to clubhouse to address issues and it was closed. There was no staff around to help or remedy a situation.

Westin is supposed to be a prestigious company but the staff there is doing whatever they want and have zero thought or care for the customers paying 99$ green fees.

This was very unprofessional and there was no communication to be had with staff.

I understand this. All courses around are in the grow in period while switching to cool season grasses I give lots of grace and respect towards the greenskeeping staff. This fault lies with clubhouse staff management and their non communication and management practices.

The staff was beyond unfriendly and the starter was just down right rude, to everyone! The course was brown, their was actually trash everywhere, the pace of play was AWFUL... don't waste your money, so many better courses in the desert to play.

5 minutes before my tee time I was informed there would be a 45-60 minute delay teeing off. Apparently the staff had forgotten to send groups out off the first tee for over 30 minutes. After quite a delay, we were told to start off the 6th tee (which was not really an issue). However, once we reached the 1st hole again around 2pm-ish, it was unfair for all golfers involved because multiple groups were teeing off on 1 trying to finish their round in addition to those just starting their round.

Management was not very accommodating for anyone during the day and did not provide any assistance or clarification as to their issues in the morning.

Overall enjoyable course but the greens need work, very slow and didn’t seem as well maintained as the rest of the course.