Mountain Vista Golf Club - Santa Rosa Course

This is a great bang for your buck course. The greens were in great condition, as well as the course as a whole. You’d be hard pressed to find as good of a course as this for the price.

Nice course, I would rate it as a well maintained Muni course. Not overly challenging, but we played in 3.5 hours. The greens were very quick and rolled true. It was a great place to find a swing after a couple of days trying to steer it tighter courses.

Excellent course for the price. It’s wide open and a nice change from the popular desert courses.

One of the best courses i have been to. I golf at least one or two times a week and go to courses all over and this probably takes the number one spot. The grass was very well kept and the scenery was beautiful. My experience was amazing! I would definitely recommend this to anyone coming into Palm Desert and looking for a great course to play

Blows away Indian Springs, harder than Mission Hills Pete Dye. Play it from the Blacks, fun and challenging for a 12 handicap. Shot an 84!

Great course. Great conditions. Greens werent perfect - but almost! Windy at the beginnings ng but calmed down a bit. Guys at the clubhouse wete very froendly

Rode the Blacks (6720/72.1/127) with Susan and Ann in 3H, 45M using Underpar. The weather was in the mid 80's, sunny with a little breeze early morning.

Designed by Billy Casper, four par 5, four par 3 layout, 36-36=72. The front is almost 300 yards shorter with a couple of risk/reward par 4's. The back definitely plays longer with a couple of long par 4's.

The tees were lush and very well maintained.

The fairways were lush and excellent to play from.

All the rough is over seeded and lush/thick. Tough to play longer clubs from. Good length, high enough to be penal, not so high as to slow POP with lost ball challenges every time you enter it.

The sand traps were excellent. Fine quality sand and very nicely maintained.

The Bermuda greens are firm but still putted nice, medium speed. No tiers or huge mounds to navigate, but we rarely had a straight putt.

Enjoyed this course. Mostly generous landing areas, not overtly tight. I thought the difficulty factor was slightly higher than it's sister San Gorgonio course but it would still be a good choice for players of all skill levels. Customer Service excellent, guy beside 18 green cleaning your clubs before you even putt out. Definitely not a course to walk, many holes are a long ways from the last tee. Recommended.

Course was in great shape, no one in front or back of us and the price was too good to tell.

Teed off as a two one about 1015 and had a 4 hour round. Stacked up on a couple par threes but too be expected being the course on a huge retirement community. I played the tips and my wife played the forward tees and we both loved it. Not extremely difficult and the greens are reasonable. I would play again.

Played the Blacks (6720/72.1/127) with GDR23 mid day using Underpar. The weather was in the mid 90's, sunny with a little breeze.

Conventional Par 36-36, four par 5 and four par 3 par 72 layout. The front is almost 300 yards shorter with a couple of risk/reward par 4's. The back seemed longer than the scorecard indicated.

From tee to green, the Santa Rosa layout was maintained a notch above the San Gorgonio course we played in the morning. However, because of a slight vericutt, the San Gorgonio greens were better.

The tees were near immaculate and very well maintained.

The fairways were lush, beautifully striped and were excellent to play from.

All the rough is over seeded and lush/thick. Tough to play longer clubs from. Good length, high enough to be penal, not so high as to slow POP with lost ball challenges every time you enter it.

The sand traps were excellent. Great fine sand quality and very nicely maintained.

The greens had a small vericutt, but still putted nice, medium speed and firm. Seemed like the greens varied in size more on this course. No tiers or huge mounds to navigate, but we rarely had a straight putt.

Enjoyed this course. Tighter than San Gorgonio, but still mostly generous landing areas. I thought the difficulty factor was slightly higher than San Gorgonio, but it would still be a good choice for players of all skill levels. Definitely not a course to walk, many holes are a long ways from the last tee. Recommended.

Outstanding golf course in an area of so much competition. Great to see such high standards maintained when others appear to be offering less and less service. Rate of play was good on a very busy day. Well done to owners and staff.

Very well maintained course within the Sun City Palm Desert Community, too bad the second course couldn't match it! Enjoyed the day and the golf until the winds came up but with the course layout the winds were not so bad ...Jury's still out on the restaurant of Papa Dan's... Had a great lunch a week ago but the dinner we had after the round was not that good! Plenty of staff wandering around the empty restaurant seemed to forget we were there at times!

At least go for the golf!

The course is in the Sun City complex. The course is in great shape greens a bit slow, course is great fo women and men

we had playing this golf course two years ago and yhe golf course is is always beautiful

but a little problem there are no plan or map on the car or on the tee!