Valley at Marriott's Desert Springs Resort

Disappointing experience which started with a frost delay, no carts for too long, greens shaggy & not in good condition, slow pace of play resulting in us not finishing. Waste of an expensive round.

3 thumbs down

Getting started was tough as carts were not available for 15 minutes which cut into warm up time. Grabbed a lousy but expensive sandwich and started on #10. The course was in average shape but traps were mostly pretty hard and needed more sand. The course is interesting with lots of beautiful holes.

We had not played here in years and now we know why. The course design is strange with humps and bumps in the fairways that take away from the golf experience. The fairways were marginal at best with sparse grass conditions. Greens were hard and slow. Bunkers were the worst in the Palm Desert area that we have played. They are so compacted and need sand in all of them. Disgusted that they ask for $123 to play and the conditions are so poor.

Will never play this course again!

Enjoyed the Valley course as I usually do, it's more of a default course to play when I need to get out and get some course time. The tees and fairways were in very good condition. The greens were slow and not true...I had to make myself to force my putts to get to the hole. The staff was accommodating and the pace of play was just at four hours for a 11:15 start. I enjoy the Palm course too for the same reasons.

I have played here many years at this time of year . Cost to play went up and the front 9 conditions were the worst I have seen. Back 9 was much better and up to normal standards. Snack shop on Vally was closed so no food and no starter there. Makes no sense to have it closed. Cart girl quit at 3 pm or so.

Course was good. But I came here to review their staff/attitude. It was terrible. The guy in the proshop was ok at best. The starter was miserable. And the club

cleaning guy had about as bad an attitude as I have experienced.

Ive played hundreds of golf courses. The attitude here was at the bottom 5%

Course was in great shape. Excellent views and couple of holes have been my favourite so far during our trip.

Great staff

Pretty course with entertaining holes

A good blend of difficulty

Fairways were in good winter condition

Greens are challenging but a little slow

Bunkers need work. Almost no sand

Also difficult to enter and exit for older players

Pretty good shape other than tee areas and landing areas. Lots of un repaired divots