Shadow Ridge Golf Club

This is a great course for all levels. Well placed shots are rewarded and missed shots are punishing. The fareways are pristene and the greens challenge every shot. The course begs you to play it twice... a day!

This course is excellent. Although very challenging, it is very enjoyable to play. The course conditions are picture perfect and the layout is worth the play. For Nick Faldo's first design, he did an excellent job. I would play this course again and again.

For an average player, the bunkering and undulating greens make it very difficult to score or feel that you can score well at all. Even moving up to shorter tees puts too much fear into shots with a wedge in your hand. And I never felt confident over any putt. Too many subtle breaks make even fairly short putts tiresome. Vacation golf it's not. More like a guys course on a grind it out golf trip.

Greens were tough, but nice wide landing areas made for a great day of golf. Very good condition, Very forgiving course. Great Day Of Golf

Pace of play was really slow. Waited on every shot.

Definitely a top 2 or 3 course in Palm Desert. Great layout by Faldo. Difficult but playable. Pristine condition. It's a must play.

Shadow Ridge has it all. A well designed and challenging course, excellent practice facilities, and spacious and comfortable clubhouse. The fairways are well bunkered, but there is ample room to put the drive in play. The greens were in excellent shape , but is critical that approach shots are played to the right portion of the green. All around a great day of golf.

The course is very well maintained. The greens are challenging but true. Lots of sandtraps. Not much water. If you go much off the fairway the ball is gone!

I am from Cleveland, Ohio. In Cleveland there are more changes in elevation, there is more water, there are more opportunities to keep the ball in play if in the rough. However,for a Desert Springs Golf experience, this was great!

Good Course - like the tight lies. Quite forgiving but greens are the toughest part of the course.

Great course. I would have given it 5 stars except for the greens. They are very undulating, lightening fast and many of the pin placements were unfair. However it was my first time playing the course and didn't expect those type of greens. I think playing it a few times I'll figure out how to approach the greens better. Lots is sand!!! Doesn't bother me but my wife wasn't very happy. But then again just don't get in it.

Tough greens. Need to be precise with putts or they roll off greens into collection areas!

The last 4 years, Marriott has cut back on the density of their overseed and it shows. Fairways are subjected to heavy cart traffic and lies are pretty tight. Greens are OK . Looks like it needs fertilizer.

This course will likely not help your index, but who cares? Sir Nick has lots of tricks in the greens. Nice design, good condition, great practice facilities. The staff was very helpful and professional. Will be back next time I'm in Coachella area!

With the possible exception of lightning fast greens, this was a great experience. Amazing views, great and interesting course architecture. Never a dull moment with the awesome mountain views. Not your typical desert course.

I have played this course a half dozen times and it has always been enjoyable. Course was in great condition, staff is friendly and it's a great value for the money.

Very nice. Interesting holes and lots of variation.

Considering that the day before it was 10 degrees and snowing where we were, a putt-putt course in this area would get three stars from us. Fabulous weather and a very fair, well maintained golf course was just what we needed. Each hole was interesting and unique. Good shots were rewarded and wayward shots brought more challenge. To top it off the scenery was outstanding. We would love to play it again!

The course lay out is so great designed , most of green is hard to get in two on par 4, cause there a lot of bunker around and the bound of it hiding where should we put the ball on green, water trap not too much but just the 18th be carefully .

Although this is a great course for challenging round, the experience will eventually go away when all the residential units are built. The front nine was the best experience.
The starter was spot on when he said our round was on the edge of being dark when we finished based on the pace of play. The group ahead of use finally slowed down and was not monitored, thus we ended in the dark. Based on our front nine pace of play of 2 hours, we could have finihed with a 4 hour round, but we were slowed to a 4 3/4 hours round.

Took my 11 yr old autistic son out with me for his first round of golf ever. They gave him free rentals clubs and he loved it. We paid $20 each thanks to golfnow.com . loved the course. Can't wait to get back out there. The Marriot resort was pretty awesome..