Indian Palms Golf & Country Club - Mountain/Royal

My wife and I are in Palm Springs for our honeymoon. We are avid golfers, but elected to not bring our clubs down with us (from our home in Winnipeg, CAD) as we wanted to mostly focus on good restaurants and relaxation. We had one day open and decided to golf . We were debating between a few courses, but then saw a great “hot” deal on GolfNow for Indian Palms CC . This coincidentally is a course that my wife’s grandparents knew very well a couple decades back as they had a home in the area. The family said nothing but good things , but with a caveat, “if they still maintained it , it is narrow, but you will enjoy it”. Well to our shock and disappointment this course looked like it had not been maintained at all since the 20 years before that my in-laws played it . The club house was dingy and poorly staffed. The breakfast sandwich was awful and they used Kraft singles as the cheese. The hash browns were OK but were cold. We had to approach the bar after waiting 15mins to be acknowledged. The setup for the poor bartender is awfully inefficient so I can’t overly blame her for that, plus they had her pulling double duty as also the person to check in groups. The breakfast experience alone should have made us run back to our hotel, but we thought, hey, we’re here it’s paid for. It’s cheap . Let’s rent our clubs and see what it’s all about……MISTAKE.

The course is by far the worst conditioned course I have ever seen, and I come from the Canadian Prairies . The tee boxes were over grown - the grass on some spots were longer than my tee. The fairways were burnt and filled with dead grass. The greens….I don’t have any words.

We finished playing 8 holes on the mountain course and left the course (we paid for 18). The Royal course was closed, but the backlog of golfers on 9 and the horrible experience to point did not prompt us to even want to have a look at the Indian 9.

We went back to club house and brought back the rental clubs (which were bad, old and can in a broke. Bag). The starter asked us how it went and we told him how it didn’t meet our expectations even with the discounted pricing ($75 each for round, cart and clubs). His response was, “well that’s shocking to hear as it’s actually in relatively good shape. You should come back in a month and it will be in tip top shape”. No thanks. We will never go back to that course and I hope we help some of you make a better decision than we did

This course is in the worst shape out of the 800+ courses in the valley. I normally wouldn’t have played here, but just wanted to play a quick 9. Check-in took 40 mins, because no one knew what they were doing. It’s a historic, tight track that either needs new management’ and funding, or just let it go. Terrible experience.

Tee boxes were so shaggy you couldn't see the ball on the tee. Fairways not cut properly, the rough was too deep for this course. Greens were lightning fast and no ball would stick to them.

The pro shop staff slow and unwelcoming. The course, bad shape. Poor mowing 3" fairways, missed areas in the fairway, lost balls, many teemarkers missing. Nolove on this course. Better off playing elsewhere until they care.

Maintenance poor

Uneven cutting of fairways

Piles of cut grass on fairways

Tee box markers sometimes 2 to 4

All greens patchy and bumpy

Buy a good lawnmower, keep the blades sharp, and use it. The course looked like a very bad haircut. Piles of grass everywhere, uncut and poorly manicured. Won’t be coming back. Expectations were low for $35, and it still was disappointing

Poor uneven cut on fairways.

Piles of cut grass all over.

Loosing ball in middle of the fairway because of the uneven grass.

Tropical Storm Hilary cause significant damage to the golf course which it hasn't recovered from making it

unplayable. The course should not even be open until

the recovery happens

It is a very sad position to continue to speak poorly of the course I live on and love. The only reason I continue to play here is the men and women of the respective clubs here. They are great!

We need new leadership to bring our course back to the glory of the past. It is a great course if taken care of.

As I have stated numerous times, the course is in very poor condition.. It needs cutting and proper care of the course. The GM and Owner seems to lack any care for the course or the residents who live here.

Very sad!

I continue to play here as I am a member of the Men's Club and I live here and hopes that the GM will begin improving the course.

Course is very difficult due to the extremely poor conditions of the course. The grass isn't cut properly when cut. You have fairways with grass more than five inches tall, the second cut and beyond is like jungle. It is common to lose balls in the fairway. I lost four balls in the first three holes on Indian.

Staff members are wonderful and the food and drinks in Hanger 19 are very good.

I live here at IPCC. The staff members are great, not management, It seems like they do not care about the condition of the course. Yes, this is off season; but the fairways should be cut properly not in a drunken manner.

Hanger 19 has great food from 10am to 6pm and very good drinks. You would need several drinks to play this course.

It is not uncommon to lose numerus balls in the fairway, less alone in the second cut.

Staff members are working hard and are very friendly. It is sad the owner and management will not give them the tools to maintain the course.

It is in very poor conditions. I could not recommend our course to anyone.

It's worst than a cow pasture. I think cow would not even like the course.

The Owner and GM need to make improvements. Yes, this is the off season; but, it still should have some likeness to a golf course and not a pasture.

Very sad!

I love living at IPCC, residents are overall wonderful folks. The course is in the worst conditions that I have seen in more than 40 years. You can't find your balls in the fairways. The fairway grass is 4 to 6 inches high. They do not cut the course evenly and they do not remove the cut grass. They leave it in lines of plies of dead grass. A cow pasture is in better condition.

I can only expect that the Owner and his GM doesn't care about the course or players/residents who are trying to support them.

Hanger 19 has very good food, and the staff works very hard to care for customers.

It is sad to see the conditions of one of the oldest courses in our valley. The owner and GM should be ashamed of themselves!

I have never seen a course that was so unkept. The grass everywhere was overgrown and had not been mowed in days. I lost multiple balls in the fairways and around the greens as the grass was 3-5 inches thick everywhere. Until the course is returned to playable condition...scratch this one off of your list.

The entire course is in horrible shape and seems like it hasn’t been maintained in a long while. I’d be ok if the rough was long and unkept during the summer in the valley but even the fairway was a foot long. We lost multiple balls that were in the fairway. You have to take 10 minutes each hole just looking for your ball so the round took forever. The staff was nice enough but a little heads up about the course would have been nice. We wouldn’t have played there. There was no refreshments for purchase after the turn at all either. I would have spent money but it just wasn’t possible. The restaurant wasn’t open until after 10am and there wasn’t an option to buy and premade sandwiches either or even Gatorade or beer. Nothing. It was a sad thing to play a course that once was well kept and fun to play.

The course is in very poor conditions. When you hit a ball in the fairway, and it takes several minutes to find it, sad. Other times you never find the ball. The grass is high and where it is cut, it's not cut evenly. If you hit it in the second cut forget it.

I live at IPCC and this course has continued to go down under the current management. It seems like the owner and management don't care.

The staff members are great and they are doing there best they can. The food service between 10am and 6pm is fantastic!