Indian Palms Golf & Country Club - Mountain/Royal

Let me start by acknowledging that I fully understood the condition of the course would not be "up to standard" due to the annual (and expected) overseeding going on. And as expected, the grass on the fairways and greens were scalped and dry. What wasn't expected, though, was the absence of other services. First of all, we started our day waiting for a cart. Upon check in, we were informed that they were "low on carts" and we - along with other groups - had to wait for other golfers to finish their rounds and return their carts before we could cart up. A group in front of us teed off at least 20 min late because they didn't have a cart. In my 25+ years of golfing in the desert, I have never heard of a course "running low on carts". Then none of the carts were equipped with coolers. The holders were there for them, but we weren't given one. So no coolers for us to take our own drinks; no water offered anywhere on the course; and no beverage cart. Based on the condition of the course, as well as the absence of absolutely every amenity one could expect on a day where temperatures got to 91 degrees, I felt that charging $73 a player was way overpriced. However, they know that they are one of only a very few "games in town" since most courses are closed altogether for reseeding. So they took advantage of the fact that people would be desperate enough to play SOMEWHERE that they would pay a higher price, even though the overall experience didn't warrant it. I would have felt satisfied had I paid $35 - $40 to play, but at $73 I felt I had overpaid for what I got.

The course is getting better. I would recommend paying the course due to it's historical interest as being one of the oldest course in the Coachella Valley.

It would be fun for all ages and levels of golfers.

Anyone writing anything close to a positive review for this course has to be a paid by the course. Stay away. I saved a couple $70 (2 green fees) as they were going to play tomorrow and I told them to save their money.

Just because limited courses are available in October and this one seems cheap…. please, please, do not waste your time or money playing it.

Hotel staff check you in. “Golf shop” is an open conference room with a cash register and a couple racks of outdated golf clothes. I should have ran when I walked in.

What a joke. Overgrown tee boxes. Dead grass/mud in the fairways. Grass in the bunkers. Even patches of dirt on the greens. Waste of $$$. Waste of time. Probably a good spot for a group of 10 guys who just want to get wasted and have golf cart drag races, but if you wanna actually play golf stay away.

We played Mountain and Royal. Royal was just reopened, still needs improvements, the greens are so rough, you cannot get a true roll. Mountain is better; but, still needs improvements with the tee boxes, fairways.

It is getting better!

First and last time at this course. Not worth the money.

The course only had 6 holes open and you had to

play those 6 holes 3 times to play 18!

Do not waste your time playing here. Two notches worse than a goat track.

THE worst course I have ever played. Ants all over the greens. Gopher holes everywhere. Tree debris not cleaned up.

Do not waste your time on this course. Thank goodness we only played 9 but $35 was way too much. We couldn’t wait to finish.

Interesting course with some quirks and challenges, but in terrible condition. May be the time of year (one breed of grass dying while another emerges)? But the ants are actively undermining the greens and large sections of fairway had no grass. For some reason the electronics had been removed from the cart so we had to listen to a loud hum the entire round - very irritating. Also, we were sent to the wrong course to start (3 nines) so we had to race to another tee box so we didn’t miss our tee time. Probably won’t go back but the course has such an interesting history - Eisenhower played here, we may make an exception and play there again.

before overseeding so the course was not in great shape; some confusion about which nine to start on; not always well marked

So I arrived 30 minutes early for my Hot Deal time. It was a excellent price $25. I go to check in and the guy says there's going to be a problem. I say what's the problem? He asks what I paid for the reservation, I tell him $25 and he says "I can't let you pay for that price, we've changed the price and now it's $70/ person" . I say "so you're not going to honor my existing reservation?" No answer, unbelievable.

I'll never deal with these guys again! Golf now looks like they are going to refund me but I have zero respect for Indian palms after that!!!

The course is getting better each day. The tees, fairways, and greens have improved over the past three weeks.

It has a great history and is one of the oldest courses in the Coachella Valley.

Yes, good place to play!

Terrible condition- embarrassingly bad. I Ted's up on one box and the grass was so high that my driver was like hitting out of the rough!

There were massive weeds growing up through an iron bench! I should have taken pictures--funny, not funny!

The course was in very poor condition with burnt fairways and very little green grass. The mountain course which we played first was in the worst condition with more dirt on the fairways then grass .. the greens were in terrible condition.. we played the Indian course for the second nine which was in better condition but not by a lot.. the sand traps had grass growing in them and were like hitting on cement.. truly a very poor experience at this course .The restaurant was probably that was only open after 11:00 was very poor and food was even worse to eat.. do not eat at this place.

The course is now playable and it is a good place for all levels of golfers.

It has a great history and you will enjoy playing it now.

They have begun making toe course playable from tees, fairways onto the greens.