JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa

For the past 30 years we have been coming to the desert every four or five years. Desert Springs Palms Course was always one of our scheduled places to play. I have even scheduled tournaments there with our business group. We had a 9:40 tee time and teed off on time.We were having a wonderful day on the golf course with our friends who had never played there before. We were three and a half hours into the round finishing up the 14th hole when one of the staff came out and said we could finish on the back nine of the Valley Course. When I asked why and he said he had a shotgun tournament starting at 1;30. Why did they book a 9;40 tee time when they had a 1;30 shotgun? We could not have possibly finished by 1:30 and we did not pay all the money to play the Valley Course. And why didn’t anyone mention that when we checked in or at anytime during the round? I asked them to refund our green fees and after a while they did. This was a real sour note to the start of our vacation. We won’t be back.

As a threesome we played 18 holes in a little over 3 hours. Excellent pace of play

GPS could provide more information, especially distances to bunkers and water hazards.

Great day of golf, good pace, driving and putting green

Never will play here again. Resort course pricing. Bunkers have no sand. Greene are stupid slow. Pin placement make no sense for pace of play. No Marshall. Group ahead of us was 2 holes behind.

Very enjoyable round. Played in 3hrs and 20 minutes.

Humps and strange lies everywhere. No doglegs. But any ball short of the greens often led to funky side hill lies on these humps and with strange grippy grass. So our chipping / putting was awful. The greens were very very slow but also hard enough that they wouldn’t hold even a lob wedge.