Golf is extraordinary. It challenges you, teaches life classes and encourages fellowship. It additionally means that you can immerse your self in breathtaking artwork. I’m not speaking about artwork hanging in museums. I’m speaking in regards to the artwork of a golf course and a vacation spot. 

As golfers, we all know the well-known golf locations: Pebble Seashore Golf Hyperlinks, Torrey Pines Golf Course and St Andrews. The listing goes on and on and may embrace a lesser-known vacation spot.

California’s Coachella Valley. Particularly, Indian Wells Golf Resort. 

Indian Wells Golf Resort

Indian Wells Golf Resort is smack dab in the midst of Coachella Valley. Why is it a vacation spot price contemplating? It’s a resort with a twist. It’s a 36-hole municipal golf facility. That’s proper. It’s technically a “muni.” Whereas the Metropolis of Indian Wells owns the property, it outsources its administration to Troon Golf. I can personally attest that Troon’s presence brings life, hospitality and excessive buyer satisfaction requirements to Indian Wells Golf Resort.

Magnificence and The Beast

Enjoyable reality: Magnificence and the Beast was my favourite film as a baby, in line with my mother and father. As of late, I can aptly apply that phrase to 2 phenomenally totally different golf programs: The Celeb and The Gamers. 

The Celeb Course

• Clive Clark design
• Opened in 2006
• A number of statewide accolades
• Par 72
• Performs as much as 7,038 yards

This course is “The Magnificence” for a purpose. For starters, the local weather of the Coachella Valley enhances the taking part in situations. Head Superintendent Nick Leitner and his crew present world-class upkeep to this beautiful golf course.

There’s a saying, “silence is golden.” I consider that may be a excellent illustration of the Celeb Course. Phrases don’t do it justice as you maneuver by means of this golf course whereas the solar units. Each gap possesses its personal character. For me, your entire course is memorable and one I might play day by day with enjoyment. 

I’ll let the photographs do the remainder of the speaking. 

The Gamers Course

• John Fought design
• Opened in 2007
• A number of statewide and nationwide accolades
• Par 72
• Performs as much as 7,376 yards

From the again tees, “The Beast” is a formidable golf course. There are a slew of blind tee photographs, compelled carries and strategically positioned bunkers. We didn’t topic ourselves to the agony of taking part in the again tees. Nevertheless, from any tees, the difficult format exams each side of your sport. 

The Gamers Course will make you a greater golfer. Sure, it’s known as “The Beast” for a purpose however it’s playable. My advice is to play the tees appropriate to your ability degree and even transfer up a tee field. Go away your ego at residence and also you’ll get pleasure from your spherical way more. 

And earlier than I neglect, there’s magnificence to this beast. Take a look at the gallery beneath. 

Enjoyable For Everybody

In the beginning, Indian Wells Golf Resort is a vacation spot golf facility. Nevertheless, there are facilities that provide enjoyable for your entire household, a big group or a date evening. 

Pictures within the Night time

Pictures within the Night time runs from October by means of Might with various schedules. There are three totally different experiences.

• Laser Placing – This exercise permits a bunch to play a wide range of video games on actual placing greens. Your entire course of is managed through iPad and provides pleasant competitors.
• Toptracer Driving Vary – Prospects can play glow golf on the Toptracer driving vary. They’ll compete in a mess of video games or towards a pc participant. 
• Winterfest – This celebration encompasses a full-size curler skating rink with a reside DJ and lights. It’s really a winter wonderland within the desert. All through the schedule, there are themed occasions and actions for all ages. 

Keep and Play

Chances are you’ll be questioning “if this can be a resort, the place is the lodging?” It’s an amazing query and reinforces the uniqueness of IWGR. 

Indian Wells has a working relationship with three resorts which might be all inside strolling distance – Renaissance Esmerelda Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Resort & Spa and Tommy Bahama Miramonte Resort & Spa. 

I stayed on the Renaissance Esmerelda Resort & Spa. Let me inform you, each bone in my physique wished to discover Coachella Valley as a result of it was my first time there. Then again, there isn’t a purpose to depart Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa. It has all the things you want for a visit: beautiful lodging, three most important eating choices, heated swimming swimming pools, a spa, health and yoga facilities, an arcade and escape room and, to prime it off, the customer support and employees are distinctive. 

Households can get pleasure from “Camp Esmeralda” which provides organized enjoyable for youngsters. This provides the mother and father an opportunity to benefit from the expertise like actual grown-ups. 

The perfect a part of all of it (and that is the golfer in me) is that you’re a six-minute stroll to the golf resort—the right warmup to your spherical of golf. 

Different Facilities

The Academy at IWGR

Indian Wells Golf Resort’s academy encompasses a plethora of educational alternatives for golfers. It doesn’t matter if you’re a newbie or a seasoned participant. Listed here are a few of their choices and options.

• Wells36 – Appropriate for all ages and prioritizes taking instruction from the vary to the golf course. 
• Trackman Hitting Bays – Trackman expertise in two indoor bays is used for instruction and fittings, particularly through the sizzling, desert summers. 

Vue Grille & Bar

The Vue Grille & Bar is open day by day to accommodate your dietary wants. As well as, there’s the Fairway Grille located by the beginning tees of the Celeb and Gamers Golf Programs. In addition they supply food-truck companies, particularly throughout Winterfest nights. The Fairway Grille is a stellar approach to start or finish your spherical. The meals is phenomenal and, as soon as once more, I can’t heap sufficient reward on the employees. 

The Professional Store

“Store til you drop” is an correct description of the professional store. Together with the standard choices of FootJoy, Peter Millar, TravisMathew, et al. However what I preferred most was their much less mainstream choices corresponding to: 

Coachella Valley’s Hidden Gem

Coachella Valley is difficult to beat. Its magnificence and local weather makes it a well-liked vacation spot for the wealthy and well-known in addition to simply plain people such as you and me. It doesn’t matter what your tax bracket, be ready to shell out for big-time resort golf charges to play at Indian Wells Golf Resort however, for my part, the expertise is price it. To me, that is Coachella Valley’s hidden gem. 

I’ve spent a majority of my working profession on the inexperienced grass and retail facet of the golf business. Hospitality and excellent customer support are crucial in these two areas. Indian Wells Golf Resort and their partnering resorts supply first-class facilities and repair. The mixture of those two components make for an unimaginable and memorable expertise. 

Ultimately, Indian Wells Golf Resort is a prize piece of artwork inside the Coachella Valley. The golf is great. The views are breathtaking. However it’s the people who’re the artists and convey this masterpiece to life. Go discover it for your self.