Recently upgraded, with tee-times now available to nonmembers, Desert Island is a private golf club experience, with traditional amenities and privileges, embracing the diversity of new-generation golfers and old-guard players alike.
Welcoming All
Vintage Legacy
Established in 1971, the 18-hole championship golf course on Desert Island was designed by the legendary Desmond Muirhead, one of golf’s most famous and iconoclastic architects, who spent his career challenging conventional course design.
Private goes public
Welcome to the Private made Public, where Desert Island members and visitors mix in an updated, upgraded, thoroughly reanimated country club scene. Only on DI can you play a public course like a private club member, with many of the amenities and privileges traditionally associated with private clubs.
Playable
The Desert Island course is panoramic from every angle, challenging but not outlandish, with gentle slopes, cooling breezes from the 25 acre lake, plenty of shade from the treelined fairways and short distances between greens and tees.
Walkable
Walking is healthy, social, and helps optimize course conditions. Desert Island offers the most pleasant walking golf in the Coachella Valley:
Leather & chrome, easy-roll, Walker Trolleys equipped with chilled towels, insulated water bottles, and shade umbrellas. Generous ten-minute walking tee-time spacing. Unparalleled clubhouse showers and amenities.
For Those About to Walk…We Salute You!
Walking is healthy, social, and optimizes course conditions. Desert Island offers the most pleasant and amenitized walking golf in the Coachella Valley:
- Decadent leather & chrome, easy-roll, Walker Trolleys fully equipped with chilled towels, insulated water bottles, shade umbrellas and organizers.
- Short green to tee box distances with gentle slopes
- 2,000 mature shade trees
- Generous ten-minute walking tee time spacing
- Impeccable course maintenance
- Unparalleled clubhouse amenities
Carts
We have a brand-new fleet of high-performance Club Car Tempo Lithium-Ion Golf Cars, equipped with chilled insulated water bottles and chilled towels.
Refreshments
With a sprinkle of personal touches, such as chilled towels, insulated water bottles and Red’s, on-course mobile refreshment cart, on a hot day, Desert Island is the coolest place to be.
On course refreshment
Golfers can enjoy stellar on course refreshment every 4 1/2 Holes, at 9 1/2 or Red’s Oasis.
9 1/2 Bar & Kitchen
Situated next to the putting green between holes nine and ten, 91/2 Bar & Kitchen is the ideal al-fresco watering-hole for hungry and thirsty golfers before they tee off , half way through their round, after they finish, or indeed at all three times. Casual dining classics, craft coffee, cocktails, beer and wine.
Red's Oasis
Our mid-course watering hole featuring chef-created, bite sized delights, hand shaken cocktails, craft coffee, chilled towels and more. At the southern center of the course, Red’s is conveniently located adjacent to holes 4 and 13. Open 7 days a week for golfers only.
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Scorecard & Course Ratings
| Men’s | Women’s |
|---|---|
| Black 71.9/128 | White 75.9/131 |
| Blue 70.4/125 | White/Gold 74.5/127 |
| White 69.5/122 | Gold 73.1/123 |
| White/Gold 68.2/119 | Red 72.2/121 |
| Gold 67.0/116 | Red/Green 69.8/115 |
| Red 66.2/113 | Green 68.4/112 |
| Red/Green 64.1/107 | |
| Green 62.9/104 |
Membership
Open to non-members, one would be forgiven for asking why apply for membership to Desert Island? For avid golfers, the answer is a hole in one.
private club Life
Our strictly limited membership offers exclusive amenities to avid golfers who join Desert Island as private club ambassadors.
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