Palm Springs Golf Course Reviews
Classic Club Golf Review
Palm Desert, CA
Blue tees: 72.9 rating; 135 slope |
Review by GolfTop18
Rating: 4 out of 5 Year Last Reviewed: 2015 More Info on Rating Criteria |
Classic Club Scorecard as of the date of last review
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Classic Club Overview: Former host of the Bob Hope Classic, this golf course is on the north side of the 10 freeway in the middle of the valley. Thus, it is wide open to the winds. However, if one were to ignore the desert location the golf course would not feel like a desert track, given the large amount of trees and water on many of the holes. It is a tough test of golf and the tee box presented above isn't even the pro tee. The best golf holes are reviewed below:
Classic Club Hole 1: The opening golf hole is a taste of things to come with water on one side and bunkers on the other, the golfer will see a lot of that throughout the day. The fairway is generous but tightens up as the player challenges the bunker to leave a shorter iron into the slightly elevated putting surface. |
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Classic Club Hole 3: This par four doglegs right around the water and yet again the driver needs to challenge the bunkers (or the water) to leave a more manageable approach to the slightly elevated green.
Classic Club Hole 6: Going right on this long par three is a mistake as there is a very deep bunker cut out of a steep hillside. However, the green is angled and narrow, so missing left will leave tough chips from the rough that is sitting above a putting surface running from left to right.
Classic Club Hole 8: The ideal drive will carry the water off the tee and stop short of the bunker on the right. This leaves the best angle to any pins cut center or back/left. There are tough bunkers left of the green.
Classic Club Hole 9: The last hole on the front nine has a very wide drive and begs the golfer to fly the bunker in the middle of the fairway. If that can be negotiated, the view is opened up to the hole that sits over a small creek with a lake left and behind. there is also water left of the second shot for the golfer who lays up.
Classic Club Hole 10: This nasty start to the back nine features large water hazard that is in play just right of the fairway from the tee, and again down a steep rocky slope just to the right of the green (and behind it). It is also very long and requires two really good golf shots to avoid extra strokes.
Classic Club Hole 11: This hole doglegs right around a creek and the more the golfer can bite off from the tee, the shorter the approach will be with a better angle as well. Of course, the far side of the fairway houses some bunkers that will make approaches from there tough as the water cuts in front of and left of the green.
Classic Club Hole 12: Another tough hole, this par three is essentially an island hole with water everywhere but back left, which has a bunker from which up and down is unlikely.
Classic Club Hole 13: Another pretty driving hole, this one is not very long and the drive just need clear the water and bunkers. However, the approach shot is another matter. The green is only 25 yards deep, has a bunker short and two behind and has a small tier separating left from right. So, hitting high shots in is much better.
Classic Club Hole 15: The water to the right is more visible but only really in play for a shank or other really bad shot. The water on the left runs the length of the hole, which is not too long, fortunately. The fairway pinches in very tight at about 100 yards from the hole so there is no need for heroics, unless the golfer can really bomb one over all the trouble (most folks wouldn't even have that thought enter their mind).
Classic Club Hole 16: Broken record here: long par four, dogleg, drive needs to be hit well and fit between lake and the bunkers to leave a decent angle to the green.The water is in play here short of the green too.
Classic Club Hole 18: A super drive that hugs the water can actually make this par five reachable in two, but the green from that angle is very shallow and is all over water. Played normally, the golfer wants to hit their second shot as far up the fairway as possible to leave a straight shot to the green which is very deep from that angle.
