Desert Dunes ( 1989, RTJ Jr) in Desert Hot Springs, CA....CLOSED

[Steve_ Shaffer]

Not all golf courses have experienced a boom in business during the COVID-19 era. Some face the same challenges they did before the pandemic brought thousands of new golfers to the game: water availability and costs; maintenance and staff costs, and competition in saturated markets.
Those were the issues facing the first Robert Trent Jones Jr. course ever opened in California’s Coachella Valley, and sadly, the facility is disappearing. In news first reported by the Palm Springs Desert Sun, the public Desert Dunes Golf Course in Desert Hot Springs announced on its website that the facility has been permanently closed.
In the statement, the course operators said: “Management thought this would be a good year. The course was in great shape and management even ordered a new golf cart fleet. Unfortunately, a combination of the weather, the well on 16 collapsing , the watering system needing to be rebuilt, and continuing losses caused the decision to close.
“We sincerely appreciate your previous support and the support of our amazing staff. We did our best to try to make it work, however, when we ran out of money trying to maintain the course to the standards, we have all enjoyed. Our outside funding ceased and given all the issues, we had no choice than to close the course.”



Desert Dunes golf course in Desert Hot Springs shuts down 'permanently'

[Kevin_Reilly]

Why didn't you just add this to the California closed course thread instead of once again a copy and paste from an online article?

[Matt Schoolfield]

Why didn't you just add this to the California closed course thread instead of once again a copy and paste from an online article?

It's old news anyway. I went to update the wiki, and it has been listed there as closed since October 31st.

[Greg Hohman]

The list at the start of the thread Kevin is referring to has not been updated in a while. DD is Reply #123.