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Gee thanks, @No Mulligans, and we're supposed to have our first snow flurries in Virginia today.  I can take it, though, I leave on Saturday :dance:

Dave

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Had a great time.  Arrived Saturday at 12:30 PM, left Wednesday (today) at 11:00 PM.  Played all 5 days.  Digging the Cimarron courses.

Looking at the weather, the forecast says you are going to have great weather.

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On 1/8/2016 at 10:05 AM, DaveP043 said:

I got our tee times for my visit to Palm springs, and I wanted to send this around to the TSTers who might want to join us.  As I said earlier, we have six golfers, so we're likely to have two openings for each day.  Here's our schedule:

  Sunday, Jan 17     -         Indian Springs Golf Club .....   Rate is $89.00  (Includes lunch) (9:37 & 9:45)

Monday is booked up, I extended an invitation to a couple of Newport Cup guys first.

Tuesday,  Jan. 19 -          Classic Golf Club .............      Rate is  $139.00  (9:10 & 9:20)

  Wednesday, Jan. 20 -      Silver Rock .....................       Rate is  $170.00   (9:08 & 9:15)

  Thursday, Jan. 21 -          Desert Willow ................        Rate is  $120.00   (9:05 & 9:15 )

If any of y'all would like to join us, please let me know.

Both courses at Desert Willow are really nice.  The Firecliff course is a very tough track.  Mountain View was a little easier, but still challenging.  Have fun.

-Jerry

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Yeah, we played both of them last year, I think I remember liking the Firecliff Course better, but both were fun to play.  I'll just be happy to have temperatures above freezing!

Dave

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I had a great day today seeing @Golfingdad again, and meeting @tristanhilton85.  There was aven a little bit of good golf played!

Dave

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1 hour ago, DaveP043 said:

I had a great day today seeing @Golfingdad again, and meeting @tristanhilton85.  There was aven a little bit of good golf played!

Thanks again to you @DaveP043 and your buddies for letting us crash your group.  Sorry that I forgot my game at home.

 

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Thanks @DaveP043 for the invite to play some great courses. Here are some pics from SilverRock....

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And Desert Willow.

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Great to see TST group members getting out together. Beautiful courses! I can't wait for my two scheduled TST member outings in April!!

Vishal S.

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When he is back at home it will be interesting to hear @DaveP043's review of the courses. Which ones he liked best, least. I have my opinion on all of them I will be interested to hear Dave's.

Michael

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Those look like fun;  sorry I wasn't able to join.  Thanks for posting the picture @mvmac

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I'm in cold and wet southern China for the next 2 weeks. Thbbft... :-P

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We go out every year.  Heading out the first week of Feb.  This year we are playing  Desert Willow (Firecliff), Eagle Falls, Classic Club, and Escena.  There are soooo many great courses in Palm Springs.  Conditioning is usually great on all of them.  

 

Regards,

John

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Well sometimes a blizzard is a good thing. It looks like we'll be staying a few extra days, heading home Tuesday morning. So we get to play more golf, today at shadow ridge, tomorrow at westin mission hills dye course,  Sunday at Marriott desert springs. Not sure about Monday yet, but we'll find something.

Dave

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4 hours ago, DaveP043 said:

So we get to play more golf, today at shadow ridge, tomorrow at westin mission hills dye course,  Sunday at Marriott desert springs. Not sure about Monday yet, but we'll find something.

Enjoy!

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We finally did make it home to Virginia on Tuesday, to find everything covered by a foot of snow or more.  I kept some notes each day on the courses, and I'll try to weed through that stuff and post some summaries over the weekend.  I'm certain to have some time, there's no golf to be played.  Thanks again to everyone who provided advice.  Thanks also to @Golfingdad, @tristanhilton85, and @mvmac for coming out to join my friends and I for a round or two.

Dave

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:ping: G5i putter, B60 version
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On 1/23/2016 at 5:27 PM, DaveP043 said:

Well sometimes a blizzard is a good thing. It looks like we'll be staying a few extra days, heading home Tuesday morning. So we get to play more golf, today at shadow ridge, tomorrow at westin mission hills dye course,  Sunday at Marriott desert springs. Not sure about Monday yet, but we'll find something.

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on Desert Springs.  We've stayed there a few times when visiting the desert (and its a great hotel/spa) but never played the course(s).

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38 minutes ago, Golfingdad said:

I'm curious to hear your thoughts on Desert Springs.  We've stayed there a few times when visiting the desert (and its a great hotel/spa) but never played the course(s).

We played the other course (I think its the Valley) at Desert Springs last year, this year we played the Palms.  I liked both.  They're more forgiving than many, since there's very little "desert", but they both have some nice terrain.  The Palm was in pretty nice shape, rolling greens, water hazards on a reasonable number of holes, comfortably fast greens.  I thought the price was reasonable considering we must be in the high season, around $90. 

Dave

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15 minutes ago, DaveP043 said:

They're more forgiving than many, since there's very little "desert", but they both have some nice terrain.

Yeah, they would both comfortably fit into the "oasis" type definition if there were a such thing, right?:-P

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