Indian Canyons Golf Resort — Hotel in Palm Springs

Indian Canyon is a nice golf course that is located in Palm Springs. It is a desert type golf course, so there grass and vegetation is situated for this environment and one may not be used to these. The course is well maintained and looks good. Most of the course is relatively flat, but a few hole you will be hitting down onto the fairway.

Tee boxes: Most tee boxes are nice, some the grass is a bit thin, but still alright.

Fairway: The fairways are good, nice grass. Of course, this is were you want to be. There are a few dirt patches or spots were the grass has not grown back, but just a few places. There are fairway bunkers and they are placed in ideal locations to make you think of them and makes them course more challenging. Look ahead to avoid them. If you do end up in one of them, there is nice sand to hit out of. Most of the fairways have some undulation in them and the ball will roll out with the undulation. Good course management will keep you in a good spot. The width of the fairways are mostly decent to generous, a few are narrower than others. It is a desert golf course, so there will be some desert on the left or right of the course, but not on both sides. There are a bunch of palm trees on either side of each hole, we were able to miss them or get lucky a few times to get a good bounce off of them. If you don't like water hazards on the course, well, there are a few. But they can be easily negotiated if you look ahead and plan...but if you go for the glory shot, good luck.

Rough: The rough wasn't to penalizing when we ended up in it. We were still able to make pretty good shots out of the rough. Your ball may not roll out as much and get caught up in the rough.

Greens: Not sure on the type of grass, but the greens are good. The ball will bounce occasionally, even if you make the smoothest putt. This is likely due to the type of grass that needs to be used in the desert. Didn't see any dead spots on the greens or any aeration. The greens are not really fast, but you need to get the speed right or you will be real short or have a longer putt than you really wanted. There is undulation on these greens, and hitting the right spot can give you a better looking putt. An app or greens book can help you out. The green side bunkers are nice if you end up in them. There is just the right amount of sand in them to make a good bunker shot.

Amenities: -Driving range near hole 1 -Putting and chipping area near hole1 -Restaurant at the clubhouse -Pro Shop - check them out, they do have good deals -Carts are nice with GPS overview of each hole, no greens reading

The staff here were very helpful and friendly from the clubhouse to the end of the round. The starter evened warned us of the desert wildlife and what to look out for to keep us safe.

Great course to go and play, we would like to come back at some point for...

Just letting anyone know... do not pay for this course. I'm a single digit handicap from SoFL that visited Palm and attempted to play this course because of its history and special rate online. This place looks like it could be awesome and I was excited to tee off but only to realize 2 holes in that it is in terrible... HORRIBLE shape and Totally rundown / neglected. Looks like they haven't put a dime into maintenance for 5 years and their irrigation is non existent. The worst part is I even called to check the conditions / make sure they hadn't punched the greens lately, Yet they sold me a $59 rate like they had simply overseeded the fairways. Overseeding makes the grass grow thicker and bushier yet playable in the normal golf world. There were NO fairways because there was no damn grass to hit off of. I literally felt embarrassed to be there for 59 bucks ...even 20 bucks I hate to say. This is the first time I have ever negatively reviewed a golf course and didn't think I ever would not my style. I respect golf courses tremendously and know there are ups and downs. They should either lower rates to 25Bucks and make this a low end cart fee type practice course OR just shut her down. I literally drove off the course on number 7 and was the most pissed off I have ever been on a golf course. I thought about disputing my credit card because otherwise I would have used a rain check as toilet paper. I just left because I didn't want to yell at the older lady inside. Def not my style... And btw the staff was actually very professional and friendly and they are just doing their job. I told the outside operations guy... good luck I don't think this grass is ever coming back... he agreed. Moral of the story is this course got a terrible review from me as they basically stole my money by misrepresenting conditions and being scumbags for even pricing this course at that rate in those conditions. They need to Just close the course and get it growing again and stop taking money from innocent beginner players that don't know the difference. You'll have much more fun playing mini golf then...

Went for breakfast before our 10 a.m. round on Presidents day. Excellent breakfast very reasonably priced too! Golf check in was quick, friendly staff. Course was predictably busy on a beautiful Palm Springs morning. Course is very player friendly a bit of water on the front 9; with a number of holes on the back nine having water penalty areas. Greens were in very good condition, some of the greens have undulations so you have to be on the correct level to avoid 3 putting! All the fairways were escellent. There is no dormant rough and few, if any, desert waste areas. Rough was lush. Bunkers were for the most part in very good condition with lots of sand in most. Downside was that there were many tee boxes ( teal tees) that were not level some very much so. Also there are a few holes where you will be heading back from a green to the next tee box into on coming players so you have to pay attention. Lots of hills framing the fairways which is good, trees will come in to play if you miss the fairway. Pace of play was excellent, we were done in just over 4 hours. Price point was decent/good for this time of year in the Palm Springs area. Definitely play...