The Firecliff Golf Course - Palm Desert - California

As desert golf courses go, the Firecliff course at Desert Willow Golf Resort is, perhaps, the most spectacular municipal (yes, I did say municipal) course on the planet. Owned by the City of Palm Desert the resort offers two magnificent, traditional desert courses: The Firecliff and The Mountain. Both are spectacular and each has a character all its own.

The colors of the desert are stunning - flowers, bushes, fairways and greens - and each hole brings a new surprise. The biggest of those surprises is the amount of water present on the two courses. One tends to think of the desert as hot, dry and arid. Hot it certainly is; dry, it definitely is not. The entire Palm Desert area sits atop an aquifer of more than 135 square miles - there's enough water just below the surface of the desert to supply the entire Palm Springs area for the next 150 years. If you ever get the chance to play in the Palm Springs area, I recommend you try the Firecliff. You won't be disappointed.