Escena Golf Club: Member Reviews

1100 Clubhouse View Drive
Palm Springs, CA 92262 • (760) 778-2737

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Palm Springs, CA (92262)

78°F
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Humidity: 10%
Wind: E at 5mph

Sunset: 7:00 pm
green Sunrise: 6:42 am

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21. efagen

Posted: 07/17/17 10:08a
Member Since: Feb 21, 2014
From: Temecula

Played the course for the first time today and loved it. The layout was interesting and pretty challenging. The par 3's are really tough, I think 3-4 of them were over 200 yards. They just punched the... Continue »

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7.3 Conditions

22. teddy22122

Posted: 07/06/17 8:40a
Member Since: Jul 6, 2017
From: Vancouver-Canada

Course was in great shape played it June 10/17. Greens were immaculate and fairways well maintained. One down fall no GPS..

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Rated
8.0 Conditions

23. dubwiser

Posted: 06/09/17 11:02a
Member Since: Oct 7, 2011
From: San Diego

Played early May on GN Hot Deal for ~$30 around noon and it was well worth it. Course conditions were excellent, everything was lush. Greens were medium pace and we figured out on the back nine to jus... Continue »

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7 Likes.

Rated
8.0 Conditions

24. robule

Posted: 06/07/17 12:37p
Member Since: Jul 4, 2003
From: Indio

Played on 6/5/17 with abbacat for 3.5 hours of fun in the semi blistering heat. It was hot but not bad once acclimated. The heat will definitely sneak up on you if not careful. The light breeze sure took the edge off.

The practice facility greens and short game is real nice. Only has mats and a net to hit into for full shots. I should have hit the local muni to warm up a few full swings.

Tee boxes were lush, level and minor divot damage. Real easy to find a decent spot to tee it up.

Fairways were in great shape and ample landing areas. For this late in the year to have lush areas with little to no brown areas was really nice. Never had a bad lie in the fairways. A couple of them have a choice of direction around bunkers when considering total distance, 18 being one of them. The rough could be NASTY. I found some real bad spots a couple of times and it was work to get out from it and advance the ball.

The sand was good in most bunkers. I noticed quite a few small stones in the ones I was in. Only one had sand that was hard packed top with really saturated sand below, and difficult to play from. All others were not hard to play from.

The greens were very nice. They were accepting of a good shot, with minimal rollout. They rolled mediumish as I meow-mixed more than a few putts. I think the practice green was faster by a bit. Not too many fresh ball marks but just enough to make a mess of the really nice greens. The older unfixed ones were the bigger issue. Seems there are too many lazy, inconsiderate folks playing the game out here. I failed to ask how they mark pins with flag colors, etc. Made gauging distance pretty tough from the fairways if it wasn't obvious.

If you like 200ish+ yard par 3's this is for you from the Championship tees, even longer from the Tourney tees. Three of the five par 3's are 200+ range going to 230 depending on pin placement. I personally don't like that many for a 6600 yard course. The other 2 were 150 and 170.

Didn't have much contact with the staff. The guys in the shop were accommodating in getting us out early ahead of a threesome. We eventually caught a threesome around hole 14 that slowed the flow a bit.

The course is nice, has some interesting holes, I'd play again out here.

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9 Likes.

Rated
8.4 Conditions

25. abbacat

Posted: 06/06/17 7:50p
Member Since: May 27, 2013
From: Trabuco Canyon

I played yesterday, Monday 6-5-17. It was my first time and I was joined by GK’r Robule. We got a great price with a GN hot deal. My first impression was that it looked very similar to many other dese... Continue »

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26. jjrauen

Posted: 05/27/17 8:03p
Member Since: Apr 10, 2009
From: Brea

Played here for first time, Saturday 5/27/17. Landed here after finding a $45 Saturday 745am tee time online. Called Pro Shop to be sure everything was in order as I was surprised to find such a reas... Continue »

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13 Likes.

Rated
7.6 Conditions

27. eatmon

Posted: 04/21/17 4:14p
Member Since: Jul 20, 2005
From: Rancho Palos Verdes

Played the course on March 25th. Tee time was at 8:44, got around as a foursome in just over four hours. Course was in terrific shape from tee box to green. Cost was around $85 and though not the leas... Continue »

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28. aakes90278

Posted: 01/18/17 9:29a
Member Since: Dec 28, 2002
From: redondo beach

Played here on Friday January 13 in wet conditions. It rained off and on throughout our round but we were able to finish without getting soaked. The course is in very nice condition right now and the ... Continue »

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11 Likes.

Rated
8.0 Conditions

29. bmcnicoll

Posted: 12/22/16 1:05p
Member Since: Jan 2, 2007
From: Edmonton, Canada

Returned to this course on December 13th. It is one of my favorites and likely my favorite course in the valley. It was in excellent shape through all phases of the track. The greens were fast and ... Continue »

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16 Likes.

Rated
8.5 Conditions

30. HmtGolfGuy

Posted: 09/24/16 12:43a
Member Since: Nov 25, 2012
From: Hemet, CA

Played Thursday morning as a single, was joined on #1 tee by Pete and Tom, played the "Championship" (aka blue) tees.

Conditions were quite good, a few bare spots in the fairways, most of them at "high spots" where the water would run off. Tees were level and in great shape, even the par 3's didn't show much damage. Rough was fairly short but not that much of it, the course is protected more by the natural areas lining many holes. Sand was the best I've experienced in a long time, very even, not "heavy" and plenty of it.

Greens were firm but still held shots well - short irons might take a short hop then sit down, longer irons or hybrids/fairway woods would run out a bit. Guy at the pro shop said they were running about an 8 - if that's their version of an 8 I don't want to see a 10! Rolled true all day, no noticeable difference as the day went on. LOTS of tiered greens, if you're on the wrong side 3-putts could be a fairly common occurrence (#12 is just nasty!).

Service was good, cart came by 3-4 times and several tees had cold water jugs. Extra towel for each player in the cart and a cooler with ice on each cart. NO GPS system so make sure you bring your own or a rangefinder.

Pace of play . . . not so good. We started about 1 hole behind a threesome playing the "Men's" tees (white) and could see another threesome about 1 hole ahead of them. By number 3 the other group was long gone and we were waiting on every shot. At the turn, the group in front of us continued straight to #10 while we went inside, Pete went to his car, etc - and when we got back to #10 they were JUST driving out of range! No marshall to address the problem, Pete and Tom were obviously quick players (not sixpez quick, but i'm not sure anyone is! lol) and it took us 4.5 hours to finish the round (could have been done in a very relaxed 3 and change).

Overall I really enjoyed the course, nice variety of holes in different directions so when the wind comes up (as it did starting on #12) you'll end up playing a lot of different shots and probably using every club you've got. Nice touch was their follow-up email saying thanks for playing and offering a 20% discount for ANY time booked within the next two days (time frame for booking, not playing).

Definitely be back, especially when I can get a great deal like I did this time!

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13 Likes.

Rated
7.0 Conditions

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