Played Dos Lagos with friend Tuesday, first time for him and I told him he would do great as his tee shots are down the middle (he did 80) Course is in good shape as far as most lies are good in fairway and greens are nice and full. Bunkers have more sand then most public courses. Just seems to play a lot longer than score card says, the 6 par 3's and two short par 4's are nice but long par 5's do play long. (from Whites). Course was fun, no houses within reach and some wide open fairways on the back nine.

Played Here Friday, another course in the Desert that has improved to excellent shape in the last 3 years. We had played Shadow Hills South in Indio in the AM (It is in excellent shape also) and here on the Resort course at 1PM. Only about 102 out and course was almost empty. NOTHING in the inland empire compares to the shape these desert courses are in.

Played Saturday in 3 hours at 9 AM. Had not played here in 8 years. Course is 100% perfect, they have used an abundance of sod to fix any spots needing repair and it has worked out very well. Long hitters can score low here, and us short hitter on foreword tees get to hit a lot of shorter irons into greens making scoring good for us. Course goes through a very nice gated community but is amazingly laid out so the homes, better than most, do not crowed play. As with many Palm Desert area courses it is open to the public a very short time in summer and just worth the effort to play in the 100 degree plus weather.

Played as a single in 2.5 hours starting a 8AM Thursday. Course in great shape, only charged $35 as course had fairways punched (they picked up all the cores and holes were smaller than most fairway punch so did not effect play other than a few yards of roll out. Course is Bermuda Grass tee to green and 90% of lies are great. Greens very true, sand traps in excellent shape with the edges premium cut. Several tee box's so long hitters have challenge and short hitters on foreword tees also have some yardage challenge. As with many desert courses chipping and pitching is a blessing as grass is carpet like around greens.

Without question still best price round in Inland Empire. Fairway bunkers just hard pan, green side bunkers almost playable, Rest of course as good as you find at the price. Fairways about 85% playable lies without bump. Greens very good, speed average with uphill slow and down hill fast enough to get away. Very full tee sheets in the morning and 4 and half hour round regular. ;They have just cut rough so play has speeded up a bit and they have started trying to close and take care of a few tee boxes.

June 1, $65 Eagle Falls at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio...Course is tops in all areas from the driving range to sand in traps both fairway and green side. You get near the greens and grass is so perfect like chipping, pitching off mats, just have to be careful that the spin you hardly ever get does not keep stopping your ball short shot after shot. Place is in such good shape even the flag sticks and cups look new and cups cut sharp and level NICE. Only down side is the heat, which was not bad on June 1st, but having to wait on two groups of "Good Old Boy" golfers, (need to get close and watch each others shot instead of going to your shot and being ready) made it a little over 4 hours when conditions are so good it should not have been.

Played as first two sum behind men's club Tuesday and agree with others the last two groups of men's club, a four sum and the last a 5 sum (4 carts) did nothing to speed up play and were rather generous with parking carts a foot off greens. Front nine fairways, for most part have fair grass coverage, back nine is another story as they are in the mist of no water due to delays with new pump on 18th fairway. Tee box's on some holes were almost impossible to find a level spot (note we played from forward tees using the best drive to speed up play) Greens for the most part are filled in pretty good, they were very long still coming out of punch. Fairway bunkers are all mainly hard pan, bunker around greens do have some "dirt" to play out of. Best I can say it the course is better than it was 3 months ago as more of the summer grass has spread out in places. Safe bet if City did not own and have this course zoned the way it is, it would not be here.

While in Laughlin drove up to Kingman and played Cerbat Cliffs, driving range good, Love the wide open huge fairways driver paradise. Green were un-puttable as large punches were not sanded so we were bouncing the ball towards the holes or away from the holes most of the time. Bunkers around greens were OK, fairway bunkers lots of rocks and little sand. Fairways had good coverage and lies very good. As said, fairway for most of course are WIDE and no houses on most of fairways so being at some elevation drivers were fun and long. Even without any chance on the greens we scored well as course plays shorter than yardage. Very good price for a public course...one sad note gas powered carts that are fast but when you have to drive slow the fumes are bad.

Had not played Indian Hills in a couple years, what happened the place is 100% better. Kikuyu grass has fairways full for the most part and lies are great. Greens coming out of punching will be good to go in another week. Traps around greens have sand just a bit thin, fairway traps more like hard pan with little give. Course has been cleaned up a lot and the Kikuyu grass has filled in the fairways and tee boxes (tee boxes are not level on many holes have to be a little generous with your tee location)., all in all would recommend going back out there if you have not played it in years as we had, very green right now and for a low end public course it is as good as I have played this year., (was amazed it is in much better shape than course down the street Jurupa Hills which used to be better, not now).

Played in 4 hours starting at 12 today. Had not played here in 4 months, course fairways have improved some, I was surprised, we were able to play the ball down today on every fairway. Fairway bunkers are still hard pan for the most part, green side bunkers we were in allowed real sand shots. This is not a high end Muni by any stretch but for the price (carts have nice GPS and are fairly new) it is very playable. Back tees are far enough to give good players some challenge and foreword tees for us over 70 hackers are very fair. WE enjoyed the round much more than last time out here.

Just as I said about the course when we played in the summer, all that green grass in fairways was GRAB GRASS and when it died you have dirt. Moving ball around in fairways is the only way to play the course right now unless you want to practice hitting off bare dirt lies, you will have plenty. I kinda liked the fine dirt in the sand traps, different and really easy to get out of, just think lob shot dirt will not stop you like sand. Greens were slow and most puts fairly straight even if you do not read them that way. Did not think we would get any better playing conditions than we did, but we agreed to moving ball around in fairways so it was still fun. Just have to play some of these far less than perfect courses now if you want a good tee time.

Hemet is one of those golf course you play because course conditions are not as important as getting out to play. Rough conditions all over, hit and miss fairway coverage, greens OK not to fast and hold line OK. Still a few interesting holes that need some good shot placements to score on. Carts have GPS and are in good shape. People are friendly and pace of play seems slower than what the time will show. We had fun even with the fight to find a good lie in many fairways. Again a place to play when you do not expect anything resembling a Country Club.