12/09/2025
After 25 years, Brian Curley and Fred Couples have returned to The Palms Golf Club — the private La Quinta course they originally designed — to complete a thoughtful modernization that restores the course’s original character while updating it for today’s players.
They’ve reclaimed the “clean, classical” feel from 1999: creeks rebuilt, trees removed for strategic play and sweeping desert-valley views, fairways widened, and dramatic doglegs revived. The result? A layout that feels more open, more playable — and beautifully connected to its desert surroundings.
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More than a quarter of a century after crafting The Palms, Brian Curley and Fred Couples return for a modernization.