Best golf courses: California / Nevada

William Francis "Billy" Bell Jr.

Jack Daray Jr & Stephen Halsey

Nicklaus Design (project led by Steve Nicklaus)

Arnold Palmer & Ed Seay

Original design by Arnold Palmer & Ed Seay (1989); renovated by Bob Cupp & John Fought (1993).

Legend course: designed by Arnold Palmer (1999). Challenge course: designed by Fuzzy Zoeller & John Harbottle III (2000).

An Arnold Palmer Signature Course

Tom Lehman and Casey O'Callaghan

Arnold Palmer & Ed Seay

Desmond Muirhead and Olin Dutra

Johnny Miller & Chi Chi Rodriguez

Schmidt-Curley Design (Lee Schmidt & Brian Curley).

Gary Roger Baird

Originally designed by General Bob McClure. Significantly upgraded, re-routed and re-bunkered by Gene Bates (2008/09).

Original design by US Army General Edwin Carnes. Significantly upgraded, re-routed and re-bunkered by Gene Bates (2008/09).

Jack Nicklaus

Original design by George C. Thomas and William Park "Billy" Bell (1925). Modifications made by various designers over subsequent years, including Dick Wilson, George Fazio, Robert Trent Jones Jr (1976) and Tom Fazio. Major renovation, returning the course to its George Thomas origins, by Tom Doak (2018).

Mountains course: Arthur Hills (1991).
Canyons course: Tom Fazio (1998).

Arthur Hills

Original designer unknown; redesigned by Ted Robinson Sr (1990).

Original design (1977) and modifications (2008) by Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Mark Rathert

Johnny Miller, Robert Muir Graves & Damian Pascuzzo.

Original layout at this location by Arthur Vernon "Mac" Macan and Willie Locke (1926). Modifications by Dr. Alister MacKenzie (1928), Robert Trent Jones Sr (1965) and Kyle Phillips (2005).

Brian Costello

Original design by Pete Dye. Later renovation designed by Gene Bates (2006).

Rees Jones

Johnny Miller & Jack Barry, with later revision to 18-holes by Algie Pulley.

Ted Robinson Jr.

John Fought

John Harbottle III

Arnold Palmer

Gary Panks

Carter Morrish

Gary Panks & Michael Angus

Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Original design by Jack Daray Sr; revised by William Francis "Billy" Bell Jr.

A Jack Nicklaus Signature Course

Original course redesigned by Nicklaus Design Co.

Cal Olson & Payne Stewart

Brad Bell

A Jack Nicklaus Signature design

Arthur Hills

Greg Nash

Dr Alister MacKenzie & Robert Hunter

Peter Jacobsen & Jim Hardy

John Harbottle

Keith Foster

Arnold Palmer & Ed Seay

Andy Raugust

Charles Maud (a golf and polo enthusiast).

Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Ronald (Ron) Fream

Perry Dye

Ted Robinson (Sr).

Ted Robinson (Sr).

Hurdzan/Fry Design (Dr Michael J. Hurdzan & Dana Fry) working with PGA Tour player John Cook.

Hurdzan/Fry Design (Dr Michael J. Hurdzan & Dana Fry) working with PGA Tour player John Cook.

Co-designed by Jack Nicklaus and Gene Sarazen

Denis Griffiths

Clive Clark

Gary Roger Baird

Johnny Miller, Ron Fream & David Dale

Homer Flint

Johnny Miller

George Fazio and nephew Tom Fazio.

Original design by Lawrence "Larry" Hughes (1957); extensive redesign by Tom Fazio (2003).

Cary Bickler

Nicklaus Design

Originally designed by William Park "Billy" Bell, with a significant renovation by Perry Dye in 1997.

Peter Jacobsen & John Harbottle III

Johnny Miller & John Harbottle III

Robert Muir Graves, Damian Pascuzzo & N. Meagher.

Father/son team of Ted Robinson & Ted Robinson Jr.

Tom Fazio

Peter Jacobsen & Jim Hardy

Dr Alister MacKenzie

George C. Thomas Jr designed the Harding and Wilson courses, which opened in 1923 and 1927 respectively.

Arthur Hills

Original design by Arnold Palmer & Francis "Frank" Duane (1973); renovation by Arthur Hills (2005).

Arthur Hills

Bob Baldock

Ken Hunter Jr. and Mike McGinnis

Original course designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr (1969). Redesigned by Kyle Phillips (2004).

Classic course: designed by co-founder of Indian Wells CC, Eddie Susalla (1956).
Cove course: designed by Eddie Susalla and Ted Robinson Sr (1965).

Original layout (known as the West course) designed by Ted Robinson (1986). Substantial redesign by Clive Clark (2006), and renamed as the Celebrity course.

Original layout (known as the East course) designed by Ted Robinson (1986). Substantial redesign by John Fought (2007), and renamed as the Players course.

William Francis "Billy" Bell Jr & Casey O'Callaghan.

William Francis "Billy" Bell Jr & Casey O'Callaghan.

Original design by Dick Wilson (1965); later improvements by Joe Lee (1973, 1984) and Damian Pascuzzo, Steve Pate & Jeff Brauer (2011).

Original design by Dick Wilson (1965); later improvements by Joe Lee (1973, 1984).

Tom Weiskopf

Robert Trent Jones Sr.

Larry Mancour

Robert Muir Graves

Edmund B. Ault

Bert Stamps

Arthur Hills

Original design by Ted Robinson Sr (1995); remodelled by Perry Dye (2000).

North course: original course at this location laid out by club founders and members Joe Sartori, Ed Tufts, Norman Macbeth and Charles Orr. Later modifications by Englishman course designer Herbert Fowler (1921), and a subsequent revamp and re-routing designed by George C. Thomas Jr and William Park "Billy" Bell (1927). Further changes made by Gil Hanse, Geoff Shackleford & Jim Wagner (2010).
South course: redesigned by Gil Hanse & Geoff Shackelford (2016).

Father/son team of Pete Dye & Perry Dye, and Fred Couples

Father/son team of Pete Dye & Perry Dye, and Fred Couples

Johnny Miller, Robert Muir Graves & Damian Pascuzzo

Jack Nicklaus

Johnny Miller & Fred Bliss

Dinah Shore Tournament course designed by Desmond Muirhead (1972).
Arnold Palmer Signature course (1979).
Pete Dye Challenge (1988; designed by Pete & Alice Dye).

Gary Player Signature Course

Lee Schmidt and Brian Curley (at the time with Landmark Golf Design).

Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Damian Pascuzzo and Jerry Pate

Dunes course: original design by Charles Blair Macdonald & Seth Raynor (1925); modifications by Rees Jones (1998), and Tom Fazio, Tim Jackson & David Khan (2015). Shore course: Robert (Bob) Baldock & Jack Neville (1961); redesigned by Mike Stranz (2004).

A Jack Nicklaus Signature Design.

A Peter Jacobsen Signature Course

Schmidt-Curley Design (Lee Schmidt & Brian Curley).

Schmidt-Curley Design (Lee Schmidt & Brian Curley).

Front-nine designed by Russell Noyes in 1934, and completed in 1951. The original nine, now the back-nine, was designed by Quintin Miller & E.W. Murphy (1923).

Schmidt-Curley Design (Lee Schmidt & Brian Curley).

Robin Nelson

Robert Muir Graves

Tom Fazio

Dr Gil Morgan, with Brian Curley (Schmidt-Curley Design).

Landmark Golf Design (lead designers Lee Schmidt & Brian Curley).

Palmer course: designed by Arnold Palmer & Ed Seay (1997).
Canyons course: front-nine designed by Ed Seay; back-nine designed by, and construction of all 18-holes by David Druzisky (2005).

Original design by George C. Thomas Jr and William Park "Billy" Bell (1923). Later modifications made by Jay Morrish (1988).

A Jack Nicklaus Signature Course

Lake course: originally designed by William "Willie" Watson and built by Sam Whiting (1924); subsequently redesigned by Sam Whiting in 1925/6 after severe winter storm damage. Later modifications by Robert Trent Jones (1953) and Bill Love (2016).
Ocean course: originally designed by Willie Watson (1924); substantially remodelled by Sam Whiting (1927); completely redesigned by Tom Weiskopf (2000), and renovated by Bill Love (2012).
Cliffs course: 9-hole par-3 course designed by Tom Weiskopf & Jay Morrish (1994).

Front-nine originally designed by Chandler Egan (1932). Back-nine designed by Jack Neville (original designer of the Pebble Beach Golf Links).

Jay Morrish

Pete Dye

Pete Dye

Pete Dye

Original design by William H. Johnson (1964); modifications by Dave Fleming & Bob Dobek (1984).

William Park "Billy" Bell with George C. Thomas Jr.

Original design by Dr Alister MacKenzie & Robert Hunter; modifications by Tom Doak (1998-2006).

Original design by Jack Neville & Douglas Grant (1919), with later improvements by Herbert Fowler (1920), H. Chandler Egan (1928), Jack Nicklaus (1998) and Arnold Palmer & Thad Layton (2007-16).

Arthur Hills & Steve Forrest

Tom Fazio

Tom Fazio

Pete Dye

Pete Dye

Husband & wife team of Pete & Alice Dye

Jack Nicklaus

Greg Norman

Original design by Robert Trent Jones Jr; renovated by RTJ Jr & Bruce Charlton (2013).

Rees Jones

Tom Fazio, J. Michael Poellot & Sandy Tatum

Originally designed Robert Wood Johnstone. Redesigned and lengthened by British course architect Herbert Fowler (1921).

Tom Fazio

Tom Fazio

Robert Muir Graves

Tom Fazio

Original design by William Francis "Billy" Bell Jr. (1962); modifications by Schmidt-Curley Design (Lee Schmidt & Brian Curley).

Robert Trent Jones Sr.

Pete Dye

Pete Dye

William Park "Billy" Bell and William H. Johnson.

Robert Trent Jones II (lead designer Bruce Charlton).

Casey O'Callaghan & Wade Cadle

Ronald (Ron) Fream

Hale Irwin & Stan Gentry

Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Jack Nicklaus

Billy Casper & Greg Nash

Billy Casper & Greg Nash

Father/son team of Ted Robinson & Ted Robinson Jr.

Rees Jones

Original design by Lawrence M. "Larry" Hughes (1947); redesigned by father/son team of Ted Robinson & Ted Robinson Jr (1998).

Original design by George C. Thomas Jr & William Park "Billy" Bell (1926). Later modifications by Ted Robinson (Sr); renovated by Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw (1993); further modifications by Tom Fazio (2012).

J. Michael (Mike) Poellet

Perry Dye

Gil Hanse (Hanse Golf Course Design)

Father/son team of Ted Robinson & Ted Robinson Jr designed the original 36-holes (Valley & Mountain courses); layout now comprises 27 holes.

William Francis "Billy" Bell Jr.

Albert W. Tillinghast

Fred Couples & Gene Bates

Johnny Miller & John Harbottle III

Tom Fazio in collaboration with owner Steve Wynn.

Gary Roger Baird

Nick Faldo's first design in the U.S., created with Brian Curley (Schmidt-Curley Design).

Jack Nicklaus

Schmidt-Curley Design (Lee Schmidt & Brian Curley).

Original design by Ben Harmon & John Dawson (1955); modifications by Robert Trent Jones Jr (1966) and Johnny Miller (2011).

Original design by Robert Trent Jones Jr (1966); modifications by Johnny Miller (2011).

Tom Duncan & Sid Salomon

An Arnold Palmer Classic Course.

Original design for all 54 holes at Singing Hills by William Park "Billy" Bell & Cecil Holingsworth (1953); redesign of Oak Glen and Willow Glen courses by Ted Robinson Sr (1967 & 1980); modifications to Oak Glen course by Dave Fleming (1991).

Original design for all 54 holes at Singing Hills by William Park "Billy" Bell & Cecil Holingsworth (1953); redesign of Oak Glen and Willow Glen courses by Ted Robinson Sr (1967 & 1980).

Sam Whiting

Robert Trent Jones Jr, with Tom Watson & Frank "Sandy" Tatum.

Designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr, who said of Spyglass Hill "the first six holes were inspired by Pine Valley, the rest by Augusta National." Course modifications made by Tom Fazio (1996).

Robert Trent Jones Jr.

Original design by George C. Thomas Jr and William Park "Billy" Bell (1930). Renovation by John Harbottle (2008).

Gary Player Signature Course

John Harbottle III and owner George Kelley.

Johnny Miller, Sandy Tatum, Jim Summers & Fred Bliss

Jim Lipe

William Francis "Billy" Bell Jr.

Father/son team of Ted Robinson & Ted Robinson Jr.

Fred Couples Signature Course, designed with Brian Curley (Schmidt-Curley Design).

Ted Robinson Sr and Dick Rossen.

Schmidt-Curley Design (Lee Schmidt & Brian Curley).

Schmidt-Curley Design (Lee Schmidt & Brian Curley).

Original design by owner and accomplished amateur golfer John Dawson and golf course acrhitect Larry Hughes (1951); renovation by Ted Robinson (1980).

Designed by William Park "Billy" Bell and finished by his son William Francis "Billy" Bell Jr.

Original design by William Park "Billy" Bell and finished by his son William Francis "Billy" Bell Jr; substantial modifications by Rees Jones (2001).

William "Willie" Watson & Sam Whiting (1925).

Bobby Weed & Raymond Floyd

Bobby Weed, with input from Fuzzy Zoeller.

Original design by Pete Dye (1999, as Ocean Trails Golf Club); remodelled by Jim Fazio (2006).

Ted Robinson (Sr).

Original design by Dr Alister MacKenzie & Robert Hunter (1929); modifications by Tom Doak (2018).

Greg Norman

Dick Bailey

Johnny Miller

Layout redesigned and updated in 2004 by Schmidt-Curley Design (Lee Schmidt & Brian Curley).

The last co-design by father/son team of Robert Trent Jones Sr and Robert Jr. With Robert Sr in his 90s at the time, it is assumed Robert Jr did most of the work!

Dennis Rider

John Fleming, Steve van Meter and Lou Eiguren

Current design by Tom Fazio and owner Steve Wynn (2005), on the site of an earlier Lawrence Hughes design (1952).

Brad Bell