Madison Club

Overview: In La Quinta, Tom Fazio's Madison Club course occupies the stark desert setting of the Coachella Valley. The course is listed at par 72 and about 7,517 yards from its back tees, with wide landing areas, sculpted contours, and carefully placed water and sand creating contrast against the surrounding desert.

History: The course was developed in the late 2000s, with sources placing its opening around 2007 or 2008. Tom Fazio shaped the layout from a largely barren desert site, creating a finished course whose planted corridors and earth forms are inseparable from the original desert ground.

Did You Know? The Madison Club's architecture is defined by contrast. The fairways and greens are heavily modeled and irrigated, but the visual edge of the property remains the raw desert, making the boundary between cultivated golf and natural ground part of every hole.