The Lakes Country Club (Mountain/Lake)

Overview: The Mountain/Lake routing is one of the 18-hole combinations at The Lakes Country Club, a private 27-hole community course in Palm Desert. The club describes the full facility through its three nines, mature shade trees, palms, water features and Scottish-style bunkers, while the Mountain/Lake name identifies the exact two-nine routing represented by this directory record. It is a desert course with a landscaped, park-like character and access shaped by club membership and guest rules rather than open daily-fee play.

History: The property began as Bill Bone’s early-1980s vision for a residential oasis built around golf and water. The official history says construction started in 1982 with 18 holes and that the community took possession of the golf course and related assets in 1986. In 1987, owners engaged Ted Robinson to add another nine holes. That sequence explains why today’s course should be understood as a rotating three-nine-hole facility, with Mountain/Lake one of several current combinations.

Did You Know? The club’s scorecard system treats the facility as three separate nines, so an 18-hole day is assembled from two of them. Public scorecard sources use different naming conventions for the nines, which is why this profile keeps the directory’s Mountain/Lake label and does not insert a guessed combination-specific yardage. The club also has an 18-hole putting course separate from the playing nines.