odonnell golf club: Golf History in the Desert... by the Numbers!
- 11/21/12 05:50 AM
GOLF HISTORY IN THE DESERT... BY THE NUMBERS!
1925: On the grounds of the El Mirador Hotel that he had built, Prescott Stevens builds a nine-hole golf course in Palm Springs
1932: Oilman Thomas O’Donnell opens his own nine-hole course in Palm Springs, just about the time Stevens is forced to abandon his El Mirador course because of the Great Depression. Several holes in the area that is now the La Quinta Resort are also open at this time.
1948: Aviatrix Jackie Cochran and her husband Floyd Oldham open a nine-hole golf course in Indio.
1951: Thunderbird Country Club, the first … (5 comments)
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GOLF HISTORY IN THE DESERT... BY THE NUMBERS!
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