John Woolf’s villas at the Marrakesh Country Club step down the fairway, with the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains in the distance. We’re talking about Palm Desert, California, and Woolf ...

When I put these observations to Craig Kessler, director of governmental affairs for the Southern California Golf ... of operations at Palm Desert’s Lakes Country Club, told me he has a weather ...

From La Quinta to Palm Springs, the area’s gated communities ... The couple said filling more artificial lakes in the desert simply doesn’t make sense, especially with the Colorado River ...

Editor's Note: Ladera Golf Club ... Palm Springs—a land of walled-off Edens and enclaves of ornately manicured courses—was already a radical idea. Hanse and Wagner stepped outside the desert ...