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Course Profile
Trilogy Golf Club
Trilogy, a sprawling upscale daily-fee residential course that opened in February, 2003, is the first greater Palms Springs-area design of veteran Arizona architect Gary Panks. He conceived Trilogy as a goodhearted 6,883 yards that would never pinch a tee shot or block an approach to the green, but once the club landed the Silly Season's oldest event, Panks was brought back to beef it up with nine new back tees. It's now 7,150 yards, par 72, but still forgiving, as its roomy fairways are recessed into concave valleys that gently nudge offline shots back to center. Because most greens are wide open in the front, Annika should have no problem staying competitive with Mark O'Meara, Fred Couples and Phil Mickelson, even if she has to hit some longer clubs, maybe even a wood or two, on her approach shots.
In a press release, Panks said he tried to achieve a natural look, "by mirroring the existing contours of the property in the fairways and greens." The best mirrors at Trilogy are six irrigation lakes that reflect the dramatic Santa Rosa Mountains to the south and west. Four of those lakes appear on the closing three holes, but for the Skins Game the nines will be reversed to avoid the due-east 10th hole into the early morning sun on Sunday, when play starts early. That means the event will begin on the 10th, a drive-and-pitch par 4 that plays down a manmade canyon to a heavily-bunkered, tiny, perched green, followed by a short par-3 over a desert wash to another well-bunkered target, and then another drive-and-pitch par 4.
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