Desert Horizons Country Club
Indian Wells, Riverside County, California · Indian Wells golf market
- Access
- mandatory
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Ted Robinson, Sr., Ted Robinson, Jr.
- Gated
- Yes
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Desert Horizons Country Club is a guard-gated private club community in Indian Wells, built around an 18-hole Ted Robinson, Sr./Ted Robinson, Jr. design (par 72, 6,637 yards) that hosted the Bob Hope Classic from 1983 to 1990. Unlike most Indian Wells private clubs, membership here is structured as a mandatory base Social Membership for every homeowner, with a separate, optional Golf Membership upgrade.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Every Desert Horizons home purchase requires the buyer to become a Social Member at closing -- this is mandatory, not optional, and is paid through monthly HOA-style dues rather than a one-time initiation fee. Social membership includes the clubhouse, dining, fitness center, and tennis, but only 'limited opportunities to play the course.' Full, unrestricted golf access requires a separate optional upgrade to Golf Membership ($25,000 initiation, ~$1,250/month dues). The club also offers a reduced-cost Associate Golf Membership for golfers 50 and under, and an Invitational Membership allowing non-resident locals annual access without an initiation fee.
Location & Surrounding Area
Located in Indian Wells, CA, within the Coachella Valley's Indian Wells private-club cluster alongside Indian Wells Country Club, The Vintage Club, Toscana Country Club, and The Reserve Club.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old fee a current one.
Golf membership initiation
Current$25,000
CONFIRMED, not the suspiciously-low guess it first appeared: $25,000 is the initiation fee for the OPTIONAL Golf Membership upgrade, not a base/mandatory fee. The mandatory Social Membership every homeowner must carry has no separate initiation fee of its own -- it is paid through monthly HOA-style dues (see annual_dues notes). Multiple independent sources (club's own membership page, a 2022 membership PDF, real-estate specialist pages) converge on the same $25,000 golf-upgrade figure, resolving the original suspicion.
Annual dues
Current$15,000
$1,250/month ($15,000/year) Golf Membership dues, for the optional golf tier, per the club's own membership page. Separately, ALL homeowners (golf or not) pay mandatory monthly Social/HOA dues covering clubhouse, dining, fitness, and 5 lighted tennis courts -- sources conflict on the current total for that base tier (one source: $925/month; another, possibly an older or differently-itemized figure: $1,933/month across three separate HOA line items). That base-tier figure is left unresolved here (conflicting) rather than guessed; the $15,000/year figure recorded is specifically the optional golf add-on dues, which is consistent across sources.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Reconcile the conflicting base Social/HOA monthly-dues figures found this pass ($925/month vs. $1,933/month across sources) directly with the club or HOA.
- Confirm current membership waitlist status for the optional Golf Membership tier.
Notable
- Hosted the Bob Hope Classic (now The American Express) from 1983 to 1990.
- 18-hole Ted Robinson design, par 72, 6,637 yards, water features on nine holes.
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