Custom La Quinta Country Club artwork, made to order — a hand-styled map of the course, a painting-style print of your favorite hole, or a finished photo from your round.
Created from actual data — every tee, fairway, bunker, and green, all in vivid detail.
La Quinta Country Club opened in 1959 on the desert floor beneath the Santa Rosa Mountains, a Lawrence M. Hughes design that arrived just as the Coachella Valley was becoming the winter address of American entertainment. The inaugural round was played by Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. The following year President Dwight D. Eisenhower came to dedicate the club.
That first week set the tone for everything after. Andy Williams, Clint Eastwood and Frank Capra took memberships; Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Jackie Gleason turned up to play. The desert boom that followed built dozens of courses around La Quinta, but this was one of the first, and it kept the walled, green, deliberately unmodern feel of the era that made it.
Its tournament identity came from the same circle. The Palm Springs Golf Classic began in 1960, took Bob Hope's name in 1965, and became the marathon pro-am that defined desert golf for half a century; La Quinta has been part of its host rotation across more than sixty years, through the Bob Hope Classic and into the event's present life as The American Express.
The course itself has aged into the thing the valley now has least of: an old, tree-lined, walkable par 72 that does not need 7,600 yards to be interesting. The mountains stand directly behind the closing holes, and the ground under your feet has been played by most of the people who made this place famous.
Museum-quality La Quinta Country Club map art, traced from real course data — Lawrence M. Hughes's 1959 desert design, opened by Crosby and Hope and dedicated by Eisenhower. Four designs, six sizes, or personalized with your own round photo.
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