Mountain Vista Golf Club

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We look forward to welcoming you to Mountain Vista Golf Club. We are excited to provide you with a great experience and ensure your visit is smooth and enjoyable, from arrival to the 19th hole! We can’t wait to share this “gem of the desert” with you!

As we are a golf facility operating within the gorgeous Sun City Palm Desert community, we have a few aspects that may be different from other golf courses you’ve experienced.  Below are some helpful details for you.   

Entering the Community

Sun City Palm Desert is a guard-gated community. Guests enter SCPD through the Main Gate located at Washington Street & Del Webb Boulevard nearest Interstate-10 and Varner Road.

At times, there may be a back-up of guests and vendors waiting to gain access to our community.  While we make every effort to clear these back-ups quickly, they can add time to your arrival at the course. Please plan accordingly.

Please note guest golfers may also enter through our North Gate, which is located approximately two miles further north on Washington Street and also intersects Dell Webb Blvd (which loops through SCPD, south to north). You will typically find no line at the North Gate.

When you arrive:

  1. Proceed to the far-left lane staffed by our gate attendants.
  2. Inform the attendant that you have a golf tee time.
  3. The gate attendant may request your ID (e.g., driver’s license)
  4. The attendant will then provide access.  Proceed to your course.
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Two Courses, Different Locations, Different Facilities

MVGC features two golf courses at different locations within the SCPD community.  As well, each course has different facilities.  

Santa Rosa Course

Address: 38180 Del Webb Blvd, Palm Desert, CA 92211

Located near the SCPD Mountain View Clubhouse, upon entering the driveway, proceed all the way to the end where the bag drop and Pro Shop are located. Facilities at this location include:

  • Driving Range
  • Chipping Area
  • Putting Area
  • Cali Cafe (next to Pro Shop)
  • Daily Grind/Martinis (in Mountain View Clubhouse)
  • Restrooms at holes 4, 9, and 13

San Gorgonio Course

Address: 36890 Del Webb Blvd, Palm Desert, CA 92211

Located near the SCPD Sunset View Clubhouse, upon entering the driveway, the bag drop is immediately to your right.  The Pro Shop is behind the bag drop in the building nearest Dell Webb Blvd.  Facilities at this location include:

  • Putting Area
  • Boulevards Restaurant (in Sunset View Clubhouse)
  • Note: There is no driving range or chipping area at this course
  • Restrooms at holes 6, 9, and 14

Beverage Cart Service & Personal Coolers

A beverage cart is available in-season (NOV thru MAY) Friday-Sunday to provide convenient snacks and drink service throughout your round.  The beverage cart is NOT available off-season (JUN through OCT) or Monday through Thursday.

Due to the limited availability of the Beverage Cart, our guests are highly encouraged to bring their own coolers with non-alcoholic beverages and snacks.  Each Pro Shop has ice machines for your convenience, and each MVGC golf cart also has a cooler.

Seasons, Tee Times, and Shotguns

We have two golf seasons, with In-Season/Winter defined as NOV-MAY, and Off-Season/Summer as JUN-OCT with our rates adjusted accordingly.  In-season, we aim to keep the courses pristine.  Off-season, while we continue to maintain to the highest standards, with the desert heat, and water use regulations, there will be areas of heat stress that are typical for all desert courses.

As a guest, you may book weekend rounds up to 15 days in advance.  For weekday rounds, you may book up to 6 days in advance.  Weekdays prioritize our Resident Mens’, Womens’ and Niners’ golf clubs for morning rounds, hence the difference in booking windows.  Nonetheless, you will find many tee time opportunities on weekdays.

On Mondays and Fridays, we use a shotgun format on one course, and an open format on the other course (alternating).  If one course is closed for maintenance (or an event), we use the shotgun format on the open course.  This is to maximize playing slots during cooler hours.  When booking a tee time for a particular course on Monday or Friday, if you see only one tee-time in the morning (typically 7:30 or 8:00am), and multiple tee times in the afternoon, then the early round is a shotgun format.  When you arrive at the Pro Shop to check-in for a shotgun, you will be advised which hole you will be starting on.  Please allow an extra 10 minutes in your planning to get you out to your starting hole.

Dress Code

Acceptable attire includes all attire acceptable by the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour and PGA of America Professionals in tournament play. For Men, this includes slacks, shorts, shirts with collars, mock collars or crew neck with sleeves; For Women, slacks, dresses/skirts or shorts (minimum mid-length), blouses (sleeveless with collars or collarless with/sleeves). Shoes must be spike-less golf shoes, spike-less golf sandals or tennis shoes. 

Unacceptable Attire includes sweatpants, denim/gym/cut-offs/short-shorts, T-shirts, halter tops or tank tops, any garment with offensive language or symbols, bathing attire, spiked golf shoes, casual sandals or flip flops. 

We respectfully ask that you adhere to this policy while using the practice facilities as well. 

Rules, Etiquette & Pace of Play

To help ensure a safe and enjoyable experience for all our golfers, please adhere to these simple rules & guidelines:

  • No loud music.  We welcome you to enjoy your music during your round.  We only ask that you consider both other golfers, and our residents’ homes around the course when selecting your volume level.
  • No disruptive, damaging, offensive or threatening behavior.
  • Please fix your ball marks and fill your divots.  All carts have sand bottles for divots.
  • Follow all staff instructions and posted signage.
  • We think pace-of-play is very important to the enjoyment of your round.  We target 4:00-4:15 hours for pace-of-play for a foursome, and faster for smaller groups.  In later hours, particularly when it’s hotter, the pace is often much faster.  Please keep up with the group in front of you.  If our course marshall determines that your group is behind pace, you will be asked to speed up.  If, on a second marshall review, your group is more than a hole behind, you may be asked to skip a hole if you are holding-up play behind you.  As a courtesy, if you know that your group is not keeping up with the group ahead, please encourage the group behind your group to play through.

“Project Zoysia”

Sun City Palm Desert and our Mountain Vista Golf Club are stewards of our environment. With the prevailing drought conditions and potential future water restrictions, we have undertaken an extensive project to assess the viability of alternate grass species that may help us reduce our water consumption, eliminate overseeding, and reduce the use of chemical pesticides.  Of course, a change like this is significant in terms of both cost and duration.  Likewise, we want to ensure that we maintain the beauty and playability of our courses before executing such a major change.  As such, we are conducting experiments with Zoysia grass in several test plots in the community.  One such test area is the 6th hole on the San Gorgonio Course, where all but the green has been converted to Zoysia.  When you play San Gorgonio, we’d love your feedback on the 6th hole Zoysia.  

Note that the 6th hole is currently closed as the Zoysia settles in; this hole will re-open on September 28th, 2026.