The O'Donnell Golf Club occupies a patch of desert tucked against the jagged base of the San Jacinto Mountains. It is a private, nine-hole course that feels like a green scar carved into the rugged canyon floor. Thomas O'Donnell, a wealthy oil man from Colorado, laid this out in nineteen twenty-five. He wanted a place to play without the desert dust of public links. He even imported bent grass seed, kept it alive with a private well, and refused to open it to the public.
The O'Donnell Golf Club
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