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PGA.com news services
12.01.2005
06:20 pm (ET)
PALM DESERT, Calif. -- Lowe Destination Development has completed the golf course at the Stone Eagle Club, an 18-hole, Tom Doak-designed layout in a mountaintop setting overlooking Palm Desert and the vast Coachella Valley. The golf course is the heart of a 700-acre community that will include 44 luxury residences. "Stone Eagle offers a golf course at a 1,000-foot elevation with no homes or other structures on or around the course. The unobstructed views and the course design that fits within the natural topography provide an unparalleled golf experience," said Rob Lowe, president, Lowe Destination Development. Stone Eagle is the first Tom Doak-designed course in California. Doak currently has three courses ranked in the top 50 of Golf Magazine's Top 100 courses in the world. Golfers take a scenic cart drive up a narrow canyon arriving at the spectacular mountaintop course. The course routing provides a challenging range of elements that incorporate the dramatic desert landscape and, in an unusual twist, Doak added a 19th hole. "When the course was being drawn, the raw space presented a tremendous par-3 hole, but it lay at what would be either the beginning or the end where a par 3 wasn't appropriate," said Ted Lennon, president of Lowe Destination Development's Desert subsidiary. "It was determined that it was such a great hole that we would build it anyway and let golfers play it to break a tie or for a warm-up. It's proving to be very popular." Lowe will begin offering the 44 home sites for sale in the first quarter of 2006. The homes will be nestled in the canyons and arroyos that provide each with a rustic desert landscape. The residences will range from 2,600 square feet to 3,800 square feet. Each home will incorporate indoor-outdoor living spaces and will be oriented to make the best use of the natural terrain. Copyright 2005 PGA.com. All rights reserved.
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