SilverRock Resort
SilverRock Golf Resort is a public golf destination owned by the City of La Quinta and set against the Santa Rosa Mountains. Its Arnold Palmer Classic Course combines a dramatic desert setting with championship-scale golf, native bunkering, water features, and expansive mountain views.
Although the property carries the SilverRock Resort name, the public golf course is the primary completed attraction today. The surrounding hotel and residential development remains unfinished and is moving through a separate redesign and approval process.
SilverRock at a Glance
- Course: Arnold Palmer Classic Course
- Access: Public golf course
- Owner: City of La Quinta
- Operator: Landmark Golf Management
- Length: 7,239 yards from the back tees
- Opened: February 14, 2005
- Address: 79-179 Ahmanson Lane, La Quinta, CA 92253
- Golf shop: 760-777-8884
Playing SilverRock
SilverRock occupies more than 200 acres near the base of the Santa Rosa Mountains. The course feels open and substantial, with long views, large native bunkers, desert washes, water hazards, and holes that move close to the surrounding rock formations.
The 7,239-yard back-tee layout provides a serious championship test, but multiple tee choices make the course approachable for a wider range of golfers. Selecting the appropriate yardage is especially important because desert wind, long approaches, bunkering, and water can make SilverRock play more difficult than the scorecard suggests.
SilverRock is open to the public. Tee times and current rates are available through the official SilverRock Resort website. Seasonal turf renovation, aerification, and overseeding can affect course availability, so current conditions should be checked before booking.
Bob Hope Classic History
SilverRock served as a home course of the Bob Hope Classic in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Its time in the Coachella Valley’s PGA Tour rotation remains an important part of the course’s identity and helps explain the scale and difficulty of the Arnold Palmer layout.
Clubhouse and Amenities
The historic Ahmanson Ranch House has served as SilverRock’s temporary golf clubhouse since the course opened. The property currently includes the golf shop, SilverRock Grill, driving range, golf instruction, and tournament services.
A permanent public clubhouse of approximately 16,000 to 17,000 square feet is included in the approved SilverRock development framework. The clubhouse is proposed rather than under construction, and its final design remains subject to detailed plans and permits.
SilverRock Development Context
The public golf course and the surrounding private development parcel are separate assets. The City of La Quinta continues to own the Arnold Palmer Classic Course. Turnbridge acquired the approximately 130-acre private hotel and residential development parcel through bankruptcy proceedings in December 2025.
The approved 2025 framework proposes one hotel with up to 154 rooms and a total residential schedule of 29 + 70 + 93 + 253 = 445 residences.
- Planning Area 2: 29 residences
- Planning Area 6: 70 residences
- Planning Area 7: 93 residences
- Planning Area 8: 253 conditional future residences
Planning Area 8 is a conditional future phase on City-owned option land. Its proposed 253 residences, approximately 40,000 square feet of commercial space, residential amenities, and private 18-hole golf course are not part of Turnbridge’s current development parcel. Additional land transactions, agreements, maps, permits, and approvals would be required before that phase could proceed.
The unfinished Talus structures should not be described as scheduled for blanket demolition. Structural testing reported by the City in 2026 found significant structural integrity and supports reuse where feasible. A final building-by-building plan identifying what will be retained, redesigned, or removed has not been published.
The approved master framework establishes what may eventually be developed, but it does not mean every component is financed, permitted for construction, or scheduled to open. Detailed resort development activity, ownership changes, permits, and construction milestones are covered separately in the SilverRock Development Tracker.
