April May 2013 Contents Departments Bighorn Golf Club, Canyons Course Hole 11 ON PAR HOT GEAR PUBLISHER’S NOTES GOTTA HAVE GADGET .......................................................8 The latest on golf gear and other products you simply must have ..............................................28 ON COVER CARSON DALY IN HIS OWN VOICE INSTRUCTION The successful TV personality is a GOLF’S COMMON THREADS low-handicapper with roots in the desert ...........12 To increase power and control distance, you must work from the ground up ...............................30 PLAY WORTHY IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD—REALLY BIGHORN GOLF CLUB One key to improving your golf is improving Those searching for that legendary desert self-confidence and self-efficacy ........................32 lifestyle need look no further .................................16 SPOTLIGHT MAPS, DIRECTORIES AND PRIVATE CLUBS SAYING GOOD-BYE TO ERNIE VOSSLER One of the Coachella Valley’s greats is gone COACHELLA VALLEY .................................................54 but definitely not forgotten ....................................20 ARIZONA ..................................................................60 PHOENIX ...................................................................64 GAME PLAY TUCSON ....................................................................70 ALICE COOPER’S 2013 ROCK AND ROLL LAS VEGAS ................................................................72 GOLF CLASSIC The 16th annual Golf Classic will raise money for The Rock at 32nd Street Teen Center, a safe haven for Phoenix teenagers. ......................24 Cover: Carson Daly, Photo by Dane Andrew 4 Desert Golf MAGAzine • April MAy 2013 April May 2013 Contents Lifestyle 2014 Corvette Stingray DESERT GOLF REALTY LUXURY AUTOS A BIG FISH THE GOOD LIFE Corvette unveils Stingray, the first new SHOW ME THE MONEY Vette since 1996 ......................................................46 Start the home-loan process before you head out to buy in today’s strengthening market ........33 STYLE REPORT GOLF WEAR MELDS FASHION AND FUNCTION DESERT GOLF LIFESTYLES New colors, new styles, new technology .............50 FINE DINING FINE JEWELRY DINING IN THE DESERT ALL EYES ON EARS The Desert Golf Magazine guide to eating Make an entrance, make a statement out in the Coachella Valley ...................................40 with head-turning earrings ....................................52 6 Desert Golf MAGAzine • April MAy 2013 April May 2013 publisher’s notes By timothy J. pade • [email protected] This issue we are proud to feature one of the desert’s own. month is Solid Rock Foundation’s Alice Cooper Rock and Roll Although he grew up in southern California, Carson Daly has Golf Classic. Alice Cooper and his wife, Cheryl, continue to raise deep roots in the Coachella Valley. He has family here, and his hundreds of thousands of dollars for their projects aiding at-risk mother, Patty Daly Caruso, is a celebrity in the Palm Springs teens in the Phoenix area, including The Rock at 32nd Street marketplace in her own right, having hosted her own television Teen Center, which opened in the spring of 2012. Find out how talk show for more than 15 years. Daly is also an excellent golfer. to play in this fun and worthy event on pg. 24. He was once junior player of the year at Riviera Golf Club in Los I would like to take a moment to thank everyone for their Angeles where his stepfather worked, and he later won a golf support of the ChildHelp Celebrity Invitational this year, hosted scholarship to Loyola Marymount. Daly is currently host of by Cheryl Ladd and John O’Hurley. As tournament director, I was NBC’s enormously successful show The Voice , and he can often extremely proud to work with Judy Jensen and the Indian Wells be found on the celebrity golf circuit. He recently took time out Chapter team to help with the fundraising and corporate image of of his busy schedule to talk with Desert Golf Magazine , and you this amazing organization. I look forward to another year of this can read all about it in our cover story starting on pg. 12. event that has already contributed more than $800,000 to a We also hear from our resident golf course architect Clive worthy organization. Our gala featured singer LeAnn Rimes, and Clarke, esteemed designer of Eagle Falls at Fantasy Springs, The after her performance this year, I will forever be a fan. Classic Course at Indian Wells Resort and The Clive Clarke Course Please support these charities. The ChildHelp, Barbara at The Hideaway. In this issue, he takes a look at one of the desert’s Sinatra Children’s Center and Patrick Warburton St. Jude events most admired private communities, Bighorn Golf Club. Developer do amazing work for women and children in need; with funds R.D. Hubbard’s playground features two championship layouts, hard to come by in today’s challenging times, these charity golf one by Tom Fazio and the other by Arthur Hills. Clarke profiles events are a major source of income that keep these critical both courses as well as the facilities, starting on pg. 16 . programs and services running. Desert Golf Magazine is a longtime supporter of charity golf As things warm up in the coming months, keep in mind that events in the desert region, bringing them to the attention of our golf-course conditions are simply better than anywhere else in readers whom we hope will be inspired to participate and/or the nation. Get out and play and enjoy the remainder of the season. contribute to the many worthy causes. 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He is happy with all of the changes made to the relocated with her family to the desert to live tournament and with the focus on health and wellness. “It was an full-time. I can easily see myself doing that also,” he adds, surely to the delight of his parents, Pattie Daly Caruso and Richard Caruso, longtime Coachella Valley residents. If the name Carson Daly is only vaguely familiar, you aren’t in sync with of-the-moment TV. Daly is the former host of MTV’s Total Request Live and current host of the wildly successful televised singing competition The Voice . As ecstatic and amazed as Daly is with the success of The Voice , it’s his long-running late- night show, Last Call with Carson Daly , that’s his baby. The show, which premiered in 2002 and airs weeknights at 1:30 a.m., turned Daly into one of the longest tenured hosts in late-night television. A California native, Daly grew up in Santa Monica. Grateful that his stepfather, Richard, introduced him to the game of golf as a young boy, Daly was truly bit by the golf bug in high school, where he became a star player on the Santa Monica High School golf team. After graduating in 1991, Daly continued to hone his game in the Coachella Valley, after moving here to attend College of the Desert. In fact, there was a time when he had aspirations of becoming a Tour player. Daly with Mother Pattie Daly Caruso and Richard Caruso “I tried to qualify for the U.S. Open at Ironwood when I was out here and playing well. I had a disastrous hole, and I think that was the turning point for me.