CONTENTS A PRIL M AY 2018 9 Publisher’s Notes 12 Mickey Thomas: From Cairo, Georgia, to the Coachella Valley What a trip it’s been 20 Warming up for Casals & Cooper 4th Annual Tennis Pro-Am Rosie Casals and her foundation hit the sweet spot for junior tennis 22 The 2018 Annalee Thurston Award Reception In memory of a beloved tennis community member, this year’s reception benefited Rosie Casals’ Love & Love Tennis Foundation 24 Tennis Great Tommy Haas Announces His Retirement from the ATP World Tour His professional playing days are over, but Haas will continue to impact the game of tennis 26 The Quarry—Distinctive On Every Level Ranked among America’s Greatest Golf Courses, The Quarry delivers a singular experience 28 A Look Back at California’s 2018 16 PGA Tour Swing THE 2018 BNP PARIBAS OPEN 30 Two unexpected champions GOLFER’S PLAYBOOK celebrated victories at one of Make a Splash for Greenside Bunker Success the game’s most popular tournaments Cover photo Mickey Thomas by Luigi Serra Photo by Luigi Serra Desert Golf &tennis • April MAy 2018 5 CONTENTS A PRIL M AY 2018 32 38 Bikram Yoga: The Power behind Escape the Heat in These 10 Cool Pools the Series Slides, beaches, waterfalls, lap lanes, Beyond the breath: The secret to cabanas, cocktails—what’s your favorite outdriving your golf partners and pool treat? winning your tennis matches 34 High-End Custom Home Building is Blooming in the Desert 42 SPRING FLING: Fresh and Fun Food Grows in the Desert From comfort food to sushi, New American to vegan, the Valley inspires diners 48 Ferrari 812 Superfast 70 years and better than ever 50 Fashion Trends for Spring & Summer 2018 Be on trend and accentuate your 48 own inimitable style 52 Floral Frenzy The power of flowers in our jewelry and sensibility 56 Tennis Resort Maps and Guides 64 Golf Resort Maps and Guides 42 Desert Golf &tennis • April MAy 2018 7 April MAy 2018 publisher’s notes By timothy J. pade • [email protected] The Coachella Valley is greatly blessed with suite at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, the restaurants, numerous choices. We have incredible arts programs, the Moet Champagne tent and throughout the venue amazing theatres, opera events and, of course, world- provided our advertisers and sponsors with excellent class golf and tennis, just to name a few. representation, and many of the more than 465,000 This past March, once again we had the world’s eyes attendees at this year’s event had the opportunity to see on our valley as the most elite tennis professionals in the and receive our publication. We appreciate our world arrived for the 2018 BNP Paribas Open, played relationship with the BNP Paribas Open and Indian over two weeks at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Wells Tennis Garden and look forward to next season. The tennis was amazing –and surprising. World No. 1 This tournament has generated millions of dollars for Simona Halep was defeated by 2018 champion Naomi the Coachella Valley, and many of our favorite Osaka of Japan in the semi-final, and Osaka cruised to restaurants provided fun and fare to all. Local favorite victory over Daria Kasatkina of Russia in Sunday’s final Wally’s Desert Turtle entered the event this year, joining match to win the $1.3 million purse. Roger Federer was big names such as Spago, Nobu and Piero’s Pizza Vino to stunned in a close finals match with Argentine Juan feed the masses. Martin del Potro in a battle that left crowd favorite Our congratulations go out to this year’s winners, Federer just short of his sixth BNP Paribas win. staff, volunteers, WTA, judges and ticket holders who With the BNP Paribas Open now behind us, we want saw some of the most incredible tennis anywhere! Please to thank Raymond Moore and his staff at the Indian see our post-tournament coverage beginning on pg. 16. Wells Tennis Garden for their support and We’re also proud to feature rock legend Mickey understanding of all that goes into our efforts of Thomas of Starship on our cover. Thomas and legend promoting and distributing this publication. Moore has Grace Slick had many Top 10 songs together such as “We been one of our biggest supporters and truly Built This City,” “Sara” and “Nothing’s Gonna To Stop Us understands the benefits of the marketing opportunity Now”, to name a few. A desert resident for many years, Desert Golf & Tennis provides. His inspiration and his Thomas hits the links in local celebrity events and is a dedication to the BNP Paribas Open and to Larry Ellison local celebrity who supports his community. See our have kept us working hard to be a part of this major feature on this colorful rocker starting on pg. 12. desert event. Our distribution of magazines to every Desert Golf &tennis • April MAy 2018 9 April MAy 2018 19th Annual Vol.XiX, no.iV Editor/Publisher: TIMOTHY J. 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Pade In Memoriam, Executive Vice President, Ellen Meyer Secretary, Sherwood Steele Legal Counsel, Michael Henson Follow us on facebook at: facebook.com/golfmagazines Search “Desert Golf” on facebook and become a fan for updates Desert Golf & Tennis is a division of Pade Publishing, L.L.C. and golf promos Follow us on twitter at: S ASS’N R O E F T twitter.com/desertgolfguy I A R M E W R F I L C O A G National Photography Award 1st Place International Network of Golf Awards 2004, 2005 & 2008 on Cover including a musical career that has taken him from Georgia to San Francisco to Lake Tahoe and eventually to Palm Desert, largely based on two “bolt out of the blue” telephone calls. When it came time for college, Thomas left Cairo to attend Valdosta State University in Georgia, where he helped form a college band with a number of likeminded musicians. He admits it was all mostly for fun and “to get girls to notice you.” Eventually, he began to think it was time to leave behind the fun and games of fiddling around in a band and to settle down and get serious about his college education in order to properly prepare for a real job in the real world. But his world changed one day in 1971. “I got a call, it was a bolt out of the blue, really, from this guy named Gideon Daniels, who was a gospel singer originally from Philadelphia and based in San Francisco,” Thomas says. “His musical concept at that point in time was basically pure gospel music, but with contemporary lyrics. And his band was kind of multiracial, multicultural and he really wanted it that way. He had a Japanese guy, an Italian guy, an African American guy, a Filipino.He got it in his head that he needed a white male southern tenor to By Matt McKay • Photos by Luigi Serra complete this puzzle. So he came down south looking for a singer. “He met some people at a restaurant that knew about me, and they struck up a conversation. He told them what he was looking for, and they said, ‘Hey we know this one guy, Mickey Thomas, he sings pretty high! He may be available.’ So they s a successful musician and singer, The next week they started their first gave him my number, he called me up, we Mickey Thomas could live just band. “We really didn’t know what the hell had a little meeting and a week later I was in Aabout anywhere he wants. we were doing. One of my buddies was a California.” But he fooled around and fell in love drummer in the high school marching Under Daniels’ tutelage, Thomas with the Coachella Valley. band, so naturally we figured he was going learned to really sing for the first time, Now 68 years old, Thomas has been on to play the drums so we at least had one real rather than simply being an imitator of your radio since 1976 when he sang musician. And one of my other best whatever song he was duplicating.