DesertApril-May14_colo_may_june 06 3/13/14 12:13 PM Page 1 April May 2014 Departments Contents Tiger Woods at Diamante Cabo San Lucas ON PAR PLAY WORTHY PUBLISHER’S NOTES COPALA AT QUIVIRA LOS CABOS .......................................................8 Privacy, sophistication and service are central to this elegant community ........................................30 ON COVER BNP PARIBAS OPEN ......................................................40 DIAMANTE CABO SAN LUCAS The world’s first Tiger Woods golf course .................12 THE HISTORIC PALM SPRINGS TENNIS CLUB It remains as lovely and inviting as it was PRO’S VIEW in 1939 ...........................................................................42 THE ART OF TOURNAMENT PLAYERS ACE THE TEST Clive Clark plays with two of the best .....................18 Top tennis schools, camps and clinics across the Southwest ..............................................................46 GAME PLAY ALICE COOPER’S 2014 ROCK & ROLL GOLF INSTRUCTION GOLF CLASSIC REFERENCING YOUR CLUB’S SWING PATHS The shock rocker brings his special brand of Being aware of the correct swing paths will golf and entertainment to support a cause .........20 help you hit a better shot ........................................34 2014 FRED BILETNIKOFF HALL OF FAME GOLF CLASSIC INVITATIONAL SPOTLIGHT Former NFL wide receiver Fred Biletnikoff will IT’S A CLOWN’S LIFE host his 10th annual golf invitational ......................38 Sometimes entertaining means saying nothing at all ................................................................36 PLAY WORTHY MAKE THE JOURNEY MAPS, DIRECTORIES AND PRIVATE CLUBS Pechanga Resort Casino is a destination that easily delivers exactly the experience TENNIS CLUBS ...........................................................72 you want .......................................................................22 GOLF CLUBS ............................................................80 TEE OFF AT THE “GOLF CAPITAL OF MEXICO” Championship golf—including Tiger Woods’ new course ...................................................................26 Cover: Tiger Woods at Diamante Cabo San Lucas Desert Golf &tennis • April MAy 2014 5 April May 2014 Lifestyle Contents The McLaren P 1 DESERT GOLF & TENNIS REALTY LUXURY AUTOS SOLD OUT: THE MCLAREN P1 You can’t get a 2014 model, but 2015 is only THE GOOD LIFE a few months away ....................................................64 LIVING COURTSIDE Tennis estates and access to exclusive tennis STYLE REPORT courts are not just for the Hollywood elite ..............50 BE A SPORT AND LIVE BEAUTIFULLY Our fashion expert suggests these must-haves DESERT GOLF & TENNIS LIFESTYLE for all year-round .........................................................68 LUXURY TRAVEL FINE JEWELRY ESPERANZA, AN AUBERGE RESORT WHO’S WEARING YOUR FAVORITE LUXURY WATCH? This is the good life in every sense and Sports icons and celebrities help brand 70 every way .....................................................................54 high-end timepieces .................................................. FINE DINING DINING IN THE DESERT The Desert Golf & Tennis guide to eating out in the Coachella Valley ..............................................58 Desert Golf &tennis • April MAy 2014 7 April May 2014 publisher’s notes By timothy J. pade • [email protected] We are extremely proud to feature the destination of Los Also in this issue, we cover Alice Cooper’s 2014 Rock & Roll Cabos in this issue, and especially three amazing properties within Golf Classic, where rockers and others join in to raise funds for it. Diamante Cabo San Lucas, Copala at Quivira Los Cabos, and Cooper’s Solid Rock Foundation. Solid Rock, based in Arizona, is Esperanza, an Auberge Resort, offer three distinct opportunities to dedicated to making an everlasting difference in the lives of teens in visitors from the United States, not the least of which is the chance the community. Learn more starting on pg. 20. to live in one of the great golf destinations in the world. Cabo San As always, we strive to find unique lifestyle items for our Lucas is, of course, that. But it also offers fishing, boating, beaches readers, and this issue will make you sit up and take notice with our and a rich culture. New roads, water treatment plants and new review of one of the most rare cars in the world. The McLaren P1 is developments are springing up almost daily, and with them come unlike any other automobile, expensive and not a vehicle for the even more golf courses—most notably, the new Diamante course faint of heart. With a price tag of more than $1 million, this is a designed by Tiger Woods himself. This is the first completed Tiger collector’s gem. See our coverage on page 64. And you will find our Woods design in the world, and it promises to be a great test for any other lifestyle features, including must-have fashions and game. Please see our feature on it starting on pg. 12, and our distinctive jewelry, starting on pg. 68. additional Cabo features on pages 26, 30 and 52. We are blessed to work in such an amazing region of the United Another year of the BNP Paribas Open is over. The tournament States, with some of the best weather in the world. While other once again saw record crowds of more than 431,527 fans! This areas enjoy this weather only in summer, we have it year-round, event is the largest ATP World Tour and WTA combined event, and that is why we are able to enjoy a healthy, active lifestyle that and fans saw an amazing finish with World No. 21 Flavia Pennetta includes tennis, golf and access to an array of fine companies that we defeating World No. 3 Agnieszka Radwanska 6-2, 6-1 in the final are honored to promote and support. We thank our readers and women’s match. Novak Djokovic captured his third BNP Paribas the great businesses that continue to support Desert Golf & title, overcoming four-time BNP Paribas champion Roger Federer, Tennis . We hope you enjoy this edition and the great writing and 3-6, 6-3, 7-6. photography that we provide. This tournament and continued growth of tennis in the Meanwhile, spring is here, so get out and play some golf and Coachella Valley and beyond was our inspiration to change our tennis! title to Desert Golf & Tennis . But tennis has long been part of the history and culture of our area, which is why we feature the historic Palm Springs Tennis Club in this issue. This incredible property offers 11 tennis courts, the superb Spencer’s on the Mountain restaurant, a fitness center, a hotel and an enduring sense of valley history. Read about it starting on pg. 42. Desert Golf &tennis • April MAy 2014 9 Aprily May 2014 18th Annual Vol.XViV, no.iV Editor/Publisher: TIMOTHY J. PADE Marketing/Promotion: TIMOTHY J. PADE Deputy Articles Editor: CHRISTINE LOOMIS P.O. 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Follow us on twitter at: S ASS’N R O E F T twitter.com/desertgolfguy I A R M W E R F I L C O A G National Photography Award 1st Place International Network of Golf Awards 2004, 2005 & 2008 10 Desert Golf &tennis • April MAy 2014 By Christine Loomis on Cover t’s been a long time coming. Finally, however, the world is going to be able to check out the design prowess of Tiger Woods when his first completed golf course Iopens at Diamante, a very private development in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, later this year. While Woods’ previous course-design projects were stalled by the challenging economy of the past few years, El Cardonal is on track to be the first of five courses from Tiger Woods Design to come to fruition. Woods has taken a very, very hands-on approach with El Cardonal, visiting Diamante at least a half-dozen times. Reports are that he loves the place so much he now has a home there. According to those familiar with Woods’ design philosophy, the emphasis of this course is on strategy, options and playability across the board. In other words, there will be several options available to navigate each hole, and players of different abilities will have to make similar strategic decisions, regardless of which of the multiple tees they are playing from. “I set up the golf strategy to make golfers think and make choices,” Woods says of his design. “Regardless of your handicap, there are going to be different ways to play every hole.