LA QUINTA, Calif. — There is still work to do to make the greens at Trilogy Golf Club at La Quinta playable again, but the resurrection of the course is already amazing, one member said.
“Compared to what they were, which was dead, they look amazingly good,” said Mark Reider, president of the Trilogy at La Quinta Maintenance Association board of directors. “As a golfer, they still have a long way to go, compacting them and mowing them. But the coverage is really pretty good.”
Unwatered and unmaintained for close to two years, the result of a nasty squabble between three owners, loan defaults and an eventual Chapter 7 involuntary bankruptcy, Trilogy Golf Club, under a variety of names, seemed like a lost cause. Cracked putting surfaces, overgrown rough and landscaping, overgrown bunkers and gray fairways made a comeback for the former home of The Skins Game a longshot.
The clubhouse at Trilogy Golf Club at La Quinta in California. (Andy Abeyta/The Desert Sun)
But with the Trilogy homeowner’s association buying the property out of bankruptcy and taking over the layout in February, the course is coming back to life with the idea of being ready for membership and outside play for the upcoming season.
“That’s our goal. We are shooting for mid-November,” Reider said. “We are going to see how it goes with everything coming together at the same time.”
“I think it is possible,” said Matt Anzalone, vice president of golf and club operations for BlueStar Resort and Golf, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based firm that will manage Trilogy and is part of the restoration process. “We have to overseed by mid-October. We can’t go any later than that. One of the biggest projects is again just growing the grass back. So yeah, I think it is realistic.”
When Trilogy shut down in September of 2022, it had a history of hosting four Skins Games including appearances by Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples, Annika Sorenstam and a moment when Fred Funk donned a dress after being outdriven by Sorenstam. But it also had two different name changes and then more than a year of not being maintained or watered until the HOA brought the 229-acre property for $6.17 million and took over in February this year.
Crews work to clean up debris on the 10th hole as a part of the revitalization of Trilogy Golf Club at La Quinta in California. (Andy Abeyta/The Desert Sun)
Attention for the HOA and BlueStar then turned to the golf course, specifically the greens and…
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