Avondale began as Del Safari Golf Club in 1969, a tree-lined Palm Desert eighteen built to Midwestern taste: shade, water, bunkers, and a membership that expected to find a game. In 1991 the members bought the club and changed the name. Jimmy Hines, a tour professional with a story about chipping into the cup on top of Sam Snead's ball in 1938, is the architect of record. Golf Digest and GolfPass list the private course at 6,782 yards, par 72, slope 131, Bermuda grass on fairways and greens. In 2025 Sierra Golf Management acquired Avondale as its first owned private club. The residential streets inside the gates are still a mixed, established Palm Desert neighborhood, not a new Discovery compound.
Hines gave Avondale a traditional parkland routing rather than a desert waste-area look. Mature trees, water hazards, and bunkers reward accuracy across skill levels. Older club copy bragged that games average under four hours and that you can always find a game, seven days a week. Confirm current scorecard details with the Golf Shop at 760.345.3712 when a specific comparison matters. Practice facilities and instruction are part of the private-club package. The point is playability and condition, not a famous restoration architect on a billboard.
Avondale has long described itself as a Non-Equity Private Club focused on golf, friendship, and a smaller social culture rather than a high-barrier equity model. Membership materials list tennis, pickleball, dining, fitness, and family programming beside the golf. The club periodically offers preview-style introductions for prospective members. Initiation and dues belong in the current brochure, not in third-party summaries. Contact Membership at the published club office, 760.345.2727, before you assume golf access is automatic with a home purchase. Sierra's 2025 acquisition is a golf-club ownership change. It does not rewrite every HOA document on Avondale Drive. Read the association file for the house, and the membership file for the club.
Residential architecture inside Avondale is varied, and member stories treat that mix as part of the appeal. Public pages do not publish a floor-plan library or a fixed residence count. Treat MLS inventory and HOA documents as the source of truth for home size, remodel rules, and carrying costs. Semi-custom and custom work sit on the same streets. This is not a seven-collection Sunrise grid. It is an older club community where the house you buy may be original, remodeled, or rebuilt, and the golf is the constant.
The club lists 75800 Avondale Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92211, in central Palm Desert near Indian Wells Tennis Garden, El Paseo, and the mid-valley grid. That location is why Avondale works as a full-time or seasonal address compared with more remote cove clubs. When you compare Avondale to Indian Ridge or Toscana, you are comparing an older non-equity golf culture to Sunrise master plans with Palmer or Nicklaus on the cover. Different carrying costs, different architecture, different idea of what a club is for. Norman Williams and Jacqulyn Stanton of The Stanton Williams Group at Compass work with buyers and sellers at Avondale Golf Club. Reach Norman at 760.464.2190 or Jacqulyn at 760.702.2557.
