Rancho Las Palmas Country Club shares a campus with Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in the middle of Rancho Mirage. Ted Robinson's golf opened in 1977 as the centerpiece of a roughly 240-acre resort that had already been drawing visitors to this stretch of Bob Hope Drive since the dude-ranch years. Bill Bone's Sunrise Company is part of the residential story around the property, the same Bone who had just finished Sunrise Country Club down the road and would keep building Monterey, Palm Valley, and The Lakes. What you buy here is not a sealed private equity club. It is resort-adjacent housing next to a Robinson course that still takes hotel play, with membership sold as a parallel path rather than a deed right.
Robinson laid out 27 holes as North, South, and West nines, plus a 6-hole express course that the club markets for a shorter loop. The nines combine into different 18-hole routes. Fairways are wide, palms line the corridors, and six lakes plus Robinson bunkering do the work that desert waste would do at a newer club. San Jacinto sits as the backdrop. Course directories list the North/South combination among the shorter, faster rounds in the valley. Confirm current routing, pace, and whether a given membership category covers all 27 holes plus the express loop. Beyond golf, club materials list a large tennis and pickleball plant (the club has published counts of 20 tennis courts and 20 pickleball courts) and dining tied to the resort kitchen rather than a standalone member grill in the Indian Ridge sense.
Residential inventory around Rancho Las Palmas runs from condominiums and townhomes to single-family houses near Bob Hope Drive. Sub-associations differ. A resort-adjacent address can mean hotel traffic, event calendars, and guest golf on the same grass you see from the patio. That is either the point or the problem, depending on the buyer. The club does not publish an official floor-plan PDF library. Named plan numbers appear in listings; treat MLS, HOA documents, and any resort-adjacent ownership disclosures as the source of truth for size, rental rules, and carrying costs. Membership paths for golf, tennis, pickleball, and social use are published on rlpcc.com. Some categories are marketed with no initiation fee. Reprinting a dollar figure here would go stale. Confirm whether the house you want includes any proprietary resident benefits, and whether those benefits survive a resale.
The club lists 42000 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270. Highway 111, The River, and El Paseo are close. Thunderbird, Tamarisk, and Sunrise sit in the same mid-valley band and play as different legal animals: private historic clubs and a member-owned condo club versus this Omni campus. Omni also publishes reciprocal-style benefits at other Omni golf resorts for members. Ask Membership which of those actually apply to the category you would hold.
Tour the nines. Then ask who else is teeing off behind you on a Saturday in March. Norman Williams and Jacqulyn Stanton of The Stanton Williams Group at Compass work with buyers and sellers at Rancho Las Palmas Country Club. Reach Norman at 760.464.2190 or Jacqulyn at 760.702.2557.