The Hideaway occupies about 600 acres of south La Quinta with two private championship courses and 434 properties arranged as Villas, Bungalows, Custom Residences, and remaining custom homesites. Discovery Land Company put the bones in the ground. On June 1, 2021, the club became private-equity and member-owned. The members then voted a nearly $50 million renovation that started in May 2024 and opened its last spaces in January 2026. If the old Hideaway was a handsome Discovery club, the current one is a member club that spent real money putting Pete Dye's handwriting back on the grass.
The Pete Dye Course, completed in 2001, is a links-inspired par 72 of rolling fairways, native grasses, sand, streams, and ponds. Other architects had touched it over the years. Tim Liddy, who worked with Dye for 28 years, restored greens and greenside bunkers in summer 2024 with shaper Michael O'Connor, adding Spectacle or railroad bunkers that nod at St. Andrews and Carnoustie. The Clive Clark Course, also par 72, brings a British Isles sensibility to the same desert: cascading waterfalls, wildflowers, gently rolling fairways, and broad greens. Private-equity golf memberships are capped at 225 members per 18 holes. Practice includes a double-ended range, an 11,000-square-foot putting green, a dedicated short-game area with a 3,500-square-foot chipping green, and a Golf Performance Center with TrackMan.
Villas sit along the Clive Clark fairways with four published floor-plan options and southern mountain views. Bungalows form a small village near the clubhouse, the lock-and-leave product. Custom homes and homesites, ranging from about one-third to over one-half acre, round out the mix. Architectural styles lean Spanish and Santa Barbara contemporary. Public drawings for every plan are not offered as a downloadable library. Treat product type, lot orientation, and current listings as the inventory source of truth. Architectural controls are part of the purchase, not an afterthought.
Lusardi Construction led the renovation with Nick Fullerton & Associates, Tom Hoch Designs, and the golf hands of Liddy and Clark. The clubhouse work added a Spa and Fitness Center, a new Main Bar, renovated dining, updated locker rooms, a new Golf Shop, and The Key, a poolside restaurant overlooking the lake and the ninth green of the Clive Clark course. Dining also includes the Main Dining Room and a 3,000-bottle wine cellar for private gatherings. Pickleball, tennis, and bocce were part of the member brief. Board president Robert McDonald described the vote as three years of planning with the equity membership.
Membership, initiation, and dues figures are not published for the public site. Confirm current schedules with the club before underwriting an offer. Old Town La Quinta is a short drive. When you compare Hideaway to Madison, remember the ownership split: Madison is still Discovery. Hideaway is member-owned, two-course, and coming off a capital cycle that will show up in both the golf and the clubhouse for a decade. Norman Williams and Jacqulyn Stanton of The Stanton Williams Group at Compass work with buyers and sellers at The Hideaway. Reach Norman at 760.464.2190 or Jacqulyn at 760.702.2557.
