Coachella Valley Golf Courses
The Coachella Valley is an irrigated agricultural and recreational desert valley in southern California east of Los Angeles. The valley extends for approximately 45 miles (72 km) in Riverside County southeast from the San Bernardino Mountains to the Salton Sea. It is approximately 15 miles (24 km) wide along most of its length, bounded on the west by the San Jacinto Mountains and the Santa Rosa Mountains and on the north and east by the Little San Bernardino Mountains. The Coachella Valley is one of the fastest-growing areas in the country, due to part of it’s’ location in Riverside County, California; and real estate booms in the last decade. The area is surrounded on the southwestern side by the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountain ranges, and the Little San Bernardino Mountains on the northeast. These mountains peak at around 11,000 feet, and tend to average at about three to five thousand feet. This makes the marine layer that the rest of southern California is familiar with impossible, and by extension, weather of pretty much any sort is impossible in the valley, unless the system comes in through one of the narrow passes. In the summer, this means clear blue skies for months on end, but the trade-off is that the daily high temperature rarely, if ever, goes beneath a hundred and five degrees, and tends to be closer to 115. In winter, though, the temperatures range from 50 at night to 80 in the daytime, making it a popular winter resort destination.
(See “Coachella Valley”. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)
Due to its very accommodating and good geographic location and climate, many Golf Courses are being put there. These Golf Courses had many effects in the community. The putting up of golf courses gave jobs to those numerous individuals who are in need of work. As the city makes efforts to expand from its agricultural roots to a
bustling city, a new business poised to take advantage of the potential growth is being
received with mixed feelings. Entertainment, Hotels, and other recreational activities were created to attract tourists. There is also a fast-rising development in the place which greatly helped the community people and with the economy in that place. In a valley where golf is an obsession, some golf-course operators are discovering that being the old standby is no longer good enough. Some golf course operators are planning on spending serious money to give their courses a makeover to better appeal to players and be more competitive with other courses.
There are many tournaments in being hold in these golf courses and one of them is the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic which is dedicated to supporting the young, the ill, the homeless, the abused and the disabled in the Coachella valley. It brings hope for the blind it provides guide dogs to approximately 40 blind persons at absolutely no cost to the recipient by giving private donations, and also to the physically handicapped. One of the Coachella Valley’s finest success stories has been the growth of the Coachella Valley Boxing Club & Youth Center and the competitors it has produced. And the Classic has been there helping the Club along the way. The Classic recently donated $40,000 to the Club for their expansion, which enabled them to add another practice ring and more space for punching bags. It also provided space for more boys and girls from across the valley as young as eight. It also provided space for more boys and girls from across the valley as young as eight.
Reference:
Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. 2005. http://www.bhcc.com/
“Coachella Valley”. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Oct. 16, 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coachella_Valley
