Thunderbird Country Club

The Thunderbird Country Club is an 18-hole golf course designed by Lawrence Hughes in Rancho Mirage in California's Coachella Valley. It has hosted the Ryder Cup and the Palm Springs Golf Classic (now known as the CareerBuilder Challenge). Opened in 1951, the country club has been a favorite of many celebrities including Bing Crosby and Bob Hope^[1] as well as US Presidents Gerald Ford and Barack Obama ^[2]

References

↑ Our History Thunderbird Country Club website, accessed March 28, 2015
↑ Obama's visit put spotlight back on Thunderbird by Dominique Fong The Desert Sun, June 21, 2014

Venues of the Ryder Cup

Worcester Country Club, Worcester, Massachusetts (1927)
Moortown Golf Club, Leeds (1929)
Scioto Country Club, Upper Arlington, Ohio (1931)
Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club, Southport (1933 & 1937)
Ridgewood Country Club, Paramus, New Jersey (1935)
Portland Golf Club, Raleigh Hills, Oregon (1947)
Ganton Golf Club, Ganton, North Yorkshire (1949)
Pinehurst Resort, Pinehurst, North Carolina (1951)
Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey (1953)
Thunderbird Country Club, Rancho Mirage, California (1955)
Lindrick Golf Club, Lindrick, South Yorkshire (1957)
Eldorado Country Club, Indian Wells, California (1959)
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire (1961 & 1977)
East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta, Georgia (1963)
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, Merseyside (1965 & 1969)
Champions Golf Club, Houston, Texas (1967)
Old Warson Country Club, St. Louis, Missouri (1971)
Muirfield, Gullane, East Lothian (1973)
Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, Pennsylvania (1975)
The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia (1979)
Walton Heath Golf Club, Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey (1981)
PGA National Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida (1983)
The Belfry, Wishaw, Warwickshire (1985, 1989, 1993 & 2002)
Muirfield Village, Dublin, Ohio (1987)
Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Kiawah Island, South Carolina (1991)
Oak Hill Country Club, Pittsford, New York (1995)
Valderrama Golf Club, Sotogrande, Andalusia (1997)
The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts (1999)
Oakland Hills Country Club, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (2004)
K Club, Straffan, County Kildare (2006)
Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky (2008)
Celtic Manor Resort, Newport, Wales (2010)
Medinah Country Club, Medinah, Illinois (2012)
Gleneagles, Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross (2014)
Hazeltine National Golf Club, Chaska, Minnesota (2016)
Le Golf National, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Île-de-France (2018)
Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisconsin (2020)
Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, Guidonia, Rome (2022)
Bethpage Black Course, Farmingdale, New York (2024)

Coordinates: 33°45′15″N 116°25′34″W / 33.7542°N 116.4261°W / 33.7542; -116.4261

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