Judd Spicer

1 month ago | foremagazine.com | Judd Spicer

A Personal RemembranceWednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. A ballroom at Desert IslandCC in the Coachella Valley pocket of Rancho Mirage. The “Celebration of Life” for my dear friend, my colleague, my collaborator, my playing partner and one of the world’s foremost golf and landscape photographers, John Henebry. Fifty days prior, while riding his bike on New Year’s Day mere miles from these golf grounds, Johnny was hit by a car and tragically killed. He was 76 years old.

1 month ago | foremagazine.com | Judd Spicer

Seventy years of swings and smiles at Indian Wells Country ClubLucy, I’m home!Among the most storied and historic clubs across the 120-course bounty of the Coachella Valley, Indian Wells CC (IWCC) nears its 70-year anniversary having stayed true to its forever, self-appointed moniker: The Fun Club of the Desert.

1 month ago | golfdigest.com | Judd Spicer

The fickle playing partners of Golf and Politics are finding concerning coalescence in one of the nation’s great golf pockets. The Coachella Valley, known to most with the blanketed title of “Palm Springs”—home to 120 courses across a 40-mile spread of SoCal sand and sun and host to annual PGA Tour, PGA Tour Champions and Epson Tour events—is shouldering toward its hot summer offseason with an earnest worry that, come autumn, some its most avid patrons may avoid the tee sheet.

2 months ago | thedesertmag.com | Judd Spicer

Conceived 15 years ago, and with a master plan dating back more than a decade, CV Link is intended to connect the Coachella Valley’s cities via a 40-plus-mile paved pathway for bicycle, pedestrian, and (low-speed) electric vehicles. The project faced its share of encumbrance and detraction since funding began in 2012. Ground was officially broken five years later. The Link will be fully ready to roll in late June.

2 months ago | thedesertmag.com | Judd Spicer

Bodies of water in the desert? Unnatural. Waves in the desert? Call ’em supernatural. Following a pandemic-delayed debut and technically complex 2024 unveiling, waves at the Palm Springs Surf Club (PSSC) are now barreling in full. The resulting surf is a palpable addition to the desert’s burgeoning sports scene. Following a lengthy $80-million makeover of a former Wet ’n Wild water park, PSSC opened at the onset of ’24 with much anticipated aplomb.