Thomas O’Donnell: One of the richest oilmen in California, O’Donnell decided to craft his own golf course in Palm Springs. That course was the major golf site in the Coachella Valley for two decades, ...
It was one simple sentence in the Nov. 13, 1924 edition of the Banning Record newspaper in a column devoted to Palm Springs news. “The Desert Inn golf course is being surrounded by a substantial stone ...