La Quinta Country Club and PGA West are in La Quinta, California, which is in the eastern half of the state. It is about a 2-hour drive southeast from Los Angeles and a 3-hour drive northeast from ...

Davis Thompson walks on the 17th green during the PGA Tour’s The American Express on the Pete Dye Stadium Course at PGA West on Jan. 21, 2023, in La Quinta. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) ...

A desert-area superintendent since the late 1990s, Tim Putnam began his tenure as La Quinta Country Club’s director of agronomy in 2002.

PGA West in La Quinta, site of this week’s The American Express, is in play after L.A.’s golf tournament next month will be moved due to the Palisades fire.

LA QUINTA — The PGA Tour is back on the mainland in the Palm Springs area, where the mandate is always to go low. Three relatively straightforward desert courses greet the field each year at The ...