North at Shadow Hills Golf Club

Shadow Hills Golf Club's North Course occupies desert terrain in Indio, part of California's Coachella Valley. Designed by Lee Schmidt and Brian Curley, the course reflects the team's extensive portfolio of work in desert and resort settings across the American West and Asia. Schmidt and Curley typically emphasize strategic variety and playability across different skill levels while working within the natural contours and vegetation of their sites.

The North Course routes through classic low-desert landscape characterized by sandy washes, native scrub vegetation, and views toward the surrounding mountain ranges that frame the valley. The design incorporates the natural elevation changes and desert arroyos common to the region, with fairways defined against the tan and brown palette of the Sonoran Desert ecosystem. Water features appear selectively, contrasting with the arid setting.

Shadow Hills operates as a daily-fee facility, making the North Course accessible to public play alongside its companion South Course. The property serves both local golfers from the Coachella Valley communities and visitors drawn to the area's concentration of desert golf. Indio sits in the eastern portion of the valley, where summer temperatures regularly exceed one hundred degrees, making late fall through early spring the primary season for comfortable play. The course provides a representative example of modern desert golf design principles applied to publicly accessible terrain in one of Southern California's most golf-dense regions.