Arnie’s Army Opens SilverRock
Sunday, February 27, 2005 at 09:17 PM Arnold Palmer opened SilverRock (yes one word and the R is capitalized), his umpteenth Palm Springs-area design. Larry Bohannon has all the exciting details.
“With a Scottish piper playing in the background and a golf legend roaming the grounds, the city of La Quinta officially opened its first city-developed golf course Tuesday to an overflowing crowd.”
Bohannon writes that “the course was originally budgeted for $10.3 million dollars but is about $2 million over budget.”
Palmer said he was pleased with the design (and wait 'til he actually sees it!). He also said: "This golf course, SilverRock, is 7,600 yards from the tips. If we continue to build golf courses to satisfy the length that people are hitting the golf ball, in four or five years we'll have to build them 8,000 yards. Well, we're going to run out of real estate."
In another story, Bohannon reports that the loudest cheer of the day followed Arnie’s rumination that, shocking as this may seem, he’s thinking of playing in the Classic again.
"My tournament days are over, although I have given some thought, and I say some thought, to the possibility of coming back and playing one more Bob Hope Desert Classic. I don't know about that."