In his year-end roundup of developments for the industry in California’s Coachella Valley, golf writer Larry Bohannan cited investments by Bighorn GC and Toscana CC as a sign that “on at least one level [golf] continues to attract players and money.” The re-opening of Rancho Mirage CC was also noted as another sign that things “certainly [aren’t] as bad as a lot of people want you to believe.”