April 18, 2006

Golfers challenged the stunning Tom Doak-designed course while raising $65,000 for Friends' conservation work at our annual benefit golf tournament, auction, and luncheon celebration at the exclusive Stone Eagle Golf Club on April 17, 2006.

Players mingled with golf legend "Mr. 59" Al Geiberger, the first player to break 60 on the PGA Tour, and took home a commemorative photo of him with their foursome on the spectacular course. 

Waste Management of the Desert
Norwalk Toyota/Scion
Carver Management Corp.
Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians
ABF Consulting
Palm Desert National Bank
Shields Date Gardens
Best, Best & Kreiger
Land Concepts

Altevers Associates
BIGHORN Golf Club
Capital Realty Analysts
City of Indian Wells
City of Palm Desert
Collier International
Coachella Valley Printing
DDC Desert Development Inc.
Desert Pacific Properties
Dynamax Corporation
Dyson & Dyson -- Bill Clawson & Mary Ames
Fedderly & Associates
Kaiser Restaurant Group
Kiner Communications
Limont Financial Services
Lund & Guttry, Certified Public Accountants
MCO Properties, Inc.
Mine Reclamation, LLC
Mirada
Pacific Advanced Civil Engineering/Pacific Aquascape
Restaurante Guillermo's
SouthWest Aquatics
Southern California Gas Company
Southern Hills Development
Stone Eagle
Sundance Escrow
The Gas Company
The Market on El Paseo
UC Riverside
Wayne Connor & Associates
Whitewater Rock & Supply Co.

Local businessmen and women and other generous donors filled the course and enjoyed a day of ideal weather. With no homes or other structures on or around the course, golfers were afforded magnificent 360-degree views of this unique course and the valley below.

Non-golfers also enjoyed the Celebration festivities including lunch and open bar and chances to bid on exceptional auction items including a future round of golf with Mr. 59, a trip to Hawaii, and private tours to some of Friends' conservation areas.

Friends of the Desert Mountains extends our utmost thanks all those who gave so generously of their time and resources to make this event a resounding success. Proceeds will be put to work conserving the unique landscapes of our Coachella Valley and mountains for future generations to enjoy.

Next year's tournament is scheduled for Monday, April 23, 2007, to be held again at the magnificent Stone Eagle Golf Club. Contact our office by phone at 760-568-9918 or email us at to be put on the invitation mailing list, as space on the course is limited. Click here.