When famed aviatrix Jackie Cochran and her husband Floyd Oldham bought a ranch 30 miles from downtown Palm Springs in the 1940s, they decided to add a nine-hole golf course to the property for their visitors who braved the dirt roads to seek out the property. The course was designed by LPGA founding member Helen Dettweiller, the only woman to ever design a course in the golf-crazed Palm Springs area.
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