Furnace Creek Inn & Ranch Resort is in the middle of Death Valley National Park 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas and 275 miles northeast of LA. The resort has two hotels, a four diamond 66 room Furnace Creek Inn, and a more moderately priced Furnace Creek Ranch.

The golf course is considered the lowest course in the world at 214 feet below sea level and is an Audubon Sanctuary. It's certainly not what you'd expect in the middle of Death Valley and a couple hundred feet below sea level as it features lush green, fairways bordered by tamarisk and mesquite trees with water hazards in play on six holes. The soft greens are modest and featureless and in many cases protected by sand bunkers. The course can play to 6,236 yards, 69.7/117, course/slope ratings from the tips with three shorter tees. It's not championship golf by any means but born with humble beginnings. It opened in 1927 as a three hole layout designed by Murray Miller, one of the ranch hands of the farming community and expanded to 9 holes in 1931. Billy Bell added an additional 9 holes in 1968 and Perry Dye did some redesign work in 1997.