Nevada's Best Places to Play Golf
Nevada is full of golf courses that are gorgeous, fun to play, and challenging. Here at Cart Tek, we have compiled a list of the courses we feel have all of those features and more. So read on, and then grab your clubs and your remote control golf caddy and hit the links at one of these amazing courses.
Bali hai Golf Club
Enjoy a little piece of paradise in the middle of the Nevada desert and the Las Vegas strip. Vegas doesn’t have to be all about drinking and playing the slots; it can be about escaping and enjoying the sport you love. And if you are looking for some classic Vegas style fun? Enjoy the course during the day and be minutes away from everything else Las Vegas has to offer at night.
Rio Secco Golf Club
This Nevada course is situated at the foothills of the Black Mountain Range thirteen and a half miles southeast of the Las Vegas Strip. The course is both difficult and playable to golfers of all levels, making it a dynamic and challenging course to all. Additionally, Rio Secco is host to Butch Harmon, named the world’s #1 Golf instructor as well as the infamous T-Mates, a group of lovely ladies available to caddy and host golfers during their time on the course.
Desert Pines Golf Club
Referred to as Las Vegas’ Top Strategic Course, Desert Pines is located less than five minutes from downtown and less than fifteen minutes from the Las Vegas strip. The course invites you to experience the Carolina sandhills and enjoy the refreshing scent of the pine trees that give this course its name. The Dye-designed golf course, modeled after Augusta National Golf Course, features the beautiful pine trees which line the fairways as well as four lakes situated around the course.
Conestoga Golf Club
This dynamic course, located in the adult community of Sun City Mesquite, features every golfing element and obstacle in nature including canyons, rock outcroppings and water elements. The course embodies the feel of a naturally crafted course with its creativity and multi-faceted elements and provides beautiful scenery and a challenging game for all players.
Wolf Creek
Recognized for its spectacular desert landscape as well as brilliant green fairways which wonder through red rock canyon, Wolf Creek, since its opening in 2000, has quickly acquired prestige and has been on the fast track to becoming one of America’s most proclaimed gold courses. It has been selected as a location for Tiger Wood’s video game as well as the location for various advertising films and photography such as Buick, Ogio, and Under Armour. Players around the world travel to Mesquite, Nevada to not only enjoy the beautiful scenery embodied by the course but also to test their skills on the challenging course.
Desert Willow Golf Course
Considered Southern Nevada’s most challenging executive golf course, Desert Willow is known and praised for its challenging character. The course if carved from the foothills of Henderson’s Black Mountain and features sand traps, hilly terrain, undulating greens and water on three holes. Desert Willow is sure to test ability, fitness and patience and all around will improve your game. Additionally, it is a family friendly course which offer junior tees. It also offers great practice facilities, including one of the largest driving ranges in Henderson.
Paiute Golf Resort
Situated twenty five minutes northeast of the Vegas Strip, Paiute is an incredibly unique resort featuring three separate and fantastically creative courses: Snow Mountain, Sun Mountain and WOLF. This trio truly makes for the most dynamic experience you can get on a single resort. Additionally, all three courses feature acclaimed course designer Pete Dye’s signature elements such as railroad tie bunkers and sweeping slope changes. All three courses offer distinct, unique and beautiful challenges and scenery.
Reflection Bay Golf Course
Nestled in one of Nevada’s most luxurious residential resort communities, Lake Las Vegas, this prestigious Jack Nicklaus Signature Design is one of its kind for the state. The beautiful course features challenging holes and a beautiful atmosphere in addition to world-class golf and dining facilities and other unique experiences including a private white sand beach, paddle boarding, and access to the La Contessa and Lady of the Lake yachts.
Royal Links Golf Club
This unique links-style course features holes that have been inspired by eleven British Open rotation courses that make for a fun challenge. If the British Open inapired holes aren’t enough of a challenge, take your shot at beating Tiger Woods’ course record score of 67 (February 2001).
Revere Golf Club
This 36-hole championship offers golfers exciting and challenging golf with unique panoramic views of the Las Vegas Strip. Players are able to tee off at either of the two courses situated on the resort, Lexington and Concord. Testimonials of the courses praise Revere Golf Club for the fun and different facets the two courses offer to players.