Golf Courses

Wildhorse Golf Club

Home to one of the toughest golf holes in Las Vegas, Wildhorse Golf Club is a great venue for golfers of all abilities. Originally built in 1959, the course was redesigned in 2004 by architects Brian Curley & Lee Schmidt and has several holes guarded by shimmering lakes. The championship, par 70 layout is a local's favorite, and a former stop on the PGA tour - regularly hosting the "Sahara Invitational." Wildhorse Golf Club offers a highly enjoyable round of golf at a comfortable price.

Pictured above is No. 18, a par 4 measuring 398 yards, which was named the toughest hole in the Las Vegas area by the staff at Vegas Golfer Magazine. Placement off the tee is a premium. Too short, and golfers face a long-iron or wood second shot into a green that is fronted by a second lake. Too long, and sand comes into play. The only bailout is to the right, but a bunker still comes into play. One of the finest, as well as toughest golf holes in Vegas, this one has golfers coming back for more.

Siena Golf Club

sierra2 Beneath the towering Spring Mountains in the Siena community in Summerlin lies one of Vegas golf's most pleasant surprises: the par-72, 6,843-yard Siena Golf Club. The gently rolling rye grass fairways, artfully contoured white sand bunkering and undulating bentgrass greens are all kept in superb condition year-round, and the Curley-Schmidt design team has engineered an excellent blend of doglegs and straightaway holes, as well as a variety of up and down terrain changes to make the course enjoyable for anyone. The key is there are usually generous bailout areas for the feint of heart; but to go low at Siena, one must take chances. Off the tees, most of the landing areas are generous, though fairway bunkers are deep and penal, with soft sand and high faces. Around the greens, there's also plenty of strategic bunkering, and six holes play over or along water.

Silverstone Golf Club

Robert Cupp, Golf World's first "Golf Course Architect of the Year," designed Silverstone's 27 superb holes, and they offer everything players can ask for: tough but fair challenges; beautiful contouring; enchanting variety in hole lengths, distances and directions; and generous fairways that give everyone a solid chance to both have fun and score.

All three nines feature rye grass fairways and roughs and bentgrass greens, while Cupp's design is reflected in the names of the three nines: Valley, Desert and Mountain (in ascending order of difficulty).

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Tuscany Golf Club

Ted Robinson -- whose Sahalee Country Club course hosted the 1998 PGA Championship -- designed the new Tuscany Golf club in Henderson, Nev., and many local players immediately took a shine to it. Robinson banked the roughs inward to help bring wayward drives back into play, and Tuscany's 68 white sand bunkers and gently undulating Bermuda greens and fairways feature just the right amount of challenge.

Each nine of the par-72, 6,906-yard layout has a distinctly separate character. On the front side, most of the tees are elevated to allow players a complete view all the way to the green. The back nine includes a few elevated tees, but most of it plays on more level ground. Both nines require few forced carries, and water comes into play on just four holes. Recently, 2,000 palm trees have been added, and 28 acres of turf was replaced with desert landscaping, so though the course is only a year old, it's relatively new all over again.