Famous Designers - Las Vegas Golf Courses
Famous Designers - Las Vegas Golf Courses
By Dave Pipitone
On your next Las Vegas vacation, buy a designer event. No, not a fashion designer. Play a round of golf at one of the Las Vegas golf courses designed by famous golf architects. Who might they be? Let's review who designed several of the famous Las Vegas golf courses.
For starters, the Paiute Resort in Las Vegas offers the unique beauty of a South Nevada desert golf course at the foothills of the Spring Mountains. Designed by world-reknowned Peter Dye, the three golf courses at this resort offer challenging holes and wild scenery. For example, the Snow Mountain course is marked with railroad ties and water hazards that compliment the lush fairways among the natural desert terrain. Golf Digest named Snow Mountain as the "Number One Public Access Course in Nevada." The Sun Mountain Course and the Wolf Course at Paiute Golf Resort offer similar, amazing rounds.
Another Peter Dye course is the Desert Pines Golf Course. If you are looking for the wooded charm of a Pinehurst golf course in the middle of a desert country, play a round at Desert Pines Golf Course. The course is one of four Las Vegas golf courses operated by Walters Golf. The other three include Bali Hai Golf Course, Royal Links Golf Club and Stallion Mountain Country Club. It features thousands of full grown pine trees flanking the fairways. White sand bunkers protect large, undulating greens. Despite the arid environment in the Las Vegas desert climate, nine out of 18 holes have water in play.
Jay Moorish designed the Painted Desert Golf Club. This The golf architect worked with Robert Trent Jones, George Fazio and Jack Nicklaus. He designed Dragon Ridge Golf Club with David Druzinsky. Mr. Morrish teamed up with Tom Weiskopf to design and build a number of golf courses, some of which are included among the Top 100 U.S. golf courses.
The National Golf Club of Las Vegas was designed by Bert Stamps. The course opened in 1961 and is one of the oldest Las Vegas golf courses. Mr. Stamps has designed a number of other golf courses throughout the U.S. including the Mesquite Golf & Country Club in Palm Springs and the De Leveaga Golf Course in Santa Cruz, California. Tiger Woods won his first PGA win at the 1996 Las Vegas International. Mickey Wright won two LPGA championships at this course. Rub shoulders with history and play a round at the Las Vegas National Golf Club.
The Silverstone Golf Course in one of the outstanding Las Vegas golf courses. This course hosts the Las Vegas Celebrity Players Tour and provides a top-rated golf experience on three courses for all players , all ages and all abilities. Silverstone Golf Club was designed by Robert Cupp, who has built public and private courses from Boca Raton, Florida to Palmetto Plantation Hall in Hilton Head. Mr. Cupp designed other local Las Vegas golf courses like Wildhorse Golf Course in Henderson, Nevada and the Angel 9 course at Angel Park Golf Course in Las Vegas.
The Badlands Golf Club was designed by professional golfers Johnny Miller and Chi Chi Rodriguez. The golf course's name reflects the experience: gorgeous scenery contrasted with dangerous, narrow fairways that cross some very prickly desert landscape.
Last, but not least, are golf courses designed by Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. Arnie designed two beautiful 18-hole courses at Angel Park, and the Arroyo Course at Red Rock Country Club.
Jack Nicklaus designed the Bear's Best Golf Club, which features 18 golf holes; each hole is modeled after the best holes he built at other courses he designed. The Golden Bear's signature course is scenic and challenging to play. The course began operation in 2001.
Make sure to play a round at any or all of these courses during your next Las Vegas golf vacation. Just telling your buddies that you've played a designer course is worth the greens fees.
Dave Pipitone is an avid golfer who loves to play new courses. Check out more information about Las Vegas golf courses at http://www.golf-in-vegas.net.
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