best golf course in las vegas is a hard choice with so many top championship courses now - by Mike

Best Golf Course in Las Vegas

Best golf course in Las Vegas is a hard choice with so many top championship courses competing for the title. The best golf course in Las Vegas in top running are: "Reflection Bay", "Wolf Creek", Shadow Creek, The Wynn Golf Course, Rio Secco and Cascata. Each one of these courses is in a different part of town.

Shadow Creek Golf Club has been consistently voted number 1 by golfers. Shadow Creek is truly the most exclusive, private golf course in Vegas. To play you must be a registered guest at one of the MGM Mirage properties. Be prepared to be startled by this oasis of rolling turf, huge pine trees and flourishing gardens surrounded by glittering lakes and ponds. It's hard to say how many have really played there. The fact is, like Wynn Las Vegas Golf, it will cost you over $500 to play. The only golfers you are likely to see on this best golf course in Las Vegas are high rollers and celebrities.

Wolf Creek makes its prize-winning way through the desert canyons in the growing but amiable town of Mesquite, 80 miles from the Las Vegas Strip. Some ardent admirers of golf architecture go there just to take a look. With original crushed granite bunkers and breathtaking views that never stop, this course is also spellbindingly tough to play. It ranks 154 at USGA. That makes Wolf Creek the 3rd toughest course in the country!

Reflection Bay is another very strong contender for best golf course in Las Vegas. This public course is part of a $4 billion dollar residential and international resort destination miles from the Strip in Henderson. Reflection Bay looks like an oasis from the air with its 320-acre lake and 1.5 miles of fairways. While on the ground this Jack Nicklaus design feels like a seaside, desert and mountain course all in one. Reflection received the honor of top 10 golf courses you can play from none other than Golf Magazine.

A partner with Harrah's and Rio, Cascata Golf Course is that desert course with the 415 foot high waterfall you have heard of. Living up to its name, which means 'waterfall' in Italian, Cascata is a site to behold. This man-made waterfall rushes down the mountain and flies past the clubhouse before becoming part of the course. This is not budget golfing but resort golfing at its finest. Sports Illustrated labeled it 'golf's hidden treasure.'

Want drama? Get to Rio Secco's hole number 7 with its steep rising cliffs on either side of this green carved out of a canyon. It's impossible to keep your scorecard clean. Just to keep you on your toes there's a tee shot that must hop over a desert below. Mostly it's a lot of fun. Rees Jones designed this keeper.

A green fee of over $500 - no problem! The Golf Course at the Wynn just keeps growing in demand. It's one of only 2 golf courses actually on the Strip. The other is Bali Hai Golf Club. The idea behind the course is you won't believe you are golfing on the Strip. The view of Wynn's course with its lakes, wide rolling rivers and 45 foot high waterfall is breathtaking from the Wynn Hotel Las Vegas. It's time you planned your next Las Vegas golf vacation around the best golf course in Las Vegas.