Best Golf Courses in Summerlin (2026): Public, Private & Value
Eight courses ranked across the full Summerlin spectrum, from Tom Fazio's invitation-only pinnacle to Golf Summerlin's daily-fee tracks, followed by the best public courses and the best value rounds.
Few master-planned communities in the American West pack more golf per square mile than Summerlin. Any list of the best golf courses in Summerlin ends up comparing things that barely belong in the same conversation: a par-60 executive track people walk before work, and an invitation-only Tom Fazio layout that hosted the PGA TOUR's CJ Cup. Wildly different propositions, same handful of zip codes. Working out which end of that range you want is what makes Summerlin's golf scene worth understanding before you book a tee time, buy into a golf-community village, or plan a multi-day trip to the west side of Las Vegas.
How we pick: Published course data, local knowledge, and a steady stream of opinions from residents, club members, and visiting golfers who tell us when we have it wrong. Nobody buys a spot here. We take no green fees, no memberships, and no advertising arrangements in exchange for placement. The ranking measures course quality, access, design, and the round itself, judged against what each course is actually trying to be.
1. The Summit Club
Access is the whole story: invitation-only, no guest-fee workaround, no back door worth chasing. Behind that gate sits Tom Fazio's 18-hole, par-72 design on 600 elevated acres at roughly 3,000 feet, opened in 2017 and stretching to 7,457 yards from the back tees. It hosted the 2021 CJ Cup PGA TOUR event. Residential sales here have set all-time Las Vegas records, which says more about the buyer pool than the golf. The golf holds up anyway. Fazio routed it so each fairway sits in a world of its own, and from several elevated tees you get Red Rock Canyon to the west and the Strip shimmering to the east. It is the ceiling of Summerlin golf, and by extension Las Vegas golf. Almost nobody reading this will play it. The Summit Club course page has the full context.
Buyers weighing a move into The Summit community cannot separate the golf from the real estate, and should not try. The membership and the address are one purchase. No other Las Vegas neighborhood sells quite the same package.
2. TPC Summerlin
October 1996 is why this course matters. A 20-year-old Tiger Woods won his first PGA TOUR event here, and the place has carried that ever since. Bobby Weed built the par-72, 7,243-yard championship layout in 1991 with Fuzzy Zoeller as player consultant, and the numbers hold up: a course rating of 74.4 and a slope of 137 from the tips. A proper test, not a nostalgia trip. For decades the Shriners Children's Open turned the property into a full PGA TOUR venue every October, bentgrass greens running above 11 feet, until the event concluded after its 2024 edition. Access stays private, though corporate outings are the realistic way in. See the TPC Summerlin course page for details, and the Tournament Hills community for the closest addresses.
3. Red Rock Country Club
Two Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay championship courses sit inside this 738-acre guard-gated community on Summerlin's western edge. Members keep the private Mountain Course to themselves at 7,001 yards and a slope of 136. Everyone else plays the semi-private Arroyo Golf Club, open on a daily fee at 6,883 yards with a slope of 125, which makes it the more approachable of the two. Do not read that as soft. Its island-green par-3 seventh is one of the most photographed holes in Las Vegas and it still takes good rounds apart. Sitting up against the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area gives the community and both courses a setting nothing else in Summerlin matches. You pay for that as much as the golf. More in the Red Rock Country Club review, plus the Red Rock Country Club community if a move is on the table.
4. TPC Las Vegas
Ask what the best public round in Summerlin is and this is the honest answer, for visitors and locals who want championship pedigree without a private membership. It is the only daily-fee PGA TOUR-branded course in the Summerlin corridor: Bobby Weed's 1996 design with Raymond Floyd as player consultant, par 71 and 7,016 yards, carved through dramatic desert canyons on the western edge of Las Vegas. Weed used the natural arroyos rather than bulldozing them, and the par-3s are the strongest set of short holes on any public course in the valley. You pay for it. Green fees sit well above the Golf Summerlin tracks, but the scenery and course quality justify the gap. See the full TPC Las Vegas review.
5. Angel Park Golf Club
Winning "Best Golf Course in Las Vegas" for 14 of the past 15 years is either a durable design or a tired award. Mostly the former. Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay's 36-hole public facility in west Las Vegas holds its conditioning under Arcis Golf, which not every high-volume operation in this valley manages. Play the Mountain Course first: par 71, 6,722 yards, rating 71.1 and slope 130. Elevated par-3 tees hand you Red Rock Canyon to the west and the Strip to the east. Multi-tiered Bermuda greens punish anyone lagging from the wrong tier, and the afternoon wind adds a course-management layer that keeps every round honest. With the Palm Course and the lighted Cloud Nine short course alongside, this is a full day rather than a single-layout stop. Details and planning tips are in the Angel Park Golf Club review.
6. Siena Golf Club
Presentation is what Siena sells. Brian Curley and Lee Schmidt's 2000 design in south Summerlin is the most atmospherically polished public-access round in the corridor. A Tuscan-styled clubhouse and sweeping Spring Mountains views read closer to a private club than a typical daily-fee track. From the Gold tees it plays 6,843 yards, par 72, with water and bunkering placed to make you choose, not just to look at. Four holes carry the round: the carry-over-water par-3 fifth, the water-flanked par-4 ninth, the thirteenth, and the lake-guarded eighteenth. What sits between them is pleasant rather than tactical. Fair trade at this price. GPS carts, a short-game area, and a driving range complete a package that consistently punches above its green fee. Full details in the Siena Golf Club review.
7. Palm Valley Golf Club
Count the bunkers. There are 68, and Billy Casper and Greg Nash placed every one with strategic intent, not decoration. Their 1989 founding design for Golf Summerlin remains the most architecturally demanding course on the public-play campus: 6,706 yards, par 72, closing with a water-guarded 534-yard par-5 that has ruined plenty of good cards. Mature tree-lined fairways and consistent bentgrass greens give it a private-club feel that newer Las Vegas public tracks rarely achieve. If you want a proper championship test at an accessible public-golf price, Palm Valley is the pick. Read the full Palm Valley Golf Club review.
8. Highland Falls Golf Club
Elevation is the hook and the payoff. Perched on a hillside in Sun City Summerlin at 3,000 feet, the second Casper and Nash design in the Golf Summerlin portfolio plays 6,391 yards, par 72, with a rating of 70.5 and a slope of 131. That thin air buys roughly a club of distance on every approach, which rewards confident players and teaches conservative ones to recalibrate. It is shorter and more approachable than Palm Valley. It is also the better view, with the Strip to the east and desert ridgeline to the west that no lower-elevation course can replicate. Among Summerlin's public courses it sits in a valuable middle tier: more strategic than Eagle Crest, more accessible than TPC Las Vegas, and scenic the whole way around. See the Highland Falls Golf Club review for the full picture.
Verdict: How to Choose
One round, public, telling the Summerlin story at the highest level you can actually book: TPC Las Vegas. If a member can get you on, TPC Summerlin is the historically irreplaceable option. Best value goes to Palm Valley and Highland Falls, which together make Golf Summerlin's strongest case and are why locals keep a card there. Then there is the version where the course is the neighborhood. Red Rock Country Club, The Ridges (future Amara Golf Club), and The Summit Club each offer a different version of what that can mean in Las Vegas, and which fits comes down to budget and how private you want your life. The courses on this list are not interchangeable. Each is the best version of what it is trying to be.
Best public golf courses in Summerlin
This section absorbs our standalone public-courses list, first published June 8, 2026, and keeps its order.
Finding the best public golf courses in Summerlin is not complicated once you understand what each course is. Seven of them sit in a corridor that starts at Sun City Summerlin in the northwest, runs down through south Summerlin and ends at Angel Park in the west. The range runs from a PGA TOUR-branded championship layout to a par-60 executive track that beginners and seniors use for quick evening rounds. Everything here is daily-fee and bookable today, ranked by what it delivers on the day rather than by reputation.
1. TPC Las Vegas
The only daily-fee PGA TOUR-branded course in Summerlin settles most arguments about the best public round out here. Weed and Floyd routed it through natural arroyos at par 71 and 7,016 yards, the canyon scenery is the most dramatic of any public course on the west side, the par 3s are the strongest set of short holes in the public field, and conditioning holds up better than comparable daily-fee tracks manage. Visitors get one premium public round in Summerlin. Spend it here. Full review.
2. Angel Park Golf Club
The Mountain Course (par 71, 6,722 yards, rating 71.1, slope 130) is why Angel Park has taken "Best Golf Course in Las Vegas" in 14 of the past 15 years. Elevated par-3 tees hand you Red Rock Canyon and the Strip, multi-tiered Bermuda greens punish anyone who cannot lag a putt, and the Palm Course, the lighted Cloud Nine short course and the natural-grass putting park make it a full day. Fees run roughly $55 to $174 by season, so timing the booking matters. Full review.
3. Palm Valley Golf Club
Golf Summerlin's founding championship course: 6,706 yards, par 72, 68 bunkers used to ask questions rather than decorate, tree-lined fairways with a private-club character, and a closing stretch anchored by the 534-yard water-guarded 18th that will take a good card apart. Play Golf Summerlin once and want the most complete architectural test? This is the one. Full review.
4. Highland Falls Golf Club
At 3,000 feet the ball carries roughly a club farther, which surprises first-timers and rewards whoever recalibrates fastest. Shorter and more approachable than Palm Valley at 6,391 yards, it competes on scenery, Strip views east and desert ridgeline west, with bentgrass greens that hold condition better than the fee suggests. Mid-handicappers who want honest, scenic golf without TPC prices should book here and stop shopping. Full review.
5. Siena Golf Club
Technically public, it does not behave like it. Curley and Schmidt's 2000 design runs 6,843 yards from the Gold tees with water and bunkers placed to force real risk-reward decisions, and the Tuscan clubhouse and Spring Mountains handle the atmosphere. If you want the feel of a private round without the membership, this is the closest thing in Summerlin. Full review.
6. Eagle Crest Golf Club
Par 60, roughly 4,067 yards, built into the Sun City Summerlin mountainside. Golf Summerlin's executive layout is not trying to be a championship test, and that is the point: manageable distances, rounds under three hours, real course conditions for beginners and seniors, and a better use of an evening than a bucket of range balls for anyone sharpening an iron game. City and valley views come free. Course guide.
7. Las Vegas National Golf Club
Not a Summerlin course, and nobody should pretend otherwise; it sits about 15 minutes east in central Las Vegas. It earns its place anyway. Bert Stamps's 1961 parkland design is one of the oldest surviving public courses in the valley and a deliberate contrast to the desert-links style that dominates modern Las Vegas golf. Play it for that contrast, or for where this chapter of the city's golf began. Course guide.
The public verdict. Sort the list into two groups and it gets simpler. TPC Las Vegas and Angel Park are where serious design pedigree meets public tee times. Everything else is about fit: the Golf Summerlin campus of Palm Valley, Highland Falls and Eagle Crest is the reliable, well-maintained middle tier that locals need from a home rotation. Visiting for one round? TPC Las Vegas, no debate. Building a weekly schedule? A Golf Summerlin pass alongside periodic TPC Las Vegas or Angel Park rounds is how most serious west-side players get through a season. For the whole valley, not just Summerlin, see the best public golf courses in Las Vegas.
Best value golf courses in Summerlin
This section absorbs our standalone value list, first published June 8, 2026.
The best value golf courses in Summerlin are not simply cheap rounds. They are courses where design, conditions, scenery and the overall experience exceed what the green fee leads you to expect. A poorly maintained round for $25 is not value golf; a Casper and Nash championship layout at a Golf Summerlin price, with bentgrass greens and a Strip view you did not pay TPC money for, is. These are the five where locals consistently feel the experience punches above what they paid.
1. Palm Valley Golf Club
The single strongest value argument in the Golf Summerlin portfolio. A course a private club would be comfortable putting its name on, at a public price, with conditioning the Sun City Summerlin community model keeps a notch above comparable public tracks. Best for: mid- to low-handicappers who want architectural depth; book spring mornings for the best greens.
2. Highland Falls Golf Club
Scenery and green quality relative to cost. The elevation adds a club, the bentgrass runs at a speed you rarely find at this price, and it is the better pick for a 36-hole day because it asks less of your legs than Palm Valley. Best for: a wide range of handicaps; the most scenic round on the campus; pairing with Palm Valley.
3. Eagle Crest Golf Club
Eighteen real holes in under three hours on a maintained course with mountain and valley views, at the lowest fee in northwest Summerlin, and the fastest pace in the Golf Summerlin family. Best for: beginners, seniors, quick rounds and iron-game practice; the lowest-risk public round when time is short.
4. Angel Park Golf Club
Value through dynamic pricing: an early-week morning can put you on the best public course in the valley at a fee that competes with the Golf Summerlin tracks, with a second 18 and the lighted short course on the same campus. The caveat is weekend-afternoon pace. Best for: visitors who want the best public round at the best available price; time the booking.
5. Las Vegas National Golf Club
A different kind of value: a genuinely historic parkland course at a price well below what comparable vintage layouts command elsewhere, 15 minutes east of Summerlin. Best for: golfers who want history and a change from desert-links scenery; a deliberate trip rather than a default.
The value verdict. Summerlin's best value is concentrated on the Golf Summerlin campus, Palm Valley and Highland Falls above all, where Casper and Nash's work consistently outperforms its green fee. Angel Park earns a place through pricing that, timed well, delivers the valley's best public course at an accessible rate. Eagle Crest is the honest pick for quick rounds and beginners. Las Vegas National is for context. None is the cheapest round in the valley; each is one where the golf is worth more than you paid. What a round costs across Las Vegas by tier and the fall 2026 rate reset put the fees in context.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best public golf course in Summerlin?
TPC Las Vegas. It is the only daily-fee PGA TOUR-branded course in the Summerlin corridor, routed by Bobby Weed and Raymond Floyd through natural desert canyons at par 71 and 7,016 yards, with the strongest set of par 3s on any public course in the valley. Angel Park's Mountain Course is the alternative answer, and the better value when booked off-peak.
What is the best value golf course in Summerlin?
Palm Valley Golf Club, Golf Summerlin's 1989 Billy Casper and Greg Nash championship course in Sun City Summerlin: 6,706 yards, par 72, 68 bunkers and a water-guarded par-5 18th, at a municipal-tier green fee with cart included. Highland Falls, next door at 3,000 feet, is the scenic runner-up.
Which golf courses in Summerlin are private?
The Summit Club (invitation-only, Tom Fazio, 2017), TPC Summerlin (members and guests; corporate outings available) and Red Rock Country Club's Mountain Course. Red Rock's Arroyo Course is semi-private with daily-fee tee times. Bear's Best closed to the public in June 2025 and is being rebuilt as the private Amara Golf and Social Club.
How many golf courses are in Summerlin?
This ranking covers the eight courses and clubs that define Summerlin golf plus Eagle Crest, the executive course: four public (TPC Las Vegas, Angel Park, Palm Valley, Highland Falls), one semi-private (Siena), two private clubs (TPC Summerlin, The Summit Club) and Red Rock Country Club with its private Mountain and semi-private Arroyo courses. The full directory adds every course across the Las Vegas valley.