Best Golf Courses in Summerlin (2026): Local Rankings & Reviews

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.