Golf in Las Vegas
Forty-nine courses are open right now, from municipal tracks under $100 to a course you can only book by staying at the right hotel. This is the whole picture — what exists, what it costs, when to come, and how to choose.
What Las Vegas golf actually is
Forty-nine golf courses are open in and around Las Vegas today. Thirty-one take public daily-fee tee times, eleven are private clubs, and seven are resort courses tied to a hotel. That is a serious amount of golf for a city of two million, and it exists because the desert is cheap to build on and the visitors keep coming.
The thing most guides get wrong is treating it as one market. It is at least four. There is resort golf, built to be photographed and priced accordingly. There is the municipal system, which is genuinely good and absurdly cheap by comparison. There is the Summerlin corridor on the west side, where the master-planned community put championship courses next to the housing. And there is a ring of day-trip golf an hour or two out — Mesquite especially — where the best value in the state lives.
Which one you want depends on what you came for. The rest of this page sorts that out.
How much it costs
The spread is wider than almost any golf market in America. Municipal golf at Las Vegas Golf Club — the city's oldest course, opened in 1938 — or Desert Rose or Wildhorse in Henderson runs well under $100 for most of the year. Mid-tier daily-fee courses sit in the low hundreds. TPC Las Vegas publishes starting rates of $119 for Nevada residents and $159 for everyone else. The marquee resort courses run several times that.
Season moves the price more than anything else. The same tee time can cost three times as much in April as in July. If you are flexible, that is the single biggest lever you have — more than membership, more than booking windows, more than negotiating.
Full green-fee breakdown by tier →
When to come
Las Vegas golf never closes for a season, which is the whole point of it. But the year has a clear shape.
March through May and October through November are the good months: warm, dry, courses in condition. They are also the busiest and priciest, and the weekend tee sheets fill weeks out. June through September is brutal. Locals play at dawn or wait for twilight, and the rates collapse to match — this is when the expensive courses become affordable. December through February is mild and quiet, genuinely pleasant golf, but many courses overseed in the autumn and conditions vary, so ask before you book.
Month-by-month conditions and pricing →
Where to play, by what you want
The course people fly in for
Shadow Creek is the one. Tom Fazio built it for Steve Wynn in 1990 by moving enough earth to invent a landscape that has no business being in the Mojave. Our national title TopCourses.golf ranks it 35th in the United States. You cannot simply book it — you need a stay at an MGM Resorts property — and that gate is the reason it plays the way it does.
Golf with the Strip in frame
Bali Hai sits at the south end of Las Vegas Boulevard, the closest course to the Strip and the only championship layout still on it. Wynn Golf Club is the one you can walk to from your room. Neither is cheap; both deliver the thing people mean when they say they want to golf in Vegas.
Every course within reach of the Strip →
The best public round in Summerlin
TPC Las Vegas, a Bobby Weed design with Raymond Floyd as player consultant, opened in 1996 and plays 7,016 yards at par 71 from the TPC tees, rated 73.9 with a slope of 146. It is the only PGA TOUR-branded course in the corridor taking daily-fee bookings — its neighbour TPC Summerlin, which hosted the Shriners Children's Open through 2024, is private.
Public golf across Summerlin →
Cheap golf that is actually good
The municipal system is the most underrated thing in Las Vegas golf. Las Vegas National — Bert Stamps, opened October 1961 as the Stardust Country Club — plays 6,614 yards at par 71 and publishes resident rates from $69. The Golf Summerlin campus runs three Billy Casper and Greg Nash courses at the top of the valley, including an executive layout that goes round in under three hours.
Value picks across the valley →
Worth the drive
Ninety minutes north-east on I-15, Wolf Creek in Mesquite is the most photographed course in Nevada and one of the most dramatic in the country. Mesquite has five courses and is the best-value golf trip in the state. Pahrump and Laughlin each add one more.
How to book
Most public courses take direct online bookings, and booking direct is usually cheaper than the aggregators once you account for cart and fees. Resort courses often reserve the best times for hotel guests. Private clubs need a member, with two partial exceptions: the Arroyo course at Red Rock Country Club takes daily-fee play, and some clubs open up through reciprocal arrangements.
For peak season weekends, book several weeks out. For summer, walk-up and twilight are realistic and cheap.
Where and how to book, course by course →
What has closed
Four courses have closed since 2015, and they still show up in guides and booking sites years later. Bear's Best Las Vegas closed to public play on 30 June 2025 and is being redeveloped as the private Amara Golf and Social Club. Primm Valley closed in July 2024. Silverstone closed on 1 September 2015, and Black Mountain on 26 November 2018.
We keep a dated record of all four, because the rest of the web does not.
Closed Las Vegas golf courses →
The private side
Eleven private clubs operate in the valley. At the top, The Summit Club is invitation-only — a Tom Fazio course on more than 600 acres of elevated Summerlin, and the only PGA TOUR venue in town that ordinary money cannot reach. Southern Highlands, Red Rock Country Club and Spanish Trail sit below it, each attached to its own residential community.
Private clubs and how access works →
Frequently asked questions
How many golf courses are there in Las Vegas?
Forty-nine are currently open. Thirty-one take public daily-fee tee times, eleven are private clubs, and seven are resort courses attached to a hotel or casino. That covers the valley — Summerlin, the Strip and central Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas — plus Boulder City and the day-trip towns of Mesquite, Pahrump and Laughlin. Four more have closed since 2015.
Can you golf in Las Vegas year-round?
Yes, it never shuts for the season. October through November and March through May are the best months for weather and conditions, and the busiest and priciest. Summer is punishing and cheap. Winter is mild and quiet, though autumn overseeding means conditions vary, so ask before booking.
What does it cost to play golf in Las Vegas?
Municipal golf runs well under $100 most of the year. Mid-tier daily-fee sits in the low hundreds. TPC Las Vegas publishes starting rates of $119 resident and $159 non-resident, and the marquee resort courses run several times that. Season moves the number more than anything else.
Do you need to stay at a hotel to play the resort courses?
For some. Shadow Creek requires an MGM Resorts stay and Wynn is effectively a hotel amenity. Bali Hai, Reflection Bay and Cascata take direct bookings from anyone, though resort guests often get preference and better rates.
Where should a first-time visitor play?
Shadow Creek if budget is open. Bali Hai or Wynn if you want the Strip in the frame. TPC Las Vegas for the best public round in Summerlin. The municipal tracks if you want a genuine round without the resort pricing.
Is TPC Summerlin open to the public?
No — members and guests only. It hosted the Shriners Children's Open through 2024, which is why it surfaces in searches. TPC Las Vegas, minutes away, is the public one.
Which Las Vegas golf courses have closed?
Four since 2015: Bear's Best (30 June 2025, becoming Amara), Primm Valley (July 2024), Silverstone (1 September 2015) and Black Mountain (26 November 2018).
Keep reading
- The best public golf courses in Las Vegas — every course you can book, ranked, with a map
- The best golf courses in Las Vegas — the full ranking, public and private
- What it costs — green fees by tier
- When to come — month by month
- How to book — tee times, course by course
- The course map — all 50, plotted
- The journal — what is closed and what it costs this week, dated and sourced
Course counts reflect our own directory of 54 entries: 49 open golf courses, four closed or redeveloping, and one residential community that operates no course of its own. Specifications on this page — yardages, pars, ratings, designers, opening years and published rates — were verified against each operator's own website in September 2026. Where an operator publishes nothing, the entry says so.