We audited 35 course listings against their operators. Sixteen were wrong.

Golf course data on the web is mostly copied. A yardage gets typed into a directory in 2009, another site picks it up, a third aggregates the second, and fifteen years later a figure that was never right is everywhere. We had our share of it. Over the past week we audited every course listing on this site that did not already cite an operator source, and sixteen of the thirty-five were wrong.

All sixteen are corrected. Here is the method, the corrections, and the part nobody writes up: the courses whose own websites disagree with themselves.

How the audit worked

The design point was to avoid confirming ourselves. If you hand a fact-checker the existing figure and ask them to verify it, you get confirmation rather than verification — the number anchors them, and near-misses pass.

So each course was audited blind. One researcher per course, none of them told what our page already claimed. Operator sources only: the club's own website, its own scorecard, its own rate card. Every figure had to come back with a verbatim quote and the exact URL it sat on. Third-party listings, directories and aggregators were not acceptable evidence for anything. Where an operator published nothing, the correct answer was "not published" — not a number from somewhere else.

Every correction was then re-fetched and confirmed by hand before it was applied.

The sixteen corrections

Some of these are rounding errors. Several are not. Desert Pines was listed at 6,810 yards against an operator figure of 6,222 — a 588-yard gap, which is the difference between a course you can hit driver on and one you cannot. Rhodes Ranch was wrong by 327 yards and a full stroke of par. Paiute Snow Mountain was two transposed digits, which is how most of this happens.

The audit also filled gaps rather than only fixing errors. Las Vegas National had carried no par and no yardage at all; it now has both from the club's scorecard, along with its course rating, its published rate card, and the fact that it opened in October 1961 as the Stardust Country Club.

The part nobody writes up: operators contradict themselves

Four courses publish figures about themselves that do not agree with their own other pages. We record those as notes rather than silently picking one:

• TPC Las Vegas states 7,016 yards on its scorecard, 7,104 in one page of prose and 7,106 in another. Only the scorecard is supported by hole-by-hole data, so that is the figure we use.
• Highland Falls gives Blue at 6,391 yards and 70.5/131 in its tee table, while its own intro paragraph says 6,404 and 69.7/130. We use the tee table.
• The Summit Club says both "600 acres" and "555 acres" on different pages. We say more than 600 and flag it.
• Eagle Crest gives 60.5/97 in the tee table and 60.6/95 in prose. Tee table again.

The general rule we settled on: the scorecard beats the marketing copy. A scorecard has to add up, and an internally consistent set of hole yardages is evidence in a way that a sentence written by a marketing department is not. Durango Hills is the cleanest example — its About page says 3,777 while its own scorecard rows total 3,724, and the rows are self-consistent.

Four entries no operator could confirm

These are flagged on the pages themselves, and they stay flagged until we can fix them:

• Red Rock Country Club publishes no course specifications at all. No yardage, no par, no rating, no slope, no designer credit, no acreage, no scorecard. Our figures come from third-party listings and the page now says so.
• The Ridges publishes no acreage figure. The 793-acre number we carry is attributed rather than asserted.
• Siena Golf Club and Arroyo Golf Club sit behind a host that blocks automated traffic outright. That is not "publishes nothing" — it is unread, and we mark it as unread.

The distinction between "the operator publishes nothing" and "we could not reach the operator" is one we now keep in the data itself, because collapsing the two is how a gap turns into a false fact.

Why publish this

Partly because a correction that nobody sees is a correction you can quietly make again. Mostly because provenance is the only thing that separates a directory from a copy of one. Fifty-two of our fifty-four entries now cite the operator page they were read from; the ones that cannot say why.

If you run a course in the valley and a figure on our page is wrong, send us the page on your own site that has it right and we will correct it and cite you. That is a faster path than it sounds — it is, in effect, how this entire audit ran.

Frequently asked questions

How does Summerlin.Golf verify course information?

Each course entry is checked against the operator's own website — the club's scorecard, tee tables and rate card — rather than against directories or aggregators. Every figure requires a verbatim quote and the exact URL it appeared on. Entries record the operator page they were verified against, and entries the operator could not confirm are marked as unverified rather than presented as fact.

What was wrong with the course data?

Sixteen of thirty-five audited listings disagreed with their operator. Most were yardages copied from third-party directories, ranging from ten-yard rounding differences to a 588-yard gap at Desert Pines. Rhodes Ranch was wrong by 327 yards and a full stroke of par. Several opening years, course ratings and slope figures were also corrected, and Las Vegas National had carried no par or yardage at all.

Why do golf courses publish different yardages on their own websites?

Marketing copy and scorecards are usually written and updated separately, and tee names change over time. TPC Las Vegas states 7,016, 7,104 and 7,106 yards on different pages of its own site; Highland Falls' tee table and intro paragraph disagree; The Summit Club states both 600 and 555 acres. Where this happens we use the scorecard, because hole-by-hole yardages have to add up, and we record the discrepancy.

Which Las Vegas courses do not publish their own specifications?

Red Rock Country Club publishes no course specifications on its own site — no yardage, par, rating, slope, designer credit, acreage or scorecard. The Ridges publishes no acreage figure. Siena Golf Club and Arroyo Golf Club sit behind a host that blocks automated traffic, so their specifications remain unread rather than confirmed absent. All four are flagged on their pages.

Published September 12, 2026 by the Summerlin Golf Editorial Team. Every figure on this page was read from the operator's own website on the date stated and is quoted as published. Golf course conditions, closures and rates change without notice — check with the course before you travel. More from the journal.