Las Vegas green fees reset on 26 September
Las Vegas National's published rate card names the exact day summer pricing ends and fall pricing starts — and shows the non-resident rate rising 64% overnight. Almost nobody else in the valley publishes a rate card at all.
Every guide to Las Vegas golf tells you the same thing: it is cheap in summer and expensive in spring, so come in the shoulder season. True, and useless, because nobody tells you the date. Las Vegas National does. Its published rate card names the exact days each season starts and ends, and reading it tells you more about how valley pricing works than any amount of general advice.
Summer pricing ended on 7 September. Fall pricing starts on 26 September. In between, the course is closed for overseeding.
The published calendar
Las Vegas National — published rate card, read 12 September 2026
Rates run morning, midday and twilight, all week. Blackout dates are excluded and priced separately at the tee sheet.
Three things this card tells you
The non-resident rate rises 64% overnight
A visitor paying $109 for an early tee time on 7 September pays $179 for the same tee time on 26 September. That is a $70 jump in nineteen days, for a round on the same course, and it happens at a single named date rather than drifting upward through the autumn.
The Clark County resident rate over the same boundary goes from $69 to $79. Fourteen per cent against sixty-four. The card is priced for two different customers, and only one of them absorbs the season.
The gap in the middle is the overseeding window
Summer pricing stops on 7 September and fall pricing starts on 26 September, and the eighteen days between them are not priced at all — because the course is shut. Las Vegas National's own notice says it reopens, cart path only, on Saturday 26 September. The same day the rate card starts charging $179.
That is worth internalising as a general rule for the valley: the courses do not raise prices and then improve conditions. They close, reseed, reopen green, and the higher rate arrives with the new grass. If you want the low rate you are playing on dormant summer bermuda in heat; if you want the conditions you are paying peak. There is no window where you get both, and the operators have priced it deliberately. Which courses are closed right now →
The $49 twilight rate is gone, and it is not coming back at $49
Las Vegas National's cheapest published round was $49 — Clark County resident, twilight, summer. That schedule ended on 7 September. From 26 September the fall card drops the twilight tier entirely and the resident floor is $69.
The interesting part is the following summer. The published Summer 2027 card prices resident twilight at $54, not $49, with the morning and midday tiers up five dollars each as well. The sub-$50 round at this course is not returning as a seasonal rate. We have updated our own Las Vegas National page, which had carried "$49–$179", to reflect the card that actually applies from 26 September.
What everyone else publishes
Almost nothing. On 12 September we went looking for published rate cards at TPC Las Vegas, Angel Park, Bali Hai and the Golf Summerlin campus. Only TPC Las Vegas put a number on a public page, and it publishes starting rates rather than a calendar:
Residents can enjoy rates starting at $119. Non-residents can enjoy rates starting at $159.
Those include golf, cart, tax, warm-up balls and GPS, on a seven-day advance booking window, with a valid Nevada driver's licence required for the resident rate. They sit on the club's Special Offers page under a heading that still reads "2025 Promotions" — which is a fair illustration of how much weight a published golf rate can bear. It is the current published figure; it is also a page nobody has dated in a year.
At the others, the rate lives inside a booking engine and moves with demand. That is a legitimate way to sell tee times, and it is also why you cannot compare valley courses in advance: for most of them there is no published number to compare.
What to do with this
- If you are a Clark County resident, the season change costs you very little. Ten dollars at Las Vegas National, and the conditions are better. Play the shoulder.
- If you are visiting, the fortnight either side of the season change is where the value sits — but only at courses that have told you where they are in the cycle. At a course that publishes neither its overseeding window nor its rate card, a cheap quote in late September tells you nothing about what you will be playing on.
- Do not trust a rate you read on an aggregator. They cache, and they cache across a season boundary this abrupt. Read the operator's own page, or call.
- Ask for the twilight tier explicitly. Las Vegas National's fall card has only two tiers, not three. A course that had a twilight rate in August may not have one in October.
All figures here were read from the operators' own pages on 12 September 2026 and are quoted as published. Rates change; we date everything for exactly that reason.
What it costs to play golf in Las Vegas, by tier →
Frequently asked questions
When do Las Vegas green fees go up in the fall?
At Las Vegas National, on 26 September 2026 — the club's published rate card runs Summer 2026 from 26 May to 7 September and Fall 2026/Winter 2027 from 26 September to 5 March. The non-resident morning rate rises from $109 to $179 at that boundary, and the Clark County resident rate from $69 to $79. Most other valley courses do not publish a rate card, so their season boundaries are not public.
How much does it cost to play Las Vegas National?
From 26 September 2026 the published card is $179 morning and $139 afternoon for non-residents and resort guests, and $79 and $69 for Clark County residents. Summer rates, which ran to 7 September, were $109/$89/$69 non-resident and $69/$59/$49 resident. Blackout dates are excluded and priced at the tee sheet.
How much does it cost to play TPC Las Vegas?
TPC Las Vegas publishes starting rates of $119 for Nevada residents and $159 for non-residents, including golf, cart, tax, warm-up balls and GPS, on a seven-day advance booking window. The resident rate requires a valid Nevada driver's licence at check-in. These are starting rates rather than a seasonal calendar.
Why is golf so much more expensive in Las Vegas in the fall?
Because the courses overseed in September. Valley courses close for roughly two to three weeks to plant ryegrass over dormant bermuda, and the higher seasonal rate begins when they reopen green. At Las Vegas National the reopening date and the start of fall pricing are the same day, 26 September. Low summer rates and good conditions do not overlap.
Do Nevada residents pay less for golf in Las Vegas?
Substantially, and the gap widens in season. At Las Vegas National a Clark County resident pays $79 against a non-resident's $179 for the same morning tee time from 26 September — less than half. TPC Las Vegas publishes $119 resident against $159 non-resident. Resident rates generally require valid ID or a driver's licence at check-in.
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.