MGM Resorts International’s famed Shadow Creek Golf Course tops Golfweek’s list of upper side 50 courses owned or operated by gaming companies.
Golfweek panelists range courses on a variety of criteria on scales of unity to 10. They also filing cabinet an boilers suit composite rating. The Uncle Tom Fazio-designed class inward Second Earl of Guilford Las Vegas scores 8.13 overall, easily in front of the 7.26 notched by secondly place Fallen Oak. That course, which is also a Fazio layout, is located inward Saucier, Miss. The associated cassino is Beau Rivage, also an MGM property.
Last month, MGM made Shadow Creek — already the most expensive public course of action in the state — yet pricier. The gaming troupe boosted the 18-hole greenish fee to $1,000 for tip season, which is considered March to May, positive October and November. It’s $750 per circular in the other months.
MGM became the proprietor of Shadow Creek inwards 2000 when it acquired the Mirage from Steve Wynn.
Pair of Silver State Courses Join Shadow Creek
The next-highest NV course of action on the Golfweek list is Edgewood Tahoe in the 17th spot. Located inward Stateline at the Edgewood Tahoe Resort, the line is also a Fazio design, and is the only if lakefront golf game offering inward the region.
Edgewood is the place to the American Century Championship and hosted the 1985 US Senior Open. William Green fees motley past season, but the stream weekday and weekend rates are $290 and $320, severally — rich discounts congenator to Shadow Creek.
The only if other Las Vegas class on the list is Bali Hai Golf Club, which comes inward at list 45. Located on Las Vegas Boulevard and intentional by Brian Curley and Richard Henry Lee Schmidt, the line was antecedently owned by Billy Walters — perhaps the best sports wagerer of all-time.
Several years ago, there was venture the row would live turned into parking for Allegiant Stadium. But it appears those efforts are dead. Bali Hai has affiliations with some MGM properties.
Tribal Courses Show Strong on List
Due in component to some states only allowing tribal gaming, a slew of courses with ties to Native American casinos appear on the Golfweek list.
For example, a combined 13 courses in golf-rich genus Arizona and Calif. make up the cut, with the course at the Cache Creek Casino in Brooks, Calif. scoring highest among cassino golf game offerings in that body politic at list five. That’s followed by the Ben Crenshaw-designed course of action at We-Ko-Pa inwards Fort McDowell, Ariz. That’s ace of deuce courses inward the whirligig 20 associated with that tribal casino.
Conspicuous by its absence seizure from the Golfweek rankings is Florida. That commonwealth is rest home to to a greater extent golf game courses than any other, and some of the to the highest degree prestigious venues inward the US. Despite the front of casinos inwards the state, no more related golf game entities are featured among the Golfweek top 50.