Golf

Boulder Creek Golf Club Details

• Opened:
  2003.
• Course designed by:
  Mark Rathert.
• Course Management:
  Boulder City Municipal.
• General Manager / Director of Golf:
  Bob Conrad.
• Head golf professional:
  Andy Schaper.
• Course Record:
  N/A.
• Tee Time Policy:
  Reservations are accepted seven days in advance. Average rates are between $55-$110.
• Course Map:
  Click here.

Boulder Creek Golf Club Review

Here's a formula for golf course success: In the fresh air of historic Boulder City, start with 420 acres with no housing restrictions; build 27 holes designed by an internationally renowned architect Mark Rathert, who has built courses all over the world; make banquet facilities available for large meetings and weddings; and finally, build a California-style clubhouse on a hill overlooking a glittering oasis that kicks off each of the three nines.

Boulder Creek Golf Club opened to rave reviews in 2003, and it delivers a golf experience becoming more and more rare: There's no housing on it anywhere. The extra acres (three times the area of most new courses) translate not only to unlimited golf variety but also to an undisturbed desert view all the way to Bootleg Canyon in the distance.

All that land also allowed for six sets of tees and for fairways, bunkers and greens to be built on a sprawling, generous scale. Any combination of the three nines can stretch beyond 7,500 yards.

Each of the three nines -- Desert Hawk, Coyote Run and Eldorado -- starts off from the clubhouse oasis, then takes players through a broad array of desert-themed holes complete with multiple risk/reward arroyo-laced holes, several with split fairways, and then returns to oasis-themed holes.

The fairways themselves are mostly wide and generous, and there's plenty of variety in hole designs, directions and distances. There's also a nice array of greenside trouble, whether it be sand, water, undulations or the angle of the green to the fairway. Closing holes on each nine are representative.

Coyote Run's 446-yard ninth hole is a dogleg-left, split-fairway par 4 that can avoid water altogether or else bring it into play, depending on the choice off the tee. Desert Hawk's 430-yard ninth hole doglegs right and demands a water carry, either on the drive or second shot. Eldorado's ninth is a 550-yard par 5 with a crossing arroyo that challenges the layup, or go-for-broke, second shot 100 yards shy of the green.

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