Golf

Las Vegas Paiute Resort, Wolf Course Details

• Opened:
  2001.
• Course designed by:
  Pete Dye.
• Course Management:
  N/A.
• General Manager / Director of Golf:
  Byron Cone.
• Head golf professional:
  Greg Wickensimer.
• Course Record:
  Snow Mountain: Billy Harvey, 65; Sun Mountain: Gary Wise, 64; Wolf: Karrie Webb, 64.
• Tee Time Policy:
  Reservations are accepted up to 60 days in advance. Rates range from the mid-$100s.
• Course Map:
  Click here.

Las Vegas Paiute Resort, Wolf Course Review

Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort won a 2004 VegasGolfer fairway award for "Best Overall Experience," and readers also picked Paiute's Wolf course for "Best Upscale Course" in the valley. To keep its three Pete Dye courses in their always remarkable shape, Paiute employs three wells of its own. Resort workers pride themselves on conserving water and making every drop count. The result is impeccably maintained fairways and bentgrass greens that never go thirsty. In addition, the expansively beautiful, many-windowed adobe-style clubhouse is second to none for style, food, creature comforts and service.

At Paiute expansive is the word. There's no housing anywhere, nothing to distract from the natural beauty of the courses nestled between the Spring and Sheep Mountain Ranges. Dye, meanwhile, has smoothly engineered a seamless melding of golf with the natural surroundings. Most holes are isolated so that the only sounds come from the songs of the many desert birds that live in the colorful seas of desert plants, Joshua trees, cacti and red, yellow, purple, orange, mauve and pink desert flowers that border each hole. There's much more than golf at Paiute: Relax, take a deep breath of the fresh desert air, and look around. Ducks dip in the many ponds at each of the courses, jack rabbits and chipmunks amble in and out of the brush, geese winter in the area, and bobcats and coyotes roam the valley.

For two-legged creature comforts -- refreshments, lunch, dinner or, for weddings, banquets or tournament receptions -- there's that award-winning clubhouse with a central skylight in its towering foyer, a long marble bar (with leather-padded stools), a separate smoking lounge, and huge banquet rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out on Snow Mountain's lake-fronted 18th green, gleaming cross-cut fairways and the ever-present mountains.

The Wolf Course, which opened in November 2001, plays 7,604 yards with an over-the-top rating/slope of 76.3/149; but with five sets of tees it's playable for all. As befitting its dimensions, the course can boast two signature holes.

No. 8 is a par 3 playing 206 yards. A giant wolf print of sand bunkers catches shots short and right, and shots long and right will roll down off the green 25-30 feet into a large waste bunker. The par-3 15th plays to an island green similar to Dye's famed 17th at the TPC at Sawgrass. Wolf's 15th green is bigger, but from the back tees to a back pin the hole can play 200 yards. From the middle tees, it plays just a teeth-grinding 138. The key is to play the proper set of tees. If the wind is huffing, this course can leave a player howling like a you-know-what.

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