Golf

Rhodes Ranch Golf Club Details

• Opened:
  1997.
• Course designed by:
  Ted Robinson.
• Course Management:
  Dunhill Homes.
• General Manager / Director of Golf:
  General manager: Tate Stull.
• Head golf professional:
  Shane Sanchez.
• Course Record:
  Ted Oh, 63.
• Tee Time Policy:
  Reservations are taken up to 60 days in advance. Group or tournament bookings may be made up to 120 days in advance. Rates vary from $55-$125. Green Fee includes golf cart and range balls.
  
  Dress code: Golf course strictly enforces proper attire including collared shirts and shorts or slacks. Clothing that is not appropriate includes: denim shorts, denim jeans, t-shirts, swimming attire, gym shorts, halter-tops, tank tops or cut-offs. Shoes with spikes must have non-metal spikes while on the course. Any participant who does not comply with the dress code policy will need to change into the proper attire or not be able to participate in the day's play.
  
  
• Course Map:
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Rhodes Ranch Golf Club Review

Rhodes Ranch Golf Club grabs players' attention at its gate and never lets go. Through the club's imperial archway (a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired design that matches the clubhouse), a glance right gives a good taste of things to come. Gaps in the rows of palm trees reveal lavish variations of desert landscaping, while a waterfall and pond shimmer to accent sand bunkers punctuating gently rolling green grass.

Rhodes Ranch looks great from every angle. It features traditional, all-grass golf holes that are always in immaculate condition. The staff members are as friendly as they come, and the overall golf value is second to none; VegasGolfer readers voted the course a 2002 Fairway Award for "Best Value."

More than 3,000 palm trees line the fairways of this Ted Robinson design that winds through the lush, tropical-paradise setting; and besides the waterfalls, ponds, creeks and finely contoured landscaping, other details really make the course special. The ninth and 18th holes, for example, can be seen from the clubhouse, a work of art all its own with its booth seating, leather-padded chairs, generous floor-to-ceiling windows and broad wrap-around deck. All render wonderful course and/or mountain views.

The par 72 plays 6,909 yards with a rating/slope of 73.0/122, while subsequent tees drop the distance to 6,405, 6,009 and 5,238 yards.

No matter the choice of tees, all players are sure to be fairly challenged by Rhodes Ranch par-3 holes, which course designer Ted Robinson -- whose Sahalee Country Club hosted the 1998 PGA Championship -- called the best set of 3's he has ever designed.

No. 3 plays 230 yards across water to a green bunkered front and back. There's bailout front left of the green, and like the whole course, the hole is set up to accommodate everyone: On subsequent forward tees, the water is reduced to a lateral hazard.

The 202-yard seventh hole is the only par 3 not over water, but the green is set diagonally between back bunkers, while trees encroach from the left. The 441-yard, par-4 18th is an excellent closer. The downhill tee shot sets up a mid- or long-iron approach to a green guarded by a stream that cascades down along its right side, and there's also a bunker left just above a pond.

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