Golf

Tournament Players Club Las Vegas Details

• Opened:
  1996.
• Course designed by:
  Senior PGA Tour player Raymond Floyd and PGA Tour Design Services, architect, Bobby Weed.
• Course Management:
  N/A.
• General Manager / Director of Golf:
  Dan Hammell.
• Head golf professional:
  Todd Hajduk.
• Course Record:
  John Daly, Joel Edwards, Lee Janzen, Steve Jones, Craig Barlow, Dan Forsman, Jay Williamson, 62.
• Tee Time Policy:
  Reservations are accepted up to one year in advance. Rates vary from $175-$225 depending on season. 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:
  Click here.

Tournament Players Club Las Vegas Review

Ever wondered how your game would fare at an actual PGA Tour venue? Well, wonder no longer as the TPC Las Vegas gives you the chance to play where the pros play every day of the year. This rugged yet elegant desert classic is a perennial venue for the PGA Tour's annual stop in Las Vegas.

Designed by Bob Weed (the PGA's chief TPC architect in 1996) and the legendary Raymond Floyd, the course literally was dynamited from the desert rock. The result is dynamite: a natural, rugged look of striking contrasts as manicured turf meanders exquisitely along and over barrancas and arroyos and other native features. A theme of vivid contrast continues with views of pristine Red Rock Canyon juxtaposed with the glamorous Strip and its urban attractions glimmering to the south.

Up close, the course gives a sense that nature has been left as undisturbed as possible. Weed and Floyd incorporated the native wash areas and preserved the indigenous vegetation so that the course looks more natural than imposed. That kind of care has resulted in a superb aesthetic and even earned TPC a "Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary" award. Though built over several hundred acres, the course incorporates just 110 acres of irrigated land.

The layout plays tough, but it also looks so striking from every tee box -- all the rock framing the fairways glows golden brown and even red in certain slants of light -- that players can always appreciate the surrounding beauty no matter how they're playing. And the bentgrass greens and tees and wide Bermuda fairways are always meticulously maintained.

The real TPC test begins with the 196-yard, second hole. The dramatic par 3 plays down to a heart-shaped green braced along the canyon floor by a fieldstone wall. Dazzling variety lies ahead. The 365-yard, par-4 14th doglegs right, all along a canyon. The drive is hit blindly up over the canyon on a shelf above the tee. Players aim at a church steeple in the distance; one must have faith that there's a fairway up there. The green is long but shallow, and like the others, its angle, swales and subtle undulations require undivided attention.

Amenities include a 10th-tee snack shop, fine dining at The Grille in the stately clubhouse, an outdoor patio overlooking the 18th hole, luxurious banquet accommodations, a fully stocked golf shop and complete locker room facilities.

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