ParMates provides another option for hiring female forecaddies on Las Vegas golf vacations.
The editors of Golf Odyssey have been following a very important story regarding Las Vegas golf vacations.
A couple years back, they reported that the Rees Jones-designed Rio Secco Golf Club had put together a unique forecaddie corps called “T-Mates,” described as “intensively trained” female caddies whose other assets include being “fun, outgoing, physically fit, reliable, attractive, entertaining, and supportive.”
Well, about a year ago, T-Mates got some competition in the (female) form of “ParMates” at sister courses Bali Hai and Royal Links, and things are, um, really getting hot out there.
Warning: if you’re easily offended by seeing pictures of beautiful women in short skirts, you probably shouldn’t follow this link. Read more →
For now, Lake Las Vegas' Falls and Reflection Bay courses are off the menu for Las Vegas golf vacations.
Not sure if you’ve been following this story, but two of the best courses to play on Las Vegas golf vacations have shut their doors.
Lake Las Vegas Resort (lakelasvegas.com), which filed for bankruptcy protection in July of last year, first closed its spectacular Tom Weiskopf-designed Falls Course on January 30. Then, on June 30 of this year, it closed Reflection Bay, its memorable Jack Nicklaus design.
Will those with Lake Las Vegas golf vacations already booked or planned travel to the desert only to be left out in the cold? Read more →
The Chase at Coyote Springs is one of the Las Vegas golf courses that approximates the secluded feel of "The Big Three."
You probably know that some people pay upwards of $500 to play “The Big Three” Las Vegas golf courses at Shadow Creek, Cascata, and Wynn Golf Club.
What you might not know is that you can get a similar experience at other Las Vegas golf courses for a heck of a lot less. Read more →
There are deals to be had on Las Vegas golf courses such as Bali Hai, but choose wisely.
Do the stock market’s wild swings of late have you wondering if gambling in Las Vegas is a more effective investment vehicle? Well, now might be good time to find out.
Not only are Las Vegas airfare prices down by as much as 10-20 percent in some cases (thanks to the drop in fuel costs), but certain Las Vegas golf courses are wheeling and dealing, too. Just be careful not to get sucked in by the hype. Read more →
Q: I am taking a Las Vegas golf vacation in November with some frugal friends. We would like to find good Las Vegas Golf Courses to play with green fees between $100-$150 and lenient cancellation policies in case of bad weather. Any recommendations? Mark N., Cincinnati, Ohio
Black Mountain is one of a handful of Las Vegas golf courses to play if you're looking for value.
A: If your friends were fanatically frugal, they would have urged you to take your Las Vegas golf vacation during the summer months of June-September, when green fees at some Las Vegas golf courses drop by as much as half. Of course, you give some of that back with all the bottled water you have to buy just to stay alive.
Your budget of $100-$150 in November means you won’t be able to access the best Las Vegas golf courses, but there are some very good ones to be played at that price.
Our suggestions, which are all within a 30-minute drive from The Strip, include: Read more →
Primm Valley
Despite being located 30 minutes south of The Strip, the two layouts at Primm Valley Resort, the Desert Course and Lakes Course, are among the most popular to play on Las Vegas golf vacation.
Why? Well, as Tony Korologos states in his Hooked on Golf Blog review, it helps that “both courses at Primm Valley were designed by probably the most famous designer of our era, Tom Fazio.”
Also, at $200 on Fridays and Saturdays in high season, you can’t call these “cheap” Las Vegas golf courses, but they are a lot more reasonable than Bali Hai Golf Club and Wynn Golf Club on The Strip, and you get a significant break if you’re staying at the Primm Valley Resort. Read more →
Have you ever seen Loyal H. Chapman’s famous paintings of ultra-extreme golf holes, ones where a tiny green dangles hundreds of feet in the air on the edge of vertical cliff wall or across an unfathomable chasm amid the crashing water of a massive waterfall?
Well, if you want to see the closest, real-life representation of Chapman’s outlandish work, make a point of playing the Wolf Creek golf course on your next Las Vegas golf vacation. It’s located in Mesquite, Nevada, about 90 minutes northeast of Las Vegas near the Arizona border, but you could easily mistake it for Mars. Read more →
You can take in Timberlake's tournament on a Las Vegas golf vacation.
By now, you’ve probably read or heard plenty of funny reactions to the news that Justin Timberlake will be hosting the PGA Tour’s annual Las Vegas event, which, as of this year, became part of the tour’s Fall Series (a nice way of saying, “the tournaments that take place after the all-important FedEx Cup.”)
One of the funniest I read was Golfblogger’s take on it, framed as one of the “signs of the apocalypse” and backed up with a few lines from none other than Nostradamus. Read more →
