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| - In Vegas with a bunch of buddies for my bachelor party, and golf was on the agenda. After looking around at the options, we settled on Vegas National since it was close to the strip, not a half hour out of town, only $70 for the round (winter, Monday, 12:00 tee), and isn't some terrible muni with provisional greens.
I am am absolute hack, but one friend is a single digit handicap and the other shoots around 100 (our 4th couldn't rally from the drinking the day before). If you don't know, Tiger won his first PGA event here, and they filmed part of Casino on the course. With the Wynn way too much money, and Bali Hi still around $100, this is a nice option.
The fees included a cart and range balls, and the November Monday start meant that the place played like a country club. Only once did someone hit into us, and only once did we hit into another group. We played a very leisurely 4 1/2 hour round. The course is in good shape, not great, but no real problems. The fairways were thin in some areas, but water is a premium in Vegas. It is not a desert course, so the whole area is green with with lots of trees. The bunkers were hard and everything was fast, but again, what do you expect in the desert?
Some of the pin placements were tricky, but as a hack, I never felt like I was totally out of my depth, and my friend with the low handicap was challenged, though maybe more by rust than by anything else. Fairways are moderately narrow, but if you don't go too far left or right, you can recover. I had a great time, and will return if I am itching for another round in Sin City.
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