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| - Yesterday, two co-workers and I got $18 tee times at Desert Rose, which we had deemed a steal. We'd never been, but I knew that it was the oldest course in Las Vegas. It's also in a dire state of emergency; frankly I'm surprised it's still operating. I live on the east side near UNLV, which is no utopian paradise by any means. So when I say that the neighborhood surrounding the course is sketchy, I mean bombed out and on the verge of being condemned. There were more boarded-up houses on the entrance road than I could easily count. Somewhere around the 7th hole a kid in a neighboring house was yelling at us while we were teeing-off in an attempt to distract us. I believe it was the 16th hole where a gentleman in front of us intentionally drove a ball into another neigboring house (we assumed for similar circumstances). And, not sure which hole it was where someone had their home stereo cranked to 11 blasting some sort of favela crunk.
Enough of the fun stuff, let's talk about the course: There is a dry wash that cuts through Desert Rose, which is literally a trash dumping site. See my photos. This starts at the first hole, and continues through most of the course. There is also a creek with actual water running through it (a flowing trash heap), and dozens of ducks hanging around the first two holes (duck crap covers the greens). The fairways have a 20-foot wide swath of live grass leading up to the greens, everything else is brown, dead, dusty mess. My bag literally emanated a dust cloud when I smacked it at the end of the day. There are two areas where the golf cart goes through concrete flash flood sewer areas covered with grafitti. It looks and feels like the inspiration behind a Red Hot Chili Peppers song.
There are two holes where the signs have been stolen, most of the bunkers don't have rakes either (assumed they were also stolen). I believe it was the 13th or 14th hole that was literally a construction site (tractors, caution tape, sewer pipes) which required driving the cart "off road" into the drainage ditch. One bonus was that whenever I sliced and lost a ball in the drainage ditch abyss, I usually found 2-3 other lost balls to replace it. We chatted with an older gentleman looking for his ball on the other side of the ditch; he said "I think it may have landed in this trash heap". When was the last time you said that at a golf course?
Onto the positive part of the review. The clubhouse was fairly comfortable, had some great deals on gear (we bought some balls and tees), and had great food in my opinion. The bartender/server was professional and attentive. I'm a fan of "vintage Vegas" which is why I wanted to try this course (I also want to try National; I hope it's better) but in this case it's fallen into neglect. For another 10-12 bucks you can find tee-times at Boulder City muni or an exec course like Desert Willow.
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