wynn golf course is the answer to golfing on the strip - by Mike

Wynn Golf Course

Wynn Golf Course is the second golf course Steve Wynn has built with that hotshot designer, Tom Fazio. The first course was the award-winning, elite Shadow Creek Golf Course, which is now part of MGM properties. Both courses are picture book designed with waterfall, rivers and lake. If money is a worry, check out our pages on discount golfing. Wynn does everything in grand style and his latest golf course is top notch.

Photo taken from the Wynn Towers of hole 18 of the Wynn Golf Course with its giant waterfall, rivers and lake. The course is over 1 mile wide. It feels like one is golfing in Colorado, not on the Strip in Las Vegas.

To golf at Wynn, you must be staying at the Wynn Hotel and Casino, or be the guest of a hotel guest. Wynn rarely waves this requirement; you can try during the middle of the week, maybe you'll get lucky and get on the course. Fees are expensive unless you have been comped. To get comped you must be a VIP, or gamble a lot. Golfers who don't want to pay these prices will have to golf off-Strip. Try highly-rated Paiute Golf Course; it's about 35 minutes from the Strip.

Wynn Golf Course is 18 holes and covers 138 acres. There are 11 holes with water. It's over 7,000 yards from the tips. To create dramatic elevation changes, over 800,000 cubic yards of dirt was moved around. Wynn course is a par-70 with slope rating of 124. The greens are planted with Penn Links Bentgrass made to USGA specifications. Tifway II Hybrid Bermuda grass covers the fairways. 6,000 trees were brought in from North Carolina to make this course fully tree lined and private. The Wynn Golf Course was completed in 2005.

There are actually 2 golf courses on the Strip. The other is Bali Hai Golf Club. It sits at the other end of the Strip, and is a paradise with a whopping 7 acres of water and over 10,000 tropical plants. There is one more course just off the Strip near Bali Hai; it's called Callaway Golf Center. It is a 9-hole course that is good for practice and convenient. It also has a golf school, Giant Academy, for affordable golf lessons of every kind, from video to pro.

Steve Wynn has tournaments that are televised. They go by names like The Ultimate Game at Wynn Las Vegas. Keeping in the bigger than life Steve Wynn style, the payout was $2 million dollars. That is a greater payout than the U.S. Open, The Masters, The British Open or the PGA Tournament. Ultimate Game was open to any male or female golfer who has never been a fully-exempt member of the PGA European Tour, Champions Tour, PGA TOUR, or Nationwide Tour. The entry fee was a cool $50,000 per golfer. Steve Wynn knows the value of his Wynn Golf Course.