Paiute Golf Resort, Wolf Course
Las Vegas Paiute Resort is a 54-hole golf facility located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The facility has three 18-hole championship courses, Wolf Course, Sun Mountain, and Snow Mountain.
Wolf Course
The longest course in Nevada.
The newest and most-difficult layout challenges the long ball hitters at 7,604 total yards. This is the longest course in Nevada. It promises an amazing golf experience, thanks to its length, the beauty of its natural desert surroundings, and its stunning island green on the fifteenth hole. Annika Sorenstam and Karrie Webb officially opened the course by competing in Shell's Wonderful World of Golf and shot 65 and 64 respectively. Golfers of all skill levels can come and try to take a bite out of the infamous WOLF by tempering the challenge with five tee options at various yardages.
Sun Mountain
Shining at 7,112 total yards is the tamest of the courses, but the holes are every bit as good. A kinder, gentler Dye design, it's depicted by natural rolling terrain and enchanting scenery. Many golfers hail the Sun as their favorite because they feel like they are on the edge of nature due to the location of the course being completely away from the resort's interior. The 12th is brilliant even on a cloudy day because of the monstrous mountain backdrop, indigenous desert landscape, and sweeping slope changes, which will advise a player to think before swinging. Golfers will warm to the experience on the Sun since the course also offers four tee options.
Snow Mountain
Paiute's original course, storms in at 7,164 total yards, it has wide ryegrass fairways, seven holes with water hazards, and a progressive layout, meaning there are no parallel fairways. Featuring traditional Dye railroad tie-decorated bunkers and dogleg finishing holes. Some golfers still feel the original is the best of the three. The 16th, a par 3, is a delight and the 18th, which flanks the Clubhouse, presents a welcomed challenge with water hazards and compelling yardage. Various skill levels will feel the comfort that comes with the Snow since the course has four tee options.
This course has been reviewed 1 time
Day 10 - 100 days, 100 courses (Saturday, March 23, 2019)
Last week, I was speaking with Kevin Hyland of TeeOff by the PGA Tour, and he informed me that Paiute was the best course that I would play on during my tour. Now that is a bold statement given some of the courses that are on the list: TPC Sawgrass, Coyote Springs, Maderas, I could go on and on, but there are a lot of nice courses on the list.
Paiute is in the desert north of Las Vegas. You drive and drive and see nothing resembling a golf course.
About a mile out you start to see glimpses of fairways carved into the rocks and scrubs and then you finally see the clubhouse above. When you walk into the clubhouse, you see out the back glass wall something special.
No matter what direction you look there are mountains that are awe-inspiring. The course is carved out of this desert valley. There is fairway, then maybe 10 - 40 feet of rough and then rocky desert. If your ball leaves the rough, it's gone! Golf balls and desert rocks look a lot alike.
And what is it with Pete Dye and island greens. I am beginning to believe that he got paid by golf ball manufacturers (I'm looking at you Callaway) to build these things just so we all would use more balls. (Yes, Don, I lost 2 Tin Cup style).
However, the most intimidating thing about Paiute Golf Resort was the wind.
We teed off on number 1 directly into the wind and quickly learned to adjust to the wind coming right at you. However, when there was a 30 MPH crosswind like we had on the island green, it was hard to adjust for the wind.
All in all, it was a very fun and challenging day.
