A short drive from the famed Las Vegas Strip, your undisturbed golf oasis awaits.
In recent years, there’s been much talk about the beauty and playability of America’s native-owned golf courses, often designed by the sport’s leading architects. There are now over 70 courses built on land owned and operated by Native American tribes, the idea being that they generate jobs and revenue without devastating the land – for invariably, the land they’re built on is stunning, rugged, and untouched.
This is certainly the case at the Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort, an oasis in the Nevada desert, just 25 minutes from Sin City’s infamous Strip. It is owned by the Las Vegas tribe of Paiute Indians and was built by World Golf Hall of Fame Inductee Pete Dye, the visionary architect behind seminal courses such as Kiawah Island, Whistling Straits, and The Honors Course.
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Inspired by landscape, Dye built three golf courses here (the only ones with his imprint in the whole of Nevada), beginning in 1995 with Snow Mountain, followed by Sun Mountain and the signature – noticeably trickier – Wolf course, which at 7,600 yards, is the longest of its kind in the state. The ‘Vegas Trifecta,’ as they’re sometimes known, marked the first multi-course resort to be built on Native land.
The Paiute experience is as much about the contrasting landscapes as it is Dye’s risk-and-reward challenges. Beautiful fresh fairways and bright zippy greens feel alive against the arid backdrop, and in the distance, the snow-capped Spring Mountains at Charleston Peak only add to the drama. This might be as close to playing a round on Mars as you’re likely to come. The sense of remoteness is accentuated by the fact that, apart from the award-winning clubhouse which serves food daily, there’s not another building for as far as the eye can see.
The highlight of the resort is the 15th hole on the Wolf course, a replica of Dye’s masterpiece, the legendary Island Hole at TPC Sawgrass – arguably the most memorable hole in all of professional golf.
“The interesting aspect of the Paiute courses is that you could separate them from each other, take them onto a piece of land 100 miles away from each other, and you’d never know they were designed by the same person,” Dye once said. “No two holes are alike over the course of all 54 holes, and none of the holes really resemble anything I’ve done anywhere else in the world. As far as challenges, the land wasn’t necessarily spectacular in any way, shape or form, but the long-range views of the surrounding hills and mountains were. So the challenge was to create holes with challenging shot values for different types of golfers.” Safe to say, he managed that and some.
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