Badlands Golf Club

Johnny Miller designed Badlands Golf Club in 1995 on a piece of Las Vegas, Nevada Summerlin-area desert land. Miller — the major championship winner of the 1973 U.S. Open and 1976 British Open — had developed course design as a second career through the 1990s, and Badlands represents one of his early architectural commissions. The course operates as a public-access daily-fee facility in the broader Las Vegas Valley golf landscape, distinct from the private and resort properties elsewhere in the region.

The course plays around 6,900 yards par 72 from the back markers, with bermuda fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. Miller routed the eighteen holes through natural Las Vegas Valley desert terrain with several holes playing across natural arroyos and desert washes. The fairways play firm given the Las Vegas Valley desert subsoil. The native Sonoran-Mojave transition zone desert outside the playing corridors gives the property visual signature consistent with the broader Las Vegas Valley landscape. The Red Rock Canyon foothills are visible to the west.

Badlands Golf Club is open to public daily-fee play at moderate rates by Las Vegas destination standards. The pricing has stayed accessible despite the architectural quality and the destination Las Vegas location. The hospitality model is built around the public-access experience.

Las Vegas desert climate gives Badlands a playing season of October through May, with the firmest conditions in February and March. Summer afternoons routinely exceed 105°F and the course operates on shortened seasonal hours through June, July, August, and September. The Red Rock Canyon backdrop gives the property its distinctive Western Las Vegas visual identity.