Desert Pines Golf Club

Desert Pines Golf Club operates on a piece of Las Vegas, Nevada near-downtown land. The course is one of the more unusual Las Vegas Valley routings — the property was designed as a Pinehurst-style course transplanted to the Las Vegas desert, with thousands of pine trees imported and planted alongside the fairway corridors to produce a distinctly non-desert visual identity. The pine trees and the irrigated bermuda fairways combine to give the property a Southeastern-style appearance unlike any other Las Vegas-area course.

The course plays around 6,800 yards par 71 from the back markers, with bermuda fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The yardage is moderate by modern standards, and the routing's defense is the pine-tree corridor narrowness and the green complexes set on natural rises. The fairways play firm given the Las Vegas Valley desert subsoil that drains quickly. The fifteenth hole is a 432-yard par-4 with a tee shot played through a pine corridor; the seventeenth, a 195-yard par-3 across a natural pond, is the routing's most-discussed one-shotter.

Desert Pines Golf Club is open to public daily-fee play at moderate rates by Las Vegas destination standards. The hospitality model is built around the public-access experience, and the property's unusual non-desert visual identity gives visitors a different Las Vegas-area golf experience.

Las Vegas desert climate gives Desert Pines 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 imported pine canopy requires significant water — one of the long-running discussions about the property's environmental sustainability in the desert setting.