TPC Las Vegas

Bobby Weed designed TPC Las Vegas in 1996 on a piece of Summerlin, Nevada western Las Vegas Valley desert land — the second TPC network expansion in the Las Vegas region after TPC Summerlin opened in 1991. The course was built specifically as a Tour-rotation venue, and the Las Vegas Invitational (later the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals Open) rotated through TPC Las Vegas alongside TPC Summerlin during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Weed routed the eighteen holes through the natural desert terrain with the Red Rock Canyon foothills as the visual backdrop.

The course plays around 7,113 yards par 71 from the championship markers, with bermuda fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. Weed's signature throughout is the strategic-design principles that depend on tee-ball positioning given the desert exposure. The fifteenth hole is a 525-yard par-5 along a natural arroyo; the seventeenth, a 215-yard par-3 across a desert wash, is the routing's most-discussed one-shotter. The native desert outside the playing corridors is the architectural defense.

TPC Las Vegas is open to public daily-fee play at premium rates with PGA Tour-affiliated discounts through the TPC network. The hospitality model is built around the Las Vegas Strip destination — the property is twenty minutes east of the Strip, which gives the venue a different visitor demographic from the more remote Tour stops. Caddies are available; carts are standard for desert play.

Las Vegas desert climate gives TPC Las Vegas 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.