TPC Summerlin

Bobby Weed designed TPC Summerlin in 1991 on a piece of Las Vegas, Nevada desert land at the western edge of the Summerlin master-planned community. The PGA Tour built the course as part of the TPC network's desert expansion through the early 1990s, and the Shriners Children's Open (formerly the Las Vegas Invitational, then the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open) has been played at TPC Summerlin every October since 1992 with one detour to TPC Las Vegas. The host relationship is one of the longest continuous PGA Tour venues in the desert Southwest.

The course plays around 7,255 yards par 71 from the championship markers, with bermuda fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. Weed routed the eighteen holes through the natural Sonoran-edge desert with the Red Rock Canyon foothills visible to the west. Tour scoring averages run low at TPC Summerlin — winning totals in the high teens under par are typical — because the desert air and the Tour Championship-rotation green speeds produce conditions that favor aggressive play. The seventeenth hole is a 510-yard par-5 that plays reachable in two for most of the field; the eighteenth, a 446-yard par-4 with a green set against a desert ridge, has decided multiple Shriners editions.

TPC Summerlin is open to public daily-fee play at premium rates with PGA Tour-affiliated discounts. The Shriners Children's Open week (October) keeps the course in continuous tournament-readiness. The Las Vegas Strip is twenty minutes east of the property, which gives the venue a different visitor demographic from the more remote Tour stops.

Las Vegas desert climate gives TPC Summerlin a playing season of October through May, with the firmest conditions in March and April. Summer afternoons routinely exceed 105°F and the course operates on shortened seasonal hours through June, July, August, and September. The October tournament window puts the Shriners at the start of the prime desert golf season every year.