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FROM TEE TO SHINING TEE Where can a person swing his or her clubs this state? Pretty much everywhere: Nevada offers miles of fairways, some on desert courses, others in mountainous terrain, but always with unique Nevada twists. Start your golf tour in Las Vegas, where you have your choice of nearly 50 courses. Among those is the Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort, owned by the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe and home to the Wolf Course, the state’s longest at 7,604 yards. There’s also the Royal Links Golf Club, with holes inspired by 11 different British Open rotation courses, and the Tom Fazio-designed Shadow Creek, home of the Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational. Remember that Las Vegas is in the Mojave Desert, and here you’ll find many desert courses — links where the fairways are 38
green and narrow with a more natural rough. Sometimes you’ll be shooting over arroyos and across fairways, so no wild slices or hooks! About 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, on the Nevada-Utah border, is Mesquite, a town of around 15,500 people and nine golf courses. You can stay in Mesquite for week and play a different course every day. Not only does that make it a popular golf destination, it’s also the host of many national golf events, including the Mesquite Amateur and RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship. Travel north to the Carson City-Carson Valley area, just south of Reno, to take on the Divine 9, a group of courses nestled on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. Plush greens, rolling
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