Painted Desert Golf Club

Context…

1 handicap and I’ve played golf all over the world.

Greens, good pace but BUMPY and unhealthy.

Every hole looks the same. Not much personality to the course outside of a couple holes with water.

PACE OF PLAY, WOW! If you want to spend 5.5 hours with someone and get to know their life story, this is the place for you!

With so many options in the Vegas area for similarly priced greens fees, this isn’t one you should add to your rotation.

Common theme across las vegas arcis managed courses is poor pace. Its a shame that there will never be an improvement of pace. Why???

1. Profit comes first

2. Pace improvements conflict revenue goal

3. Reactive not proactive

4. Competitive pressure not strong

Fact is that arcis has the local las vegas economy by the throat, and they don't have to change. If every golfer who plays low cost courses decided to take their business for a month to aliante, the club at sunrise, durango hills, north las vegas municipal, stallion mountain, or desert willow.... perhaps they would implement change.

Brutal truth:

The Arcis group operates as a for-profit business, and improving pace-of-play is only a priority if it directly impacts their bottom line. Unless golfers demand changes—either by providing feedback, leaving negative reviews, or playing elsewhere—significant improvements are unlikely. The unfortunate truth is that as long as courses remain profitable, pace-of-play issues will likely remain secondary to revenue generation.

Complain all you want but nothing sparks change for businesses like a loss of revenue.

Common theme across las vegas arcis managed courses is poor pace. Its a shame that there will never be an improvement of pace. Why???

1. Profit comes first

2. Pace improvements conflict revenue goal

3. Reactive not proactive

4. Competitive pressure not strong

Fact is that arcis has the local las vegas economy by the throat, and they don't have to change. If every golfer who plays low cost courses decided to take their business for a month to aliante, the club at sunrise, durango hills, north las vegas municipal, stallion mountain, or desert willow.... perhaps they would implement change.

Brutal truth:

The Arcis group operates as a for-profit business, and improving pace-of-play is only a priority if it directly impacts their bottom line. Unless golfers demand changes—either by providing feedback, leaving negative reviews, or playing elsewhere—significant improvements are unlikely. The unfortunate truth is that as long as courses remain profitable, pace-of-play issues will likely remain secondary to revenue generation.

Complain all you want but nothing sparks change for businesses like a loss of revenue.

If I could give 0 stars when it comes to pace.of play, course condition and not well managed, definitely would do so. Played this course many times over the course of past years, but the last 2 outings have been very bad. From start to finish (at 9 holes), first they say they had "frost on the ground" so started late (30+min) this is Las Vegas and it doesn't frost anywhere here unless is below 32 degrees not at 45 or 50 degrees, so first bad excuse. Then started, and course conditions are really bad, painted fairways and greens are worst than my fake green grass in my house. Then we get to pace of play, 3.5hrs to get around the first 9 holes, absolutely unacceptable. So I went to the pro shop to let them know of my concerns, and all I got was a "we are sorry"...really? I am sure I wasn't the only player that said something, and all you do is say sorry. No complementary rain check for at least range balls!!!

And to add, the range mats need replacement badly, and let players hit from grass.

Needless to say, very bad experience, back to back, will not be back until real changes happen. Fire the manager and get a new one, this was ridiculous.

What a great track had a hole in one on number four. Associate inside to hooked me up with a towel and ball mark at cost. Really happy with the service and overall experience thank you

First time we played we didn't finish because they had put a big group ahead and we were 6 hours late on the 12th when the sun went down. No concessions or apologies offered.

The second time went better, under 5 hours. However, many of.the greens were unplayable due to poor agronomy. One temp green. That's reasonable given the time of year, but the course is just average...waste of water hazards is an example of the over wrought pretensions. Poor practice facilities, no chipping.area, worn carpet for driving range. Staff wasn't exactly hostile, but not really engaging either. I noticed that we had to wait a couple.of times to be addressed while they talked to each other. No noticeable ranger to maintain pace of play.

The track is challenging but fair and this could be a really fun course if there was a little more attention to the details. Again, just played it twice a year apart, but again this was the least enjoyable experience.

Took 45 min to complete the 1st 2 holes. Never saw the Marshall. Called the shop to ask if someone could speed up pace of play and got an ok. Again, never saw the Marshall. Took 4 hours to play 12 holes. So we packed up and left. Wouldn’t recommend to anyone.

Hour delay for frost was a bummer. Pace of play was to be expected slow after that. Overall great day, first visit for my group and I over here in summerlin area. Will be back.

For a course in the desert, very green. Good greens, with one temp. at the time of playing.

Free range balls and good carts.

Would recommend.

The greens looked like wasn’t recently mowed but was surprised how fast the greens were. You really have to pay attention to reading the greens. First time playing a couse in a desert environment. Very pretty.

This course has an excellent layout and the location is great! Course conditions were passable, this could be a great course if the grounds were in better condition.

Course is good, needs a good mowing grass is long throughout from tee to greens. Greens were as long as fairways. Definitely need a marshal. Group ahead of us wouldn’t let a single play through. We ended up skipping a hole to get ahead of them on the back nine or we weren’t gonna finish before dark. Nobody ahead of them. We finished just in time

This course is way, way overpriced. Beautiful layout but extremely poor condition. The conditions warrant a 18 hole with cart at about $40 to $50. And that might be pushing it! Sorry. Sometimes you have say what needs saying. New course management???