Painted Desert Golf Club

The greens were excellent, the fairways were generous and the only place to lose a ball was in the water, It is your typical desert golf course with 150-200 yard carry off the tee and after that the course was a lot of fun to play. We had excellent weather and the par 4's are very reachable in 2 without driving the ball a mile. If you like smooth, fast greens...this is the place.

We can always get a good price at this course and it is in consistently great shape. Staff is friendly and layout can be challenging.

Course presents a challenge with trees, bunkers and contour. Well defined targets and places to avoid. Great turf conditions and smooth, constant green which had accepting texture.

Staff were friendly and informative

A little tighter layout than most we have played. Well bunkered. Interesting water holes. Fairways and greens in good shape as well as bunkers had good sand but previous players didn't care to rake so lots of man made trouble. Staff was welcoming and helpful.

Two groups combined ahead of us to form a five some. They were rude and slow. They actually drove a golf cart onto the green. I told the drink cart lady and she said she'd let the pro shop know. No one came and we never saw a Marshall all day. Don't waste your time and money playing this course. All the other courses are much better.

As described by others ---

1) Very Good Design

2) Fairway Maintenance below average

3) Bunker and Rough below average

4) Greens aren't well cut ... resulting in a bumpy

surface and below avg. speed.

5) Setting is very pleasant

6) I saw No Marshal or Beverage Cart

This course needs some attention it's certainly not worth 73$ the layout is good but the condition is poor!

OK so get out of the cold in Colorado to play some golf as well as some business in Vegas. Stayed up north so wanted something close to my AIRBNB place. Came across Painted Desert and a very good resort rate at 2pm. I knew it would be tight to get in 18 but expected more than 8 holes! Every hole was back up with 3 groups on it. No ranger in sight to move things along. When I drove in after 8 holes in disgust and mentioned it to the starter he just tried to kill me with condescending niceness. This course just packs them in for $$$ no time between groups. I will never go back nor do I think anyone should. Staff is confused and misguided on customer service.

Played this course last minute decision. Excellent layout just a short drive from the Strip. Greens were a little hard and fast, making approach shots tricky. Very good condition.

Great place to play if all the Big Name Resort courses are busy.

We were on a golf trip to Vegas for a week. 5 rounds in 6 days. Painted Desert was our last round and by far the worst.

We played 13 holes in 3 hours 40 minutes. As there 2 groups on the 14th tee we figured it would take about 1 1/2 hours to finish which would be a 5 hour 10 min round. We drove in.

On our way in we noticed a 5 ball playing the 17th. This may have had something to do with the slow play!

I went to the pro shop and told the gentleman in there about our experience and his comments were;

1) we don't have a marshal, 2) golfers should know how to keep up with the group in front and 3 we don't allow 5 balls. Ummm!

There are far better courses in Vegas to play than Painted Desert and cheaper. We wont be back here!

For years, Painted Desert has rightfully claim to have the best public greens in Las Vegas. I now believe that is no longer true. The greens are good, not great. However my biggest issue was pace of play. Any round that goes over five hours is tooooo long. I won't be going back. And, I have played this course at least 50 times in the past.

GREENS WERE VG, TRAPS OK SOME NOT RACKED, HARD PACKED, TEE BOXES VG, FAIRWAYS GOOD,

The golf course it self was great. The pace of play was beyound ridiculous. Gave it 1 star because there was negative numbers available. 6 hours is not acceptable.

Greens, fairways, and tees were in excellent condition. Nice value for the money. Needed rental clubs which were very nice clubs. Would play again.

Last time I had played Painted Desert was sometime in the late 1990s. At that time, the course was owned by American Golf, a company notorious for keeping greens fees high and course maintenance investments low. Now that it is no longer owned by American Golf, I was curious if the new owners would give the course would show the course some more loving.

And the answer is.......not really. Fairways were in decent shape, but the rough left a lot to be desired (and there isn't that much rough to take care of!). Greens, as they used to be, were slow and a little bumpy (lots of dead spots, but at least less poa annua than during the American Golf days). Bunkers were chock full of pebbles (as if your clubs won't already get scratched up from all the desert shots you will most likely play) and could use a lot of work.

The course design itself has always been challenging - tight fairways, very little rough to catch errant drives, and lots and lots of desert on either side of the grass, followed by O.B. every hole (and caution - all the fences are rod iron fences with gaps in the bottom for balls to roll through once they take squirrely hops on the desert). The course will test your accuracy and patience in ball striking.

We started 35 minutes late and the round took over 5 hours to complete. the greens were slow and there was pebbles in the "sand" traps.

Nice well laid out course of moderate difficulty. Many holes protected with a lot of sand both along the fairways and around the greens. Greens in excellent condition.

This course is a must play when in town or local. Great layout and great greens. It's in great shape and the staff is very helpful and friendly. I recommend playing here .