Aliante Golf Course

Pros: nice design and layout with unique holes; Nice desert features including lots of arroyos/dry washes/pines/desert plants; greens/bunkers/tees/ in very good condition; played 18 holes in 3.5 hours on a Sunday; spectacular mountain views including Spring/Sheep/Frenchmen mountain ranges; decent restaurant with great mountain views.

Cons: staff not very friendly; waited 1/2 hour past tee time to get a golf cart -- apparently they're short on carts?!?!?; grass that isn't greens/greenside areas/tees is dormant (yellowish green) and hard packed -- like hitting off dirt.

Highlights are the greens and greenside bunkering -- very nice!

If this course was in pristine condition, I'd rate it 8.5+ on scale of 10. Because of conditions, maybe a 6.5.

I was pleasantly surprised by this course, would play it again, and recommend it.

Beautiful Mountain Views, fairways in rough shape need to be reseeded, greens in excellent shape & fast, love the layout of the course.

The mix of rye and dormant bermuda on the fairways takes a bit of getting used to after some of the other courses that have a more generously-watered species of grass. The conditions favour low tee shots because you will get a lot of roll, including into trouble. The greens are excellent and roll very truly. Also appreciated the drinking water that is available approx. half-way through each nine.

Really fun and challenging course, but 6 hours are not acceptable!

This is a municipal course, which is well maintained, except for the amount of golf carts that are inoperable. This cart issue creates a problem when the course is pretty busy. The staff are super friendly and helpful; very professional dealing with the carts problem. Will recommend it to friends and will play again, there!

This course is nice and challenging at the same. Greens are in a perfect condition and so the fairways.

Only bad thing! It was a 6 hour round!!!! Not acceptable!!!

Staff was great, friendly and helpful. Course is straightforward, what you see is what you get. No gimmicky holes, and only two blind hazards. Greens were is good shape, fairways were in good shape too, but the tee boxes could use some love. The driving range hitting positions need to change a bit more often too. I never had as bad a lie on the course as I had on the range. There was obviously a very slow group somewhere just in front of us because we did a lot of waiting, but in fairness it is a municipal course and we played on a Saturday morning. The value for the price is excellent.

Not a 5 star course but well maintained and friendly staffs. Would play again.

The course was in good shape. On this day, we were a twosome and completed the round in under 3 1/2 hours.

Took 32 minutes to play the first hole. Had a foursome in front of us . They were playing from the tips and the best score that we saw was at least a 10. Left after one hole and informed the golf shop and they did not appear to care.

I had a Hot Deal to play this course last Friday. Check in was easy. The problem started when We went to get the cart. My son is from Florida and uses the exact same clubs I do. I had told him to just use mine instead of flying his out to Las Vegas. The person running the carts said we could not share a set. He said it would affect the " pace of play". I must have heard this a dozen times in the next ten minutes. I explained we were ridding together and the cart was always going to be at the golfers ball. We have done this before at other courses and it has never been a problem. They said we would slow down the pace of play. Finally I rented my son a set for $45. My son never used the clubs, always using mine.

It took two hours and fifty minutes to play the back nine which is where they were starting that day. One seven of the nine holes the group in front of us was still teeing off. We had to wait on every shot. It was so bad we gave us after nine holes. I returned the rental clubs, telling the pro shop all about their precious "pace of play". I told them to take my $45 and put it towards a Marshall, which they are in dire need of.

Some comments on the course...They had punched the front nine greens the day before which is why they started us on the back. They had punched and sanded the back nine last week. But the greens rolled ok. and the greens held shots well. The tees were very shaggy, looking like they had over seeded recently. Fairways were in fair condition, patchy in some spots. The sand traps are awful, lacking good sand. The layout was interesting. A nice variety of hole distances. I thought it was actually a nice design - at least on the back nine which we played. Can talk about the front nine since I didn't want to spend the rest of the day there.

Las Vegas is terribly expensive for visitors, with locals generally paying less than half the visitor rates. For $45 the course was fine. I think it is worth up to $75. But I would NEVER play a course that does not make any attempt to keep a decent "pace of play".

This used to be a great golf course. I think it was a Troon course. Now there is little grass in the fairways and sand for greens. The city really needs to sell it to someone who wants to take care of it.

Had to play back 9 twice as front nine greens were being sanded. Back 9 greens sanded recently but still rolled ok. Fairways are just starting to go dormant so not as green just a week ago. Tee boxes needed mowing. Pace started to slow on second round of back 9, but no complaints since the weather was so nice and terrific views.

Was not told that back nine closed for maint. until we talked to starter. Played front 9 twice. Drove from San Diego area expecting to play full 18. Just would have liked to received a heads-up from GolfNow or have it posted on course website.