Mountain Falls Golf Course

I love Mountain Falls Golf Course. It's always in excellent condition, the layout is challenging, the people are extremely helpful and friendly, and the price is right. What else is there?

I like that the front and back were designed by two different companies - Jack Nicklaus' company designed the front, and Cal Olson designed the back. They play differently, and I like that since I play at Mountain Falls all the time.

The front is more wide open, but with fairway traps that are definitely in play. Avoid them and you have a much better chance at a good score, but the other great obstacle are the greens. I find it much harder to read putts on the front nine. There are also numerous tiered greens that make a two putt frequently difficult.

The back is just as difficult, but for completely different reasons. I have always thought it is easier to string pars on the front, but it's easier to make a birdie or two on the back. The back is much tighter and requires more accuracy off of the tee. If you stay in the fairway, however, you are rewarded with easier greens, overall. But the back also has, in my opinion, the two hardest holes, 12 and 14.

12, a par 4, is narrow off of the tee but you still want to hit a long drive because the approach is downhill to a shallow green. If you have to hit a long iron or more into the green it won't hold. To make things harder, the front right is protected by a difficult trap, and the left is spongy and your ball won't roll onto the green unless you are very lucky. Then the green itself is probably the most difficult on the back.

14 is a par 3 that has an elevated green, a deep bail out area to the right that requires incredible skill and/or luck to pitch out of (honestly, I usually putt it myself). Short there is a stream and rocks. Left is no bargain, the green doesn't hold well and it you have any hook on your shot you will see yourself hit the green, and then your ball ends up in the water. The only "safe" spot is long, the trap in the back is shallow and easy. Then to top it off, the green is difficult and different from the rest of the course.

Two pars on 12 and 14 is an achievement. Both are very capable of generating "others" on your scorecard.

That said, the thing to keep in mind on the back is the rest of the holes are all "gettable", but still challenging and interesting.

What a somewhat hidden gem; well worth the hour or so drive from the Las Vegas Strip. Overall, the course was in great shape with a nice variety of holes and exceptional greens. Fairly flat overall, but you still need to pay attention to club selection with the subtle elevation changes, especially on windy days. It was especially windy this day, but the course was still very playable. Staff was friendly and helpful.

Overall course was in great shape. Greens are 99% recovered from punching. They're a little spotty in appearance, but rolled true and with good consistent speed.

One of the best driving range and practice areas I've seen on a public course.

I almost deducted a star for the bunkers - they're basically hardpan and not sand traps. You should be able to ground your club and play them as bare dirt. My solution was to avoid them - only went in 2.

Only other potential deduct is overselling as a "mountain" course. It's just another high desert course in southern Nevada, with views of mountains. It is out of the city though.

Will definitely play again.

This is one of the best values for your money anywhere Nevada much less in United States from what I played beautiful course always a good deal on GolfNow beautiful setting friendly staff about an hour from Vegas worth the drive

Twice now in 2 weeks you have sent me to courses that had greens that were punched! That is information that should have been on your website! Don't know if I will be using your site again!! Terrible!!!

Course is in good condition and fun to play, but very slow. 5 hours to play and course Marshall does not help speed things up.

It was a very windy day, but we still had fun. The course is challenging and the views spectacular. Didn't have to worry about scoring well because the wind ripped our score card right out of our cart as we putted the second hole. Had a challenging day, but with a few good shots and I remember we both birdied the last hole. Life is good. I'll be back on a calm day.

Great course and well maintained! Would definitely recommend !

We Love this course. Always in great shape, greens are well maintained, course is well marshaled on busy days and layout is great.

Staff receives you with cart and instructions. The dining and bar are well priced and super good food. We always choose Mountain Falls as our first choice for value and conditions.

This course was one of the best courses I ever played well worth the drive from vegas

Nice layour in quieter desert area. Course had nice layout with the back nine having more bite as if is has more mature trees and water. Greens were in good shape but just a little slower than the norm. Ovreally a fun time on a very warm spring day.

Was one of the slowest rounds ever played, which really ruined what could be a great course.

The course was in pretty good shape. The greens had been top dressed a few days ago and were a bit slow.

The fairways were in great shape for the time of year.

The views were stunning.

one negative as that the driving range was being mowed so we couldn't warm up. Our tee time was 12.20. We couldn't figure out why it was being mowed at that time of the day!

It was about an hours drive from Las Vegas

I would go back and play it again

This is a destination trip. We drive to Pahrump just to play Mountain Falls

Course was in great shape and is a good challenging layout for both low handicap and novice golfers. The weather was perfect, which made it even more fun. Great view of Mt. Charleston and its snowcapped peak in October. All the pro-shop staff, cart-girl and starter were very friendly and welcoming. This course was well worth the hour drive from Vegas! Will definitely want to play it again.

Great course for all skill sets. 4 tee boxes provide for casual to low handicapper. Dining is 5 star with great sports tvs in the open bar. All staff are friendly, professional and happy to meet everyone. We stay in Vegas and make this easy 1 hour drive is very much worth our time for great golf and relaxation. We Recommend Mountain Falls to every golfer we know and meet. Thanks for providing a quality experience .

Winnnnnnndy!!! Even so, had a great round. Will play this course in the wind, rain, or snow.

This time of golf is 2nd time played. I liked very much first time here, but second time even better filling. I drove 300 miles for playing this course. next time i'm bring my freinds here next time.