Wynn Golf Club: A peaceful sanctuary along the Las Vegas Strip
LAS VEGAS -- At the Wynn Golf Club, everybody is treated like they just won big at the casino.
From the PGA Professionals who serve as caddies, to the immaculate playing conditions and superior service, the Wynn delivers a premium golf experience in the shadows of Wynn Las Vegas, Steve Wynn's mega luxury hotel-casino along the Strip. You'll feel lucky just for the chance to hit a shot off its lush carpeted fairways.
The Wynn emerged from old Desert Inn Golf Club on April 28, 2005, after Tom Fazio moved 800,000 cubic yards of dirt, transforming 137 flat acres into a plush reincarnation of rolling hills. The 7,042-yard, par-70 layout would look right at home in the North Carolina Sandhills. Although the bling of Vegas hotels and high rises surrounds the course, the round feels like an intimate retreat with every hole its own universe, thanks to immaculate landscaping and thousands of trees, roughly 1,200 of them leftover from the old course.
The green fee -- anywhere from $375 to $500 -- and the 15-minute intervals between tee times ensure privacy in chaotic Sin City. Seeing a $2 million cascading waterfall behind the 18th green ends the round with a bang. "There are a lot of things to stimulate you," said Director of Golf Brian Hawthorne.
Wynn Golf Club - hole 3
Water guards the right side of the third green at Wynn Golf Club in Las Vegas.
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Wynn Golf Club - hole 4
Check out the views of the Las Vegas strip on the fourth hole at Wynn Golf Club.
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Wynn Golf Club - hole 6
Wynn Golf Club's sixth is one of 12 holes featuring water.
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Wynn Golf Club - hole 7
The 535-yard seventh is one of two par 5s at Wynn Golf Club on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Wynn Golf Club - hole 8
Wynn Golf Club's par-4 eighth is the No. 1 handicap.
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Wynn Golf Club - hole 9
The ninth is the longest of the five par 3s at Wynn Golf Club, playing 238 yards.
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Wynn Golf Club - hole 10
The 10th hole is the hardest of Wynn Golf Club's two par 5s.
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Wynn golf course in Las Vegas - hole 15
The 212-yard 15th at Wynn Golf Club has water everywhere.
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Wynn G.C. in Las Vegas - hole 16
Wynn Golf Club's 16th plays uphill.
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Wynn Golf Club - hole 17
Encore, the second hotel/casino built by Steve Wynn, towers over the 17th green at Wynn Golf Club.
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Wynn Golf Club - hole 18
Wynn Golf Club's closing par 4 ends in spectacular fashion.
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