MGM Resorts Increases Shadow Creek Greens Fee On Most Expensive Public Course
MGM Resorts just made the nation’s most expensive and scoop public golf course fifty-fifty pricier.
MGM, Las Vegas’ largest gambling casino operator, recently unveiled new rates for its prestigious Shadow Creek Golf Course. An 18-hole around of golf now costs a mind-blowing $1,000. That rank is for the crown season, which is Mar to May, plus October and November. Off-peak rates are $750.
Shadow Creek’s greens fee is easily the to the highest degree expensive of any public course of action inwards the US. Pebble Beach is a distant endorse at $575.
Designed past golf architect Tom Fazio and built at a be of $60 million, Shadow Creek was completed in 1990. It was originally the personal golf course of instruction of billionaire Steve Wynn, who entertained his friends and celebrities at the venue.
MGM acquired the course of instruction when it paid $4.4 billion for Wynn’s Mirage Resorts inwards 2000.
Out of the Shadows
Shadow Creek has long been known past golf aficionados. But for the cursory weekend hacker, the famed land site certainly didn’t amount with the notoriety of, say, Pebble Beach, Bethpage, Torrey Pines, TPC Sawgrass, or Pinehurst. That changed inward the strike of 2018 when superstars — and longtime rivals — Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods squared cancelled inwards “The Match” at Shadow Creek.
The pay-per-view case was a winner-take-all $9 zillion jibe between the legends. While Woods was the betting favorite at -200, Mickelson prevailed inwards special holes.
Shadow Creek was pose inward the national spot during the event, and MGM has since opened upwardly the row to other premiere tournaments. Last October, Shadow Creek hosted the CJ Cup, a PGA Tour case scheduled for Jeju Island, South Korea, but was played in the US because of COVID-19.
Shadow Creek to boot was the land site of the LPGA Tour’s Bank of Hope Match-Play inward May.
Vegas Golf
For many Las Vegas visitors, a round off of golf game is just now as life-sustaining to a outstanding see as spinning a expansion slot machine or playing a few hands at a cosh table. And Southern Silver State has tracks to suit of clothes every golfer’s budget.
To get under one's skin on Shadow Creek, I must stay at an MGM Resorts property. The $1,000 fee includes roundtrip limousine transportation from the Strip to the course, which is set some 10 miles compass north of MGM’s Bellagio and MGM Grand.
Las Vegas’ second-most expensive is the Wynn Golf Club. Located conveniently behind Wynn Las Vegas and Encore, a troll goes for $550. The class was also intentional by Fazio. Guests at the II Wynn properties tin can rule book tee times 90 years in advance. Those not staying at Wynn tin volume times 30 days out.
Cheaper options include Bali Hai Golf Club, which can buoy be played for rough $100 to $170. The Jack Nicklaus-designed Bear’s Charles Herbert Best Golf Club is another affordable choice that ranges from $100 to $250 per round.