Played 3/1/22
I've played this highly enjoyable course dozens of times and am seldom disappointed. A few memorable holes, the 5th, 18th and 14th stand out with the par-3 14th offering a view over the entire Las Vegas Valley (hint: aim for the rough between the sand trap on the right and the green whenever the flag is not up front as the ball will always bounce left from there and the green slopes in that direction). The course is built close to the mountains on the West side, is around 3100 ft. higher than sea level and most holes are routed either uphill or down. Not much water to worry about, only on the 5th, 17th and 18th.
Winter grass is still in place, so the rough is yellow/dormant and very tight. This makes for a great surface to hit full shots from, but will challenge your short pitch/chipping skills if you miss the greens. Tee boxes are lush and fairly level. The sand is wonderful- they reworked the bunkers not too long ago and they're really top-notch- thick and fluffy.
The holes meander through the Sun City housing and the fairways are bordered with slopes going up to the houses so wayward shots, if not TOO severely off target will find their way back into the fairways. I had a tough day with my driver, but out of the 9 times I used it I landed in the rough with 7 drives and yet only missed 3 fairways. Soooo... super generous tee shots, no lost balls and a low scoring day that the 3 of us played in 3:40. Fun, fun, fun!
The greens were fast and VERY firm. Approch shots with a good 8 iron hit high still biunced and rolled 25 feet and I seldom found any ball mark. Makes for a long-lasting, good surface to putt on, as many in that retirement community can't be bothered to fix theirs.
There was only one knock, that is that some hole locations were put in very tough, if not just plain ridiculous locations, especially for the fast, hard greens. We walked off the 2nd hole after the 3 of us putted from 3 different directions from 15-25 feet away and all 3 balls turned at the hole and went down a severe slope leaving all of us within a foot of each other some 35 feet away. The first try going back uphill got to within 2 feet and then came all the way back and so we picked up and headed for the next hole. My approach with a sand wedge on #9 hit 11 feet from the hole, but I ended up with a 55 foot putt- because they had placed the flag on the top of a mound and I landed on the back of it, kangarooing off the surface. OK, I know, I know... a little cheese with my whine?
Anyway, great bunkers, nice fairways, only slightly bumpy greens... nice mix of holes. Recommended.

Played 9/26/21
Heartwell... the 18 hole par-3 course where Tiger learned as a child! Holes ranged from 70 to 140 yards this day, most of them in the 100-120 yard range. I played there quite a few times when I lived in Long Beach 20 years ago and was just starting to learn golf and it was fun to go back and reminisce. There's a tiny little chipping area, two good putting greens and a wide range that is also lit at night where you hit off of mats. If you want to use your driver, you need to bring your own rubber tee or buy one in the Pro Shop ($2). Even as an out-of-towner, my walking rate was only $21- a good walk and a lot of fun for the price!
It's still much the same as I remember, your typical muni course with large trees bordering the fairways and several different grasses interspersed throughout each hole. You're just as likely to be buried in 5" of wet greenery as you are to find a decent lie whenever you miss the putting surface. Sand traps looked undragged and basically packed, wet, muddy-looking sand. I completely shanked my only bunker shot, so I can't comment on the playability (yech!)... The greens this day looked like pressed mud and some tight greenery, with a few scruffy spots and the usual pock-marked unfixed ball marks, but actually putted just fine- in fact I had a hot putting day there, making 6 out of 7 from 5-8 feet. Not my usual 40% or so. Curiously, 4 of my 6 chips kicked sideways when they landed on the green. Go figure. Maybe I didn't read the landing spots well? Trust me, I don't have the skill to spin chips!
The one real drawback was the tee boxes. Just a rolled & pressed muddy surface with little clumps of pressed crabgrass all over them. Almost no grass at all, anywhere. I kept hitting sky-high balls off the tee short of my anticipated distance until it finally dawned on me that teeing my ball a little off the muddy surface was making me impact the ball a couple of grooves up the face of my wedges. Well whaddaya know... *slap my head*
I was paired up with a real nice gentleman named Mike this day and "returning to my roots" was an enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday when I couldn't find a tee time elsewhere in town.
Recommended for beginners, families with kids and people who want to practice hitting wedges off of tight, muddy lies (lol). But you know what? I still had a ball !

Played 9/17/21
This is a traditional "Muni"- a fine course for those just beginning and as long as you don't go over a border fence, you'll probably not ever lose a ball. Flat, tree-lined fairways and the greens are easy to read without too much slope and very few undulations. It's a well worn, but very playable track with variable mixed grasses everywhere. If you don't get behind a tree, you'll have straight forward shots to the green as the rough is usually not a factor other than getting a little reduced spin. Bunkers were crusty and packed down, but not bare, too rocky or overgrown. Getting out wasn't tough, but control... well, maybe I just need a better game in the sand.
Greens looked like crap, with bare mud and signs of intruding other grasses, BUT- they've rolled them very well to give you a quite decent surface, and only on #16 did we have putts actually bounce offline (3 of the 4 of us had 3-5 footers go airborne and change direction lol). If they could get them to be like the very nice practice green they would be darn nice!
I had no problem with the tee boxes, they are mowed fine and typical of a much-played muni course- except the #16 (again!) black tee box which was just rumpled up dirt. But hey, it was a Driver off the tee hole for us, so really no issue there.
Pace is a bit slower here as they allow walking and their wonderful senior rate ($26 for locals!) keeps the course full at all times with people out for a relaxed, fun day of golf. We played in 4 hours, 40 minutes. A few holdups early for 5 minutes or so, and three groups did stack up on the Par-3 6th, but we had great company with two other locals we were paired with, Jimmy and Donelle, to keep us from going flat and it moved pretty well after that.
Highly recommended for beginners, distance-challenged & recreational golfers... maybe not for those seeking a more "challenging course" or a resort golf experience.

9/15/21
Overseeding is completed and it's "cart path only" for right now while it all fills in for the Winter season. The fairways will leave mud on your ball most of the time (we played lift, clean & place) but the grass is coming along great and the greens are in fantastic shape- maybe the best I've ever seen them. Didn't take long for people to start skipping out on fixing their ball marks and strew their sunflower seed husks on them. Sick- nobody wants to pick up your spat out food droppings...c'mon people- show some consideration for everyone else. Kudos to the maintenance crew & staff- well done!
Details about the course can be found on previous reviews, in a nutshell: fun, interesting, fairly easy (wide fairways, rough only penal sometimes, a few forced carries over water or ravines, mostly on par-3s, and usually very good conditions.
Highly recommended for recreational golfers and they allow jeans and casual attire to be worn (good in Winter!)

NOTE: It's "that time of year" for golf courses throughout Las Vegas- the end of what was a brutally hot Summer and everyone is now prepping for the cooler months ahead. Finding an open course in great shape is next to impossible for recreational golfers at this time who don't want to spend $100s, so be prepared and patient wherever you play and by October we should have great golf throughout the valley again.
Red Rock is in fair shape (Sept. 3)- fairways crosscut in places, prepped for overseeding so you'll find mud on your ball on many fairway hits. We just lift, clean and place and enjoy our day. The greens were sanded and aerated on Sept. 1, so they should be nice again mid-month. Rough was damp and thick, which isn't too unusual for the Arroyo course, but several times we needed a couple of us helping each other to locate balls hit into the rough. Sand is still "iffy"- some bunkers OK, many others strewn with rocks and/or crusty throughout. This is the only consistent gripe about Red Rock Arroyo, as the rest of the course is usually a joy to play. Again, we cheat and just remove rocks or place the ball in a similar lie near the spot where we ended up in order to not ding up our clubfaces. Purists will sneer, but we're happy being casual golfers.
The course has survived the intensely hot Summer, unlike quite a few others in the valley that are hurting, and should be playing sweet again later this month. In the meantime, it's still a good choice compared to conditions I've encountered elsewhere.

Played 7/20/21. Being almost 70 and only hitting my drives about 220 these days, I play from the white tees to an 9 hdcp. Angel Park seems to be always in great shape (both courses). Today was no exception. It seems like the sand is fine now that the traps have been dragged (in the past we've had fits with thin sand over a concrete-like base leading to "drop-kicked" bunker shots flying over the green). Very nice! Fairways were sweet and I seldom hit into the the rough this time, but when I did it was very playable, even with my "old guy" diminished swing speed. Pace of play was excellent- 4 of us in just less than 4 hours. I only have 2 relatively small red flags for this course: the tee box on the par-3 #8 is horrendous. it's just a small mound, so of course everyone tees up at the crest to get the only level lie and as a result that small level teeing area is bare and gouged full of deep divots with no grass to play from. In my 20 years of playing and pointing it out on surveys for them they've still never leveled it out. Another sort of sketchy tee box is the short par-3 #12, which is built into a hillside and pretty severely sloped from right to left, so right-handers will tee off with the ball above their feet with a wedge- again, these are the white tee boxes and all the others are fine. Playing from the other tees you may find them all good!? The only other shake of the head is that Angel Park is known for people not fixing their ball marks on the greens, but unfortunately that's practically the norm here on West side courses... All in all, it's an easy and fun course, with few really challenging holes. There are a few short ones over water and a risk/reward split-fairway par-5 to make you think a bit and the course is almost always in great shape. Very much recommended for us recreational golfers!

Red Rock Arroyo is dependably in good condition, and even more so now (4/15/21) as I think this is as good as I've ever seen it! The layout is enjoyable, interesting, and on occasion, scenic as well. Use of the range is included, has good balls and you warm up hitting on grass. Nice! It's quite a drive to it from the clubhouse and also to the 1st tee, though, so allow a little more time for your prep.
The fairways are plenty wide enough and always green (except during overseeding, of course), and today was no exception. The rough is thick and lush, about 2 1/2 inches long, which means the ball will sit down but good contact and some extra distance allowance will still give decent results to us intermediate golfers with average swing speeds. Sometimes it gets longer and then we can have a difficult time finding our balls in it and it becomes a hack and slash to get out- but not today. Somewhat penal, especially when chipping around the green, but by no means unfairly so.
Tee boxes were fine and the greens were really, really nice. Typically, Red Rock Arroyo is pretty fast and it's difficult to hole out because shorter putts will easily wander offline on the subtle slopes and imperfections around the holes, but I think the medium speed we mere mortals encountered today was a delight. I never had anything veer offline and our regular group didn't have to putt as defensively as usual. The usual ball marks pepper the greens, as they're nice and responsive to approach shots- but they exist from uncaring players, not an uncaring staff. I'll try to fix a few when I'm waiting to putt.
All the bunkers we were in had been recently dragged and filtered and were in very good condition with the exception of the greenside one at #18 which is still full of rocks and pebbles. Probably they just haven't got to that one yet...
It was a very enjoyable round, which we completed in 4 1/2 hours- and that was only because we had a cart die out and had to wait for a replacement- we still only had to let one group go through as the response to our call in was quick and we were on our way again in short order.
Nice course, near perfect conditions, great staff- very highly recommended!

Nice that on their website they announce a drive to collect donations for autism!
Poor that they don't say anywhere that they just punched the greens and they're bumpy, sandy and so full of deep aeration holes that you can't see the bottoms of them still a week after they did them. After playing there yesterday (4/12/21) I looked here and greenskeeper.org had noted it- my fault for not checking first!
LVGC is an inexpensive, flat, enjoyable casual round with wide enough fairways and big enough greens that the only penalties are being caught in the rough behind trees or going OB over the border fences. Lots of room to roam. Favoring one side or the other you can usually stay out of trouble. It's also one of the very few courses in Las Vegas that allows walking, and although that can slow things up a tad, we still completed our round in just under 4 1/2 hours.
Fairways were decent and easily playable. Rough consists of two kinds of grasses- small clumps of thick, lush green grass interspersed with low, flat dormant ones, so shots into the rough invariably end up cupped between the clumps. Better players without wayward shots should have no problems (we're not them, lol). Sand traps are difficult with hard-packed crusty areas, unraked divots, pits, footprints and also some reasonably playable areas. We just defaulted to totally improper "lift and place" in them to give ourselves a chance. Can't fault the course as with COVID everyone knows bunker bottoms are mostly this way everywhere since no raking or maintenance is done this last year. Tee boxes were OK, flat with the usual unfilled divots on par-3s, but wide enough to easily find a good area to tee it up.
Recommendation? Wait a couple of weeks for the aeration effects to stabilize and then enjoy it at the end of April throughout the Summer.

Always enjoy my round at Arroyo- the conditions are dependably nice and the layout and aesthetics are enjoyable. The first tee is a long ways from the clubhouse and the practice area is a little remote, so allow a little extra time for your pre-game warmup. But you get to hit off of grass, the balls are complimentary, and normally they're in decent shape. The staff is always helpful, professional and friendly, too.
The fairways are well-maintained with just the right amount of generosity. The rough is lush and dense, and has been cut back to a good length. Still not always easy, but playable, with some difficult areas here and there. I hope they keep it this way. There were times in the past when play would slow because of the ball-searching and "hack it out" conditions of the Arroyo rough.
The greens are receptive enough and quick and challenging without being unfair. You may find an occasional putt that will break off within the last 6 inches of the hole (because of the "volcano effect" of the morning crew pulling the plug out and not tamping the surrounding ground back down?) so the holes do play a little smaller if you're one who likes to "die" it in (like me *groan*). But they never place them in penal locations where 3-footers break a foot and a half, or misses roll back to your feet or keep trickling forever until they're 9 feet past.
The bunkers are a little inconsistent, but they do play OK in general. There are some patches of hardness with no "give" here and there, which is a common horror here in Vegas when the winds have scoured out a trap. There are, however, many that are littered with rocks and patches where the filter cloth in the bottom is sticking out of the sand. I was told there was a rumor that they will re-do them this year. If so, that would push The Arroyo from "nice" into "superb" territory. It's still a top-notch facility and a pleasure to play just the way it is.
All in all, The Arroyo has always been one of my "go-to" places to play for a good, solid round of golf. Very much recommended.

Pros:
Nice grassy area to hit from on the range, putting green was representative of the course conditions and there was a good-looking chipping area there also. Practice balls were in very good shape.
Fairways were quite nice- easy to hit from with just a nice little "fluff" to the lie.
Greens had some scruffy patches at times, but very consistent speed from hole to hole and putted medium/slow. Fairly level, very firm surfaces without many undulations made for easy alignment and very few ball marks were seen.

Cons:
$5 for 25 warmup balls is about double the price of anywhere else that charges for them.
Tacked on "convenience fee" to make tee time reservations is unheard of elsewhere.
Site says "under OB Sports management", but no points were added to my card and no discount was offered anywhere, unlike every other OB Sports venue.
Rough is tight, firm and not extensive- miss the fairway and there's a good chance you're going to end up on dirt, gravel, or both.
The few greens perched near water might as well have the lake right up against them as any miss on or close to the edge of the green on the water side will not stop rolling all the way down into the hazard- which is hidden on #10. I landed a shot inside the right edge of the #9 green that trickled off and down into a sand trap- and then kept rolling all the way THROUGH the sand trap for another 30 feet or so until it went into the lake on the far right.
And those "sand traps"...
There aren't any. They're true hazards. Bunkers have hard, baked bottoms with even patches of dried, cracked mud in some. No sand. Weeds and grass are growing in some. Seems like there's been no maintenance or upkeep whatsoever for some time and they've just been left to erode and decay.
SLOW PLAY?! Either they allow 6-somes at Stallion Mountain or they don't, but there's no marshal to find and ask. No other course in Las Vegas even allows 5 people, but we caught up to a group of six on the back-9 (we believe the 2 groups that were ahead of us got tired of waiting on them, too, and passed them up) and our last 7 holes for the two of us was nearly 2 1/2 hours of waiting and waiting...and waiting....
Liked the fairways and the greens were good enough, but... no, can't recommend this track. It's a shame- the potential is there.

Haven't played Palm Valley for awhile and it's currently very different from what I remember. Instead of the typical U.S. style course, it's gotten an interesting facelift this Winter. Almost British links-style, firm, fast, tight yellow/brown fairways- not the same as before, but very, very playable.
The greens appear to have been completely reseeded with a new grass that rolls nice and smooth, but seemed inconsistent on speed- I had some downhill putts from distance go well past the hole and a couple of 7-footers that looked terrifyingly quick come up a foot short. This is a course I have played nearly 100 times over the years and with the exception of the one gentleman in our foursome that announced he plays there nearly every day, we all had trouble with our putting distances. But again, the roll was nice and smooth. Hmmm... maybe there is now a grain effect I don't recognize? Whatever, I loved the surface, just disappointed in my inability to read it.
There is one issue. The course was designed as kind of a a parkland layout, with dips, hills, runoffs and collection areas surrounding the greens. Now with the tight, firm conditions chipping the ball is extremely difficult as there is no tolerance at all and the ball would often come to rest in small, cuppy lies. We ended up mostly resorting to putting from off the green. However with different little grass clumps invading the areas immediately adjacent to the greens and little ridges and dips bordering them, the "Texas wedge" approach gets your ball bouncing before the putting surface and nearly impossible to control. Despite that one drawback, I enjoyed the course enough to go right back the next day and play it again.
I like the change overall. It's certainly different from the other courses I've been playing in town, but other than the chipping woes the play was really nice- firm and fast everywhere- and the new sand is absolutely wonderful, maybe the best in the valley. Every bunker shot I had came out just the way it should over both days (even my bad ones, lol).
I'll be back!

Surprise! I didn't expect such a nice course to be found in Laughlin, but Mojave Resort exceeded my expectations in every way. Conditions were superb and the greens fees were very affordable for us Southern Nevadans.
The greens were extremely hard (no ball marks all day!) and smooth. Quick enough to putt and not have to"hit",with a handful of tricky putts that were still by no means unfair- a better green reader might see the subtleties I didn't. I loved them even though I didn't make anything. *sigh*
The fairways were very nice, the Winter dormant bermuda was short in the rough and easily played. Sand traps were plentiful and strategically placed to add some needed analysis. It was typical desert "sand", unfortunately meaning a very hard surface and little give, so it's next to impossible to get a decent result from downhill lies. Wedges skip off of the surface rather than produce the usual explosion. Makes the fairway bunkers super easy to play out of, but the greenside ones all "drop-kicked" out and well over the green until we figured out to come down much steeper and that seemed to be the key to get results. Holes were a nice mix, some sweet par-3s, and I never felt I was playing the same hole twice. I would happily play there again.
Unfortunately there were no marshalls watching over the course so our day was less than enjoyable because the group behind us brought a boom box along and continually parked their carts a mere 15 feet off of the greens (!), relentlessly cranking out loud hip-hop every friggin hole to completely erase any serenity on the course or concentration for our tee shots even though we were 50 yards away from them. I don't understand when it became allowable for "golfers" to insist on converting golf courses into their own personal backyard Bar-B-Que party- and it's NEVER addressed. More and more I face this- even on the range, when you have to pick everything up and go to the other side to relax and practice because they get belligerent if you tell them playing their music out loud 10 feet away from you is distracting. C'mon, golf facilities- take a stand on this. Enforce using ear buds on those who just absolutely have to have their tunes. I love my music too, I just don't bring it to the golf course and inconsiderately impose it on others who gratefully get away from the relentless noise of today's life for a few hours of enjoying the quiet beauty that is so integral a part of this wonderful game.