Played the Nick Tourney course Thur 11/10. Started at 12:30pm for $85 twilight rate and got all 18 in before dark - about 4.5 hours. Course was cart path only as it had only openned from overseeding a few weeks prior. Pace of play was great - no pressure from behind, no pressure on the group ahead - very enjoyable. Course is awesome - enjoyed it much more than the Stadium course. The rough was 4-6 inches long - a real ball-swallower and hosel-grabber that cost you a stroke or two every hole you were in it, but the fairways were lush and rolling and moderately wide. The course has lots of variety: vegetation, water, sand, uphill/downhill/sidehill lies, rough, short and long par 3's, 4's, and 5's...a very dynamic and interest-holding course - not mundane golf at all. Course is routed through housing, some close-up - hit it straight here, and you'll still hit every club in your bag here - a very good challenge, tough but fair, a thinking-man's course. There are large practice facilities at PGA West, a nice locker room with showers, a large pro shop with very expensive merchandise ($85 shirts, $28 caps, $20 bag tags for instance), but some great old photos in the resturant of Skins games with Trevino and Palmer and Nicklaus and Player from the 70's...be sure to bring a couple beers and cigars from home in your bag to avoid the $20/Macanudo and $5.50 each or $25 six-pack charge on Miller Lite. Definately come for the golf and not the goods - a must-play course.

Played Silverrock Fri 11/10/06 at 7:15am. WOW! What a course! My favorite course & round of six over four days, despite cart path only and wet conditions just a couple days after re-openning following overseeding. Paid $115 primetime and was definately worth every penny. Course is gorgeous, running up close to and along the side of the mountains, creating depth-perception issues on some holes. Course is very long too, from all tee boxes. And the track is full of huge sand traps and waste areas to boot. So yes it's a tough play, but it's a fun challenge and extremely interesting, scenic, and exciting course to play. The fairways are very wide and forgiving, if you find them instead of all the sand. The greens as well are very large, although undulating, but in fine shape and roll true, if you don't find the sand surrounding the greens. Did I mention the course is chock-full of sand and desert waste areas?! Largest sand traps I've ever seen! I wouldn't want to play here in the wind - too long, too hard, too much sand in your eyes! This course will only get better as it grows up too, and will be a gem for a long time to come. A great challenge, a beautiful desert course - highly recommend.

Played the North front 9 and the South front 9 on 11/11/06. Had 6:30am tee-time - second group out and played in under four hours. Really enjoyed the course scenery...the elevation changes, the railroad car bridges over the canal, the tall date palms. Course had overseeded about 2 months previous thus we could drive on the course without restriction. Course was immaculate - fairways short, rough a couple inches long, greens in fantastic shape - fairly large, and fairly quick. Lots of large sand traps surround most greens, and dot many fairway landing areas. Overall a fun round on a very nice course. Carts had GPS and the pro shop was very well stocked - lots of great merchandise at fair prices. A mature, friendly, and professional woman checked us in, collected our money, and got us on our way - a pleasant change from the stuffy ladies at PGA West. Clubhouse had a large resturant & bar & buffet. My most memorable hole had a canal running up the right side from tee to green... I faded my tee-shot into the canal, hit my approach just right of the green and bounced into the canal, and wound up with a seven. My buddy drove the fairway, then bounced his approach off the bank of the canal onto the green and two-putted for a par. That hole cost me a nassau and my buddy continues to be the luckiest golfer I know! Tera Lago is a good test with great service and would make a great day of 36 holes for anyone visiting the desert.

Played 11/11/06 for $85 twilight rate with 12:45pm tee-time. Course was cart-path only as overseeding had occurred about a month prior. Tee'd off 15 minutes late due to volume and only got through 14 holes before pitch darkness. Drove up to #17 with hopes to play it in the dark just for grins but found three groups still waiting so headed into the clubhouse. In the dark, #18 looked tough - probably a great finishing hole. Overall, was very frustrated with Stadium - played front nine in 3 hours! Would play a hole in 12-20 minutes, then wait 20 minutes on the next tee-box, hole after hole after hole - 2 groups waiting on most every tee-box. Course was extremely difficult even from correct tee boxes. Be sure to get a yardage book, otherwise you'll stand on tee box and scratch your head just wondering where to hit it. Fairways were sloped and narrow but in good shape; the rough was brutal - long, grass bunkers everywhere, no even lie anywhere it seemed. Lots of sand and lots of water on the course as well. Fair amount of trees as well, although not typically in play. Greens were a bit slow and tricky. Although the course is routed through housing, the homes are set back enough not to be an issue. What we saw of the back 9 looked much tighter and tougher than the front nine, or maybe we were just whipped by the turn. Would love to play the course again if pace of play was good and rate was right - not $235 primetime. Maybe next summer instead. Overall, I found the course much harder than Wolf Creek in Mesquite despite similar slope rating. Put the driver away unless you hit it dead straight every time. At Stadium, it's fairway or death - no doubt.

Played 11/12/06. 90 degree rule in effect as course had overseeded about 6 weeks prior. Course was lush; tee-boxes and greens a little shaggy and putts were slow. Greens rolled true though and were immaculate. Fairways and rough thick and ready for mowing as well. Overall, course was beautiful and challenging and we really enjoyed that it was not surrounded by houses like most Valley courses. We played in intermittent winds during a morning round - sometimes hardly any wind, sometimes a brisk breeze, sometimes a 2-club gale. Wind is definately a consideration here and ramps up the degree of difficulty greatly, especially in PM. Not much water on the course and I didn't notice much sand either (lucky me); a few large-treed holes, but mostly links-style with low scrub paralleling fairways. Low prices in pro shop for clothing and caps compared to other Valley courses, friendly staff, but not much of a bar or resturant. Would play here again - good course, fair price, no houses!

Played RedHawk 11/17/06. Fairways were scalped, dry, and yellow. Tee-boxes and rough were green and in good condition. Greens rolled well and were difficult - many had three tiers. Course meanders through a housing development. Some interesting holes and some elevation changes. Overall a fair course for the money.