I'd like to say it was worth it, but for the same money, you could drive 70 miles up the road to Mesquite, play your golf there, and have enough left over to hire an LPGA Tour player to come play with you in your member-guest.
Wolf Creek gets all the press when it comes to Mesquite golf, and it is astonishing to see. The quilt of desert-rock outcroppings, bleached bunkers, and radical elevation changes from tee to fairway make it look -- and play -- like an M.C. Escher drawing. They list the Course Rating at 75.4, but it might as well say "stupid hard." The best score in our group was a 92, by a club pro who had shot 68 the day before -- at Falcon Ridge, a course we all liked better.
Map By Jason Lee
Falcon Ridge is less than four miles from Wolf Creek, and it shares the same desert-canyon DNA. But playability is the big difference: I'll take 85 percent of the blow-you-away backdrop (and 40 percent less green fee) in exchange for risk-reward holes seemingly created by the golf-wagering gods any day. My buddy went from $20 up to $60 down during the space of one failed attempt to carry a rock face from the tee on the 382-yard 10th. We made him play the next three holes with a pink ball.
But if his manhood was threatened, he could restore it for $189 -- and five hours with a military-grade Hummer H1.
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