| 2025-2026 ranking
The best golf courses in Nevada
Other desert golf destinations like Scottsdale or Palm Springs get more attention, but public golfers in Nevada are lucky. Thirteen of the top 20 courses in Nevada ranked below are accessible to the public (though many with high green fees), which means we probably should be talking more about spots like Las Vegas, Reno and Mesquite as strong golf destinations.
Shadow Creek, ranked first in Nevada since its debut on our lists in 1991, jumped to its highest position on America’s 100 Greatest in 20 years, moving to 24th this year after some recent renovations. Though Southern Highlands fell out of our list of America’s Second 100 Greatest, it was just three tenths of a point shy of remaining in the top 200, so it’s likely to return soon. The Summit Club is right on its heels, also a little over three tenths of a point shy of making our Second 100—emblematic of the depth of great golf that Nevada has to offer.
Scroll on for the complete list of the best courses in Nevada. Be sure to click through to each individual course page for bonus photography and reviews from our course panelists. We also encourage you to leave your own ratings … so you can make your case for (or against) any course that you've played.

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

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Brian Oar

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Armand Barragan
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Armand Barragan

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Orlando Ramirez

Jed Jacobsohn

Orlando Ramirez




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Brian Walker
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Dave Burk
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Dave Burk

Alex S. MacLean
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Dave Burk
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Dave Burk


L.C. Lambrecht

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Dave Burk

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Barbara Kraft

Stephen Szurlej

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Alex Goodlett

Christian Petersen

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Although Southern Highlands was billed as a co-design between Robert Trent Jones Jr. and his famous father, in truth the senior Jones, who would die in 2000, was retired by the time construction on this lavish Las Vegas layout began in 1998. Still, there’s a plaque on the 12th hole proclaiming it to be the last hole Mr. Jones ever designed. Regardless, Southern Highlands reflects his son Bobby’s design tenets and visuals. The Highlands was always intended to be Bobby’s answer to Tom Fazio’s Shadow Creek, but with a more financially sensible real estate component. It has the same Carolina-pines motif, the same sprawling, overly elaborate bunkers, the same kinetic water features and, if anything, even more elevation change, with the 11th tee box sitting ten stories above the fairway and providing an unobstructed view of the Las Vegas Strip several miles to the north.


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The Henebrys/Courtesy of Shadow Creek GC


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