The membership book for golf behind the gates.
An independent editorial on the most exclusive clubs of the Las Vegas valley — the Robert Trent Jones pedigree at Southern Highlands, the Arnold Palmer doubleheader at Red Rock, the invitation-only Summit, and the new private club rising on the old Bear's Best land.
What this is
The clubs behind the gates — and how you actually get in.
Private golf in Las Vegas is not one market but several, and almost none of it is for sale by the round. We write the honest version of it — design lineage, access model, and the character that separates one members-only course from the next.
Three threads run through everything here: the clubs themselves, profiled for what they are rather than how they market; how access actually works locally — equity and non-equity membership, waitlists, sponsorship, invitation, reciprocity — written plainly, with no price to chase; and the Amara story, what is publicly known about the pre-opening private club west of the Strip, held at arm's length from the project itself.
The clubs we profile
Five private addresses — and one project still on the drawing board.
- 01 Southern Highlands Golf Club A father-and-son Robert Trent Jones design south of the Strip, behind one of the valley's most guarded gates.
- 02 Red Rock Country Club Two Arnold Palmer layouts in Summerlin — the Mountain and the Arroyo — spanning a wider access band than most.
- 03 The Summit Club The invitation-only Discovery Land enclave that hosted Rory McIlroy and the 2021 CJ Cup.
- 04 Spanish Trail Country Club Twenty-seven Robert Trent Jones Jr. holes — three nines — at one of the valley's original guard-gated clubs.
- 05 Canyon Gate Country Club A Ted Robinson design from 1989, the established west-valley club that once hosted the LPGA.
- 06 The Amara Story The pre-opening private club on the former Bear's Best site — what is publicly known, and what we are watching.
Our posture
No money bends a word of it.
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