Bali Hai Golf Club

Lee Schmidt and Brian Curley built Bali Hai in 2000 as a tropical-themed anomaly on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip, a South Pacific transplant in the Mojave Desert, with 4,000 trees, 2,500 palms, and 100,000 tropical plants imported and maintained through desert heat. Seven acres of water features thread the routing, and the course sits in full view of the Strip's south skyline. The 16th is the money hole: a par-3 island green crossed by the Cili Restaurant's patio crowd, played over bluer-than-real water. The par-4 3rd runs 468 yards with a creek down the entire right side and bunker left, leaving little margin. The course stretches 6,994 yards par-71 with Bermuda fairways overseeded with rye for winter play. Premium pricing even by Vegas standards, this is the round where you pay for the experience of walking off the course straight into casino-adjacent dinner.