Oasis Golf Club - Canyons Course

The Canyons Course at Oasis Golf Club in Mesquite is the tougher of Oasis's two 18-hole layouts (the other being the Palmer Course) and one of the defining desert-links experiences in southern Nevada. The course has two distinct halves with different architectural provenance: David Druzisky, an award-winning golf architect, designed the front nine (opened 2005), while Arnold Palmer and Ed Seay designed the back nine, giving the course two different voices that still play as a coherent round. At 6,549 yards par 71 with bermudagrass fairways and greens, the Canyons is a desert-style links that sits among the Virgin River canyons outside Mesquite, about 80 minutes northeast of Las Vegas. The signature hole is the par-3 9th, an elevated tee box requiring a 1-2 club drop plays over a creek and a series of waterfalls to a 173-yard green. The Canyons plays firmer and faster than the companion Palmer Course, and the canyon-rim holes give the layout a visual drama hard to match elsewhere in the region. Pair with Wolf Creek (25 minutes northeast) for one of the best two-round desert golf weekends in the Southwest.