Private Golf Clubs in Las Vegas
The valley's private golf is not one market but several: the Robert Trent Jones pedigree south of the Strip, the Arnold Palmer doubleheader in Summerlin, the invitation-only Discovery Land enclave on the ridgeline, and the older guard-gated clubs that have anchored the west side for a generation. This is the honest map.
Orientation
How to read the Las Vegas private-club map.
Private golf in Las Vegas clusters geographically and by era. The western edge — Summerlin and the foothills below Red Rock Canyon — holds the newest and most exclusive addresses, where the desert meets the conservation land and the views do most of the selling. South of the Strip, along the I-15 corridor, Southern Highlands stands largely on its own with a course of genuine architectural significance. And threaded through the established west valley are the clubs that came first: Spanish Trail and Canyon Gate, guard-gated since the late 1980s and early 1990s, when this was the frontier of master-planned Las Vegas rather than its luxury core.
What unites them is that the golf is not for sale by the round. These are members-only and members-and-guests operations, and the interesting question at each is not the green fee — there usually isn't one for the public — but the path in. We profile each club below for what it is: its design lineage, its access model, and the kind of golfer it actually suits. For the mechanics of getting onto a private course locally, start with our guide to private golf access in Las Vegas.
Facts here are drawn from each club's own materials, official records, and established public reporting; designers, dates, and configurations are attributed where known. Membership terms, dues, initiation costs, and access rules are set privately and change over time — confirm current specifics with the club directly before relying on them.
The clubs we profile
Five private clubs — and one project still on the drawing board.
- 01 Southern Highlands Golf Club A members-only course at 1 Robert Trent Jones Lane, carrying the design lineage of Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Jr. behind a guard-gated master-plan.
- 02 Red Rock Country Club Two Arnold Palmer layouts — the Mountain and the Arroyo — on Red Springs Drive, spanning a broader access band than most private clubs.
- 03 The Summit Club The invitation-only Discovery Land enclave that hosted Rory McIlroy and the 2021 CJ Cup — access as exclusivity, not as a price list.
- 04 Spanish Trail Country Club Twenty-seven Robert Trent Jones Jr. holes — Sunrise, Lakes, and Canyon — at one of the valley's original guard-gated clubs, six miles from the Strip.
- 05 Canyon Gate Country Club A Ted Robinson design established in 1989, the settled west-valley club that once hosted the LPGA, behind its own gates.
- 06 The Amara Story A new private golf and social club, publicly listed as coming in 2026 on land west of the Strip — what is known, and what we are watching.
Where this fits
This landscape page is the index; each club has its own profile with the sourced detail and the honest read on access.
If membership itself is the question — how equity and non-equity models work, what a waitlist really means, and where invitation replaces a checkbook — read how private golf access works in Las Vegas. And for the project that lends this site its name, held deliberately at arm's length, see the Amara story.