The Amara Story

What is publicly known

By the club's own public presentation, Amara Golf & Social Club is described as a forthcoming private golf and social club, located just west of Las Vegas in the high red-rock country, and it is publicly marked as coming in 2026. That is the firm part of the picture: a new private club, on the valley's western edge, presented as a place built around golf and social life, with an opening still ahead of it as of this writing. Beyond that framing, the publicly stated detail is deliberately limited, which is normal for a club still in its pre-opening phase.

The project has also drawn local interest because of where it sits. The western edge of the valley — the foothills below Red Rock Canyon and the upper reaches of Summerlin — is the area's most exclusive golf corridor, and a new private club there is a notable addition to a landscape that already includes The Summit Club and Red Rock Country Club. It has been reported in connection with the redevelopment of land that previously held the Bear's Best Las Vegas course — a Jack Nicklaus tribute layout that closed before this project — which is part of why the development has registered with golfers tracking the valley.

The location framing (“just west of Las Vegas,” the red-rock setting) and the “coming 2026” timing reflect the club's own public presentation at amaragolf.com. The Bear's Best Las Vegas connection reflects local reporting on the site's redevelopment. All of it is subject to change, and details below this line are not independently confirmed by us.

What is not yet known

It is worth being equally clear about the gaps, because a pre-opening club generates more speculation than fact. As of this writing, the publicly confirmed record does not settle the course architect, the precise membership and access model, the initiation and dues structure, the member-roster size, the exact opening date, or the final scope of the club's golf and social offering. We are not going to invent any of it. Where you see confident specifics circulating about Amara, treat them as provisional until the club states them itself — and recognize that plans for a project this early routinely shift between announcement and opening.

Why we are watching it

For a publication covering private and luxury golf in Las Vegas, a brand-new private club on the valley's most coveted western edge is simply newsworthy. New private access in this corridor is rare; most of the marquee addresses have been settled for years, and the access ladder — from the established west-valley clubs up to the invitation-only ridgeline — has been stable for a while. A new entrant has the potential to change that, and the redevelopment of a well-known former course into a private club is the kind of story that reshapes the local map. So we are watching, and we will report what is publicly established as it becomes established — no more, and no sooner.

How to get real information

Because we are independent and unaffiliated, this page is the wrong place to learn membership terms, timelines, or how to express interest — and we would not want you to mistake our editorial coverage for the club's own word. For anything authoritative about Amara Golf & Social Club, including current status and any official way to register interest, go directly to the developer's own site, amaragolf.com. That is the primary source; this is independent commentary about it.

Read alongside

To put Amara in context, see how the rest of the valley's private golf is structured: the full Las Vegas private-club landscape, and our guide to how private golf access works in Las Vegas. Among existing clubs, the closest comparison by setting is the western-ridge tier — The Summit Club and Red Rock Country Club — though any comparison to a club that has not yet opened is, by definition, provisional.