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Bali Hai Golf Club
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Course was designed by Lee Schmidt and Brian Curley, and opened in 2000, and is loaded with plants: 4,000 trees ,2,500 stands of palms, and 100,000 tropical plants. Transition and out-of-play areas are filled with either white sand and black volcanic rock outcroppings. It's a par 71, and measures 7,002 yards from the tips. Pin placement was challenging, with most being on the side of a fairly steep downhill, and heavy undulations. Played in the late afternoon on Thursday in July, hot, sunny, breezy day, and the course was deserted, played in 3 hours. The course is essentially right on the strip, so you get the traffic and airport noise, but an enjoyable course and layout. Course condition was very good even though the greens were recently aerated, but we were informed up front when we made the tee time. Course is visually attractive with some elevation change, not too long and generally without severe penalty, even though there's a lot of water. Staff was very friendly throughout, highly recommended, but expensive.
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Posted by: ralphn
Jul 22nd, 2010
Walters Gollf who built and run Bali Hai have petitioned the cty to allow them to change the use and redevelop the land, seems they haven't made much money here. hardly a surprise since they chage twice as much as any other course in Vegas, save Shadow Creek, Wynn, and Cascata, without a quality golf course or experience.
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Posted by: Brian
Jul 13th, 2010
I just played Bali Hai last Thursday and it was in great shape. This golf course has great views of the Las Vegas Strip. By this I mean you feel like you are hitting your ball into the Mandalay Bay Hotel on a few holes. Really cool. The Course layout is great and the conditions were very good. The four of us played in under 4 hours and we had a blast. The 16th hole which is an island green was a perfect hole in a round of golf. For what we paid, I would like to play it every trip when I travel to Las Vegas now. We will be back next year. Brian
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Posted by: mutiger97
Jul 13th, 2010
I believe they had just sanded the greens when I played this week, so they were not as good as one would expect. I found them sluggish and inconsistent. The bunkers take up a lot of space on this course, and as if this is not a challenge enough I found the sand to be quite inconsistent. It's very fine grain stuff, but the playability varied greatly depending on whether it was dry, wet and raked, or just wet. The fairways were great, very consistent and you just knew you were going to have a good lie anytime you could find the fairways with your tee shot. For the most part, a nice layout, but way overpriced. Would take Desert Pnes any day for 1/3 the cost
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Jul 9th, 2010
I play this course every time I visit Las Vegas. The course conditions are always stellar and the service is five-star. Given it's location, being right on the Las Vegas Strip, Bali Hai Golf Club is not overpriced. You don't have to spend $50+ each way to get there via cab like most other Las Vegas tracks. So, factor that it and Bali Hai is quite the value. I played it June 15th and the course was in great condition. I can't wait to go back at the end of September. For anyone considering playing Bali Hai, make sure you go and signup for their affinity members program - it's 100% free to join and it will save you 10-20% off of your greens fees... you can signup by visiting www.vegaspreferred.com. Cheers, Josh
Posted by: mutiger97
Jul 7th, 2010
Upon getting to the first green of the over-hyped Bali Hai Golf Course my reaction was, “Well, this sure was a waste of money.” Eighteen holes later my opinion didn’t change. Even at their twilight rate during the off-season this course was badly overpriced. Given the limitations of the available land they had to work with, the layout was decent enough, and the Polynesian theme was kinda cool, but the course conditions themselves were horrid. The fairways were nearly completely burned out in many areas, and the greens had recently been aerated. As for purported views of the strip, they are non-existent, and it didn’t help to have the continual parade of planes taking off. It would take an awful lot for me to totally regret playing a course, and thankfully Bali Hai didn’t sink quite that far, but given all the courses to choose from in the area that are less expensive, Bali Hai is much closer to the bottom of the list than the top. Bali Hai is most definitely not worth the price of admission.
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Posted by: Jim Mullins
Apr 8th, 2010
Knowledgeable caddies, great course condition con: Airplanes since it is located right next to McCarren, greenfees $$$, good layout. good risk reward golf course and nice 2-2.5" roughs to make you think 2x about attacking fairways and greens. well protected by deep fairway bunkers and well protected greens with deep bumpers and a lot of water.
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Posted by: mickr
Nov 16th, 2009
It's a bit expensive for what you get, but it's still a nice course.
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