Lengthy-time Shadow Creek normal supervisor Monte Montgomery needed to shortly appropriate himself. He’d been requested how golfers can snag a tee time on the Las Vegas showstopper, and his preliminary reply was promising…till it wasn’t.
“It’s actual straightforward,” he stated, including, “I imply, it’s very troublesome to get a tee time; it’s like going to any good golf course within the nation.”
What Montgomery, the visitor on this week’s GOLF Subpar podcast, meant was Shadow Creek is a resort course, so it’s technically straightforward to get a tee time there. However there are just a few stipulations. Oh, and it’s going to value you a superb chunk of change.
“We acquired our golf reservations,” he continued, “so you will get on-line and discover these numbers, or if you’re a gambler you possibly can go down and get a number on the on line casino. However weekends are reserved for comped gamers solely, so it’s important to have a number. They’re actually the one ones that may make a reservation for you, if you’re a comp participant, which implies you bought to have a credit score line to gamble. Some Sundays we open up, however Monday by way of Thursday you possibly can principally name and in case you keep at one of many MGM properties, minus New York-New York, Excalibur and Luxor, [you can get a time].”
Shadow Creek opened in 1989, and the Tom Fazio design value round $60 million to construct. MGM Resorts Worldwide took over possession in 2000 and made the luxe course accessible for friends of designated MGM properties. The worth has skyrocketed through the years. It was initially $500, however it’s now greater than double that, and at $1,250 a spherical, it’s the costliest public tee time in america.
The course ranked 14th on GOLF’s newest record of the High 100 Programs You Can Play, and along with your tee time comes a non-public limo experience to the golf course, caddie and locker.
Can’t make it there your self? You’ll get a superb view of it on TV later this month, when Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler tackle Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau within the newest made-for-TV TNT Match on Dec. 17, which will probably be about six years after Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson squared off there within the first enjoying of the sequence.
You possibly can hearken to your complete interview with Montgomery right here, or watch it on YouTube beneath.
