Lengthy-time Shadow Creek common 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 simple,” he mentioned, including, “I imply, it’s very tough 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 simple to get a tee time there. However there are a number of stipulations. Oh, and it’s going to price you a great chunk of change.
“We acquired our golf reservations,” he continued, “so you will get on-line and discover these numbers, or in case you are a gambler you may go down and get a bunch on the on line casino. However weekends are reserved for comped gamers solely, so you need to have a bunch. They’re actually the one ones that may make a reservation for you, in case you are a comp participant, which implies you bought to have a credit score line to gamble. Some Sundays we open up, however Monday by means of Thursday you may mainly name and in the event 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 price round $60 million to construct. MGM Resorts Worldwide took over possession in 2000 and made the luxe course out there for company of designated MGM properties. The value has skyrocketed over time. It was initially $500, nevertheless 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 listing of the Prime 100 Programs You Can Play, and along with your tee time comes a personal limo trip to the golf course, caddie and locker.
Can’t make it there your self? You’ll get a great 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 shall be about six years after Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson squared off there within the first taking part in of the collection.
You’ll be able to hearken to the whole interview with Montgomery right here, or watch it on YouTube under.
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