The first impression people have about the Tournament Players Club at the Canyons is similar to the feeling of Sin City itself - it’s a showy spectacle that’s more than a little shallow.
Designed by Raymond Floyd and Bobby Weed, TPC Canyons Las Vegas is a must play when you make your tee times.
This tone is set by the second hole, a 196-yard par-3 that’s a straight shot across an impressively deep canyon to a desert green that seems to float in the air.
“When I first played TPC at the Canyons, I hated it,” said Dennis Silvers, a Vegas golf radio and TV show host who leans toward traditional tracks. “Now it’s probably one of my favorite courses.
This is a course with the power to convert though. For all its bluster — and this stark desert track sticking out in the middle of the Summerlin development carries plenty of bluster — there are many strategically rewarding holes.
It’s not all shooting over canyons (though if your game goes queasy at that sort of thing, this probably isn’t the place for you).
This is a course where you can run through ProV1s like they’re range balls, racking up an astronomical hidden round charge. But it’s also a course where a good golfer can get even more befuddled by the traditional design elements.
Like obstacles actually set up to affect the average right-handed golfer’s natural fade. Full article
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