Check out the brutal Johnny Miller-designed Badlands Golf Club
LAS VEGAS -- Badlands Golf Club can make you feel like your golf game is bad. This 27-hole facility in the Summerlin area about 20 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip is pure target golf. The desert's in play on every hole, the first cut of rough's thick and the greens are faster than a NASCAR driver on the turn.
It's also a fun golf course to play, one seemingly made for golf bets with the buddies. Diablo and Desperado are the original nines in this Johnny Miller/Chi Chi Rodriguez, collaboration, and the 18-hole combo you want to play. The newer Outlaw is easier and not quite as interesting -- and the challenge is the reason you want to play golf at Badlands.
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It's easy to get lost in all the nature at Badlands Golf Club in Las Vegas.
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Badlands Golf Club - Fairway
The fairways are very green at Badlands Golf Club -- especially for Las Vegas.
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Desert - Badlands Golf Club
Its golfer versus the desert at Johnny Miller's Badlands Golf Club in Las Vegas.
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Badlands Golf Club in Las Vegas
Landing the ball on the green's not so easy at Badlands G.C. in Las Vegas.
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Badlands GC in Las Vegas, Nevada
Badlands Golf Club gives you rocky desert carries of all varieties.
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Badlands Golf Club - Mountains view
Mountains loom overhead at Badlands Golf Club in Las Vegas.
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Badlands Golf Club - Rock wall
This little rock wall at Badlands GC can snare many even smaller golf balls.
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Badlands Golf Club - clubhouse
A front view of the clubhouse at Badlands Golf Club in Las Vegas.
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Diablo Course at Badlands Golf Club - hole 2
The par-5 second hole on the Diablo Course at Badlands Golf Club in Summerlin plays 520 yards from the back tees.
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Badlands Golf Club - greens
Reading the greens at Badlands Golf Club requires a keen eye and putting them requires nerves of steel.
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Desperado Course at Badlands Golf Club - No. 1
A closer look at the green on the par-4 first hole on the Desperado Course at Badlands Golf Club in Las Vegas.
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Desperado Course at Badlands Golf Club - 3rd
There is a sand bunker and water hazard on the right of the third green on the Desperado Course at Badlands Golf Club in Summerlin.
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