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Rainbow Canyon Golf Club
Lake
Las Vegas is known for spectacular golf. Now world renowned architect
Tom Fazio is rising the bar even higher.
Fazio created a course called Rainbow Canyon (expected to open in the fall of 2006) that will challenge Jack Nicklaus' Reflection Bay and Tom Weiskopf's The Falls, its Lake Las Vegas neighbors, for top honors. Which, of course, only makes golfer wish they could play in this neighborhood more and more.
Many believe the addition of Rainbow Canyon will remove any doubt about Lake Las Vegas' status as one of the top golf hot spots in the world.
Rainbow Canyon will be nestled in the mountains on the northern shore of Lake Las Vegas, adjacent to the award-winning Reflection Bay Golf Club, and will stretch from the lake's shoreline to the Rainbow Garden Geological Preserve. It will measure more than 7,000 yards and will feature extraordinary canyon settings, holes along Lake Las Vegas' shoreline and elevation changes that showcase Lake Mead, the Rainbow Gardens and Lake Las Vegas Resort.
In short, it will be everything you expect from a Fazio design: spectacular, showy and challenging.
But even for Fazio, a designer used to the best, this is a canvas worth crowing about.
"It's a virtually undeveloped wonderland,'' Reflection Bay head pro Dan Romstead said. "It's a spectacular piece of land."
Fazio worked hard to convince the developers to give him this piece of land to work with. He knew immediately that the unique features of the area could give the new course a hook that could keep golfers coming back for generations.
"Rainbow Canyon is a unique golf course design due to the topography of the land," said R.F. Boeddeker, president and chairman, Transcontinental Properties, Inc., Lake Las Vegas Resort's master developer. "Using the lay of the land, Tom Fazio has created one of Lake Las Vegas Resort's most challenging courses that truly complements the resort's other golf clubs. The resort prides itself on offering golfers some of the finest play available in the country and the addition of the new course reinforces Lake Las Vegas Resort's position as a world-class golf destination."
Rainbow Canyon marks a return to the Las Vegas area for Fazio, a region that seems to suit his design style. He created what many consider his masterpiece, Shadow Creek, in Las Vegas and now he's going for the gusto again with Rainbow Canyon.
"It is a real pleasure to be able to return to one of my favorite cities to design a special new golf course," Fazio said. "I have always thought that some of the most creative people in the world practice their trade in Las Vegas, and I am honored that the ownership of Lake Las Vegas Resort has given me the opportunity to be involved in their wonderful development.
"Like Lake Las Vegas Resort itself, Rainbow Canyon will be unique, spectacular, and of the highest quality. I get excited about all of our new projects, but I am already looking forward to teeing it up on this one. It's going to be awesome!"
When Fazio's pumped, you know something wonderful is coming for golfers.
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