Few courses in America have arrived with the kind of anticipation that surrounded Summit Club. Designed by Tom Fazio and opened in 2020, it sits in the mountains above Las Vegas in Summerlin, and from the moment it debuted it was regarded as one of the most ambitious private club projects the city had ever seen — a deliberate statement that Las Vegas could support world-class golf at the very highest level of exclusivity.
Fazio worked with a dramatic desert mountain site, shaping holes through rugged terrain with sweeping views of the Las Vegas Valley below. The routing takes full advantage of natural elevation changes that most valley courses simply don't have, giving players a sense of genuine topography — rock outcroppings, native desert vegetation, and shifting sight lines that reward course management as much as raw power.
Summit Club sits firmly in the ultra-private tier, with a membership drawn from the uppermost echelon of business and entertainment. For most golfers it exists as something to read about rather than play — which, perhaps, only adds to its allure.
