Rio Secco

[Matt_Cohn]

It's on TV right now and it looks (again, just from TV) kind of plain. It looks flat and kind of like a standard big golf course. I was surprised.

Any comments? Is that impression accurate?

[Matt_Ward]

Matt:

Rio Seco has a wonderful location -- provides stunning glimpses of the Las Vegas skyline and has faciltiies with all the bells and whistles including a stellar teaching area.

However ...

The course is a pro forma Rees Jones layout. Nothing really bad per se but I would not recommend it on a short list of fun and compelling architectural layouts.

Rio Seco, along with Cascata and even Shadow Creek -- are courses that would certainly be joined together because like Vegas, at least to its detractors, it's more about the surface than any serious depth.

[Tommy Williamsen]

I was very disappointed in Rio Secco.  As Matt W suggests, there is nothing dramatically  wrong with the course it just is not worth the time.   

[Joel Zuckerman]

Not only is it ho-hum, it was in relatively poor shape when I was there in late October

[Matt_Ward]

One other thing about Rio Seco is the hefty price tag to play there.

To the credit of the overall Vegas golf market there are other options -- some of them a bit further away from the immediate area but clearly a good bit more compelling from the architectural side of things.