In Tournament Hills, the golf course in your backyard hosted the PGA Tour for 41 straight years. That's the same TPC Summerlin layout Tiger Woods won his first Tour title on, the same greens Jim Furyk won three times, and the same course roughly 130 Tournament Hills homes back up to today.
A course built for tournament golf, not just weekend rounds
TPC Summerlin opened in 1991, purpose-built as a tournament venue by architect Bobby Weed with Fuzzy Zoeller as player consultant. It's carried real tournament history since: Tiger Woods won his first PGA Tour title there in 1996, a playoff over Davis Love III in just his fifth start as a pro, and Jim Furyk won three times on the same layout.
The course still plays the way it did for the pros. Bentgrass greens run fast and firm at roughly 2,700 feet of elevation, high enough that shots carry a little farther than they would at sea level, and the layout winds through the same desert arroyos and washes it always has. Five sets of tees on every hole keep it playable for a single-digit handicap or a weekend golfer, which is part of why it holds up as a home course rather than just a special-occasion round.
The practice facility, the pro shop, and the parts that don't show up on TV
Tournament coverage focuses on the back nine on Sunday. Living here, the more relevant spaces are the ones cameras never point at. Members work on their game at a championship-quality practice facility built to the same standard as the course, then browse the on-site pro shop for equipment and apparel. Beyond golf, the club's Lifestyle Center adds fitness facilities, tennis courts, and a pool, so the membership works for the whole household, not just the golfer in it.
Membership: privileges, and what it actually costs
A few of the real perks that come with TPC Summerlin membership:
- No special assessments: members are never billed extra for improvements to the golf course or clubhouse
- TPC Passport: reciprocal play at other TPC courses, plus eClub invitations and offers from TPC Network clubs around the country
- Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary certified: the course carries this conservation certification
- State recognition: Nevada Business Magazine named it the state's top private course
On cost: TPC Summerlin doesn't publish initiation fees or dues, and membership is its own application, separate from buying a home in Tournament Hills. There are personal, corporate, young executive, and social tiers, and the club handles admissions by appointment rather than automatically extending access to nearby homeowners. If pricing is part of your decision, the most reliable number is the one the membership office gives you directly, not a public estimate.
Dining that runs every day, not just tournament week
The clubhouse dining rooms, including Players' Pub, the Summerlin Dining Room, the Patio Grill, and the Poolside Café, run a normal daily rhythm for a post-round meal or a family dinner. None of that was ever unique to tournament week. It's just what membership looks like on an ordinary Tuesday.
The one week a year residents didn't have their own course, they finally do
For 41 years, one week every October worked against the members who actually live here. Gallery ropes went up along the fairways. Hospitality tents took over the practice facilities. The course that Tournament Hills homeowners could otherwise play whenever they wanted became a television set for a week, whether they held a membership or not.
That ended after the 2024 Shriners Children's Open, the tournament's last year at TPC Summerlin. Whether a successor event lands here or elsewhere in the valley is still an open question. For now, the one week a year that used to interrupt membership access doesn't anymore. Members get the course, the practice facility, and the Lifestyle Center, uninterrupted, all 12 months.
A neighborhood built around the course
Tournament Hills is roughly 130 custom homes on oversized lots, guard-gated with round-the-clock roaming security, with fairways running directly behind many backyards. For a golfer, that's the actual draw: walk-out proximity to a tournament-pedigreed private course, in a neighborhood built specifically around it rather than near it.
If you're a golfer weighing a move to a course community like Tournament Hills, Greg Clemens and the team can walk you through what's included with the home, what membership costs and involves, and whether it's the right fit for how you actually play. No pressure, just straight answers. Contact us anytime.
