Day 1
Saturday, May 25th finally arrived. Time to head to Mesquite! This was a travel day with no golf on the docket. I finished packing and drove over to pick up Bryan and then we head to the airport. Our flight was supposed to leave at 1:50pm but the flight attendants for our plane were late arriving so we had a 45 minute delay. I snoozed a bit on the flight, spent some time browsing the internet with the expensive in air WiFi ($14), and read a couple of golf mags. We finally arrive in Las Vegas!
We pick up the rental car, then drove up to Mesquite, Nevada and checked in to the Casablanca hotel and casino, which will be our home for the next 5 nights. The Casablanca is an older property but its clean and very economical. The room ran $80 for Sat night, then $60 a night for Sun - Thurs. The total bill at check out was $425 with tax, which Bryan and I split. We spent the evening checking out the hotel and the casino and called it an early night. This was the view of the Casablanca sign from our hotel room.
The town of Mesquite welcomes the Am with banners all over town!
Day 2
We got up early and I have a huge breakfast (pancakes, sausage, bacon, eggs, hashbrowns) for $3.99 in the Casablanca Cafe, then we head over to Wolf Creek Golf Club for a round. I played this course last year and said then that it was tied as the most scenic course I've ever played. That still stands after a second playing. Every single hole could be a signature hole at other courses. The course was in fantastic shape. The fairways were perfect and the greens were very nice. You can check out my blog post from May 2012 to see several images from Wolf Creek http://seekingasingledigit.blogspot.com/2012/05/day-2-part-1-wolf-creek.html and here are a couple of photos from this trip. This is the par 5 17th taken from just off the 16th green.
This was Bryan's first time playing Wolf Creek so it was real fun playing it with him. I know the "wows" I heard him say on every tee box were exactly what I was saying last year. I've heard some say the course is not "real golf" but I don't feel that way at all. It's fair with reasonably large fairways. There are several holes with big elevation changes, but several courses in the Mesquite area also have similar elevation changes. They are just part of the local topography. Our round cost $125.
I shot an 86 on the course in 2012, and this time a 92. I struggled with my Driver some and hit some poor approach shots on others. Here is my scorecard from the round.Note the high slop rating even from the seemingly short distance of 5,820 yards. Again, lots of elevation on this course so it plays longer than the yardage. Well worth playing if you ever get a chance. Mesquite is just an hour and 15 minutes north east of Vegas.
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