New Nicklaus Signature Design Opens at Coyote Springs

by C&RB Staff (editor@clubandresortbusiness.com)
May 2008
 

The Chase, a new Jack Nicklaus Signature course at PGA Golf Club in Coyote Springs, Colo., opened for daily-fee play in April. Located 50 minutes northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, PGA Golf Club Coyote Springs is part of Coyote Springs, a 43,000-acre master-planned community under development by Coyote Springs Land Company, an affiliate of Wingfield Nevada Group Holding Company.
 
PGA Golf Club Coyote Springs is the first new golf course to open in the Las Vegas area in more than six years. PGA Golf Club Coyote Springs will be part of the larger, soon-to-be-built PGA Village at Coyote Springs—a mix of golf-themed retail, instruction and hospitality venues, and the western home for PGA of America Professionals. It is anticipated that construction of Phase One of PGA Village Coyote Springs will begin this summer.
 
The Chase is a par-72, Nicklaus Signature design that measures 7,471 yards from the Black (Championship) tees and offers three other tee positions. The golf course has 11 water features, including one with a massive, five-tier waterfall. Fairways, tees and rough are grassed in common rye grass, while greens are bent grass. Green complexes are fortified by deep, white-sand bunkers and feature plenty of movement and plateaus that are ripe for strategic pin placements.
 
The Chase is the first of two golf courses at PGA Golf Club Coyote Springs. The yet-to-be-named second course, a collaboration between Jack Nicklaus and legendary architect Pete Dye, is expected to be under construction by 2010.
 
The Chase will operate out of a temporary golf shop until the permanent 12,000 sq.-ft. clubhouse is built; completion is anticipated for the fall of 2009.