Nevada is a desert, wasteland, save for the resort and casinos in Las Vegas, Reno, and Lake Tahoe. The best golf courses in Nevada were built mostly for visitors, and like its casinos, hotels, and restaurants, tend to be best in class.

Price for the top golf courses in Nevada seems to be no barrier with the Shadow Creek Golf Club rivaling Pebble Beach's greens fees but scale down to the Jackpot Golf Club on the Idaho border where the cost to play is less than lunch at Shadow Creek. In between for the casino/resort traveler, there's a variety of well-known courses like Jack Nicklaus's Bear's Best in Las Vegas to Edgewood Tahoe in Stateline, and this guide to the best public golf courses in Nevada helps you find the top golf courses you can play.