Angel Park Golf Club - Palm Course

The Palm Course at Angel Park Golf Club offers a distinctive Arnold Palmer 70-par design through the Las Vegas desert landscape, presenting a strategic and accessible layout complemented by the resort's signature Cloud Nine par-3 experience.

Angel Park Golf Club opened in 1989 in Las Vegas, Nevada, with two 18-hole courses designed by Arnold Palmer — the Palm Course and the Mountain Course. The courses were developed as a public resort facility intended to bring high-quality golf to the growing Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Palm Course plays to par 70 over 6,432 yards from the back tees, with a rating of 69.8 and slope of 125 — a layout designed to be accessible and enjoyable for resort golfers while still presenting genuine strategic interest. Palmer's design philosophy for resort courses emphasized playability and enjoyment for a broad range of abilities, creating risk-reward moments that appeal to recreational golfers without making the course intimidating for those with higher handicaps.

The Las Vegas desert setting provides a striking visual environment, with the stark Mojave landscape contrasting with the maintained turf of the fairways. Angel Park has added to its golf offering over the years, including the Cloud Nine par-3 course featuring replica holes inspired by famous short holes from around the world. The facility has operated as one of Las Vegas's most visited public golf destinations for over three decades, serving both tourists and local residents who seek quality golf in a resort setting. The Palm Course's five tee configurations allow the layout to serve golfers from beginners to accomplished players.

Angel Park Golf Club - Palm Course plays approximately 6,500 yards from the championship tees on one of two Arnold Palmer-designed championship layouts at the 36-hole Angel Park complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. Palmer's Palm Course routing through the western Las Vegas Valley uses the desert terrain of the Spring Mountains foothills to create a course whose mountain backdrop and desert plant communities give it a visual quality that complements the strategic demands of a Palmer design. The Nevada Golf Association includes Angel Park among its member facilities, and the Palm Course has hosted competitive events alongside the companion Mountain Course in the 36-hole complex. The public access model that makes Angel Park available to the broader Las Vegas market fulfills the complex's mission of providing quality championship golf to visitors and residents without the private membership requirement.

The Las Vegas golf market — enormous, internationally recognized, and served by dozens of championship courses — demands that each public facility maintain quality and conditioning standards consistent with the expectations of a sophisticated golf tourism population that plays the world's best courses. The Palmer design credential provides Angel Park with an architectural identity that positions it within the tradition of one of the game's most celebrated figures — a course whose Palmer-brand heritage assures visiting golfers of a quality design experience backed by the credentials of a major championship winner and prolific architect. For Las Vegas visitors who want a quality course outside the premium resort tier, Angel Park's Palm Course provides a Palmer-designed experience at accessible pricing. The Palm Course's combination of Palmer's design quality, consistent conditioning, and the Las Vegas desert setting creates a public golf experience that rewards both visiting tourists who include a round in their Nevada itinerary and the metropolitan area's resident golf population who appreciate accessible quality within the metropolitan area's extensive public course network.