These days, Wolf Creek Golf Club occupies that jagged landscape. The course's general manager, Darren Stanek, says it must have taken a burst of creativity to think of putting a golf course ...

but Wolf Creek remains among the best. Even though there now is a real estate component, the pure golf experience remains the same as when the first course opened more than 30 years ago.

There are close to 60 golf courses in the Las Vegas area, which extends from the wild and windswept Wolf Creek in Mesquite, Nevada, way up near the Arizona border to the pristine Primm Valley on ...