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On Thursday, June 9th and Friday, June 10th from 12 noon - 9pm, Golf Fest presented by the Las Vegas Review Journal will be held at Angel Park Golf Club. Now in its 14th year, with annual shows in San Diego, Vegas and Phoenix, Golf Fest provides golfers the opportunity to meet all the major club companies direct as they see and experience everything new in golf. The show features incredible deals from top golf companies including Titleist, Ping, Oakley, Callaway, Cleveland, FootJoy, TaylorMade, and Nike, plus great values on clothing, golf resorts, golf tee times, and emerging golf company products and services.

With paid admission, Golf Fest attendees will receive a FREE round of golf at Angel Park Golf Club and a one-year subscription to Golf Digest or a 6-month subscription to Golf World. A cart fee and tee time restrictions will apply.

PGA Professional and world-renowned golf trick shot artist, Peter Longo, will be performing his amazing golf trick shot show at 6pm both days. Golf Fest will also feature FREE lessons by PGA and LPGA pros, free driving range use to test the latest technology, a putting contest hosted by the Playboy Club, plus tee time and golf vacation discounts. There will be a variety of presentations and driving range exhibitions with lessons geared for juniors, female and male golfers of all ages and levels.

Angel Park Golf Club is located at 100 South Rampart, Las Vegas, NV 89145. Admission is $10, and children under 10 are admitted free. Show hours are Thursday, June 9th and Friday, June 10th from 12 noon - 9pm. Golf Fest presented by the Las Vegas Review Journal is sponsored in part by Angel Park Golf Club, Blue Green Resorts, Golf Channel, Las Vegas Review Journal, Nike Golf at Mandalay Bay, Pure Energy Bands, SynLawn, Suncoast Hotel & Casino, Taylored Fleet Solutions, ESPN Radio 1100, Fox Radio 920 AM, KOMP 92.3, 97.1 The Point and Vegas.com. For more information, call 619-683-3700 or visit www.golffestshow.com.

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Rhodes Ranch Golf Club grabs players’ attention at its gate and never lets go. Through the club’s imperial archway (a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired design that matches the clubhouse), a glance right gives a good taste of things to come. Gaps in the rows of palm trees reveal lavish variations of desert landscaping, while a waterfall and pond shimmer to accent sand bunkers punctuating gently rolling green grass.

Rhodes Ranch looks great from every angle. It features traditional, all-grass golf holes that are always in immaculate condition. The staff members are as friendly as they come, and the overall golf value is second to none; VegasGolfer readers voted the course a 2002 Fairway Award for “Best Value.”

More than 3,000 palm trees line the fairways of this Ted Robinson design that winds through the lush, tropical-paradise setting; and besides the waterfalls, ponds, creeks and finely contoured landscaping, other details really make the course special. The ninth and 18th holes, for example, can be seen from the clubhouse, a work of art all its own with its booth seating, leather-padded chairs, generous floor-to-ceiling windows and broad wrap-around deck. All render wonderful course and/or mountain views.

The par 72 plays 6,909 yards with a rating/slope of 73.0/122, while subsequent tees drop the distance to 6,405, 6,009 and 5,238 yards.

No matter the choice of tees, all players are sure to be fairly challenged by Rhodes Ranch par-3 holes, which course designer Ted Robinson — whose Sahalee Country Club hosted the 1998 PGA Championship — called the best set of 3’s he has ever designed.

No. 3 plays 230 yards across water to a green bunkered front and back. There’s bailout front left of the green, and like the whole course, the hole is set up to accommodate everyone: On subsequent forward tees, the water is reduced to a lateral hazard.

The 202-yard seventh hole is the only par 3 not over water, but the green is set diagonally between back bunkers, while trees encroach from the left. The 441-yard, par-4 18th is an excellent closer. The downhill tee shot sets up a mid- or long-iron approach to a green guarded by a stream that cascades down along its right side, and there’s also a bunker left just above a pond.

Guests of Harrah’s six Las Vegas resorts can enjoy top-rated golf at two of the nation’s most beautiful golf courses - Cascata Golf and Rio Secco.

Cascata Golf, located just 30 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip, was created exclusively for customers of Harrah’s six resorts in Las Vegas. Mountains, breathtaking waterfalls, rivers and incredible views combine with challenging holes and felt-like greens to produce a golfing experience unparalleled anywhere else in the world. No detail has been overlooked, from an opulent clubhouse and pro shop to the personal and attentive service extended to every guest of Cascata.

* Named in “America’s Best Top 100 Modern Courses” (debut at # 56) in 2004 by Golfweek

* Ranked #2 in Nevada in “America’s Best State-by-State Public Access Courses” by Golfweek

* A Top Course Since 1959
Besides being named in America’s Best Modern Courses by Golfweek, Cascata was named #19 by Gary Galyean at Golf Magazine one of the “Top 45 Courses Since 1959.”

Guests can also tee off at Rio Secco, which features unsurpassed views of the Las Vegas valley and the ultimate experience on the greens at one of the best golf courses in Vegas.

Set among the rolling foothills of the Black Mountain Range, Rio Secco Golf Club provides a world-class golf experience unlike any other. This 18-hole championship course was designed by Rees Jones, Golf World magazine’s 1995 “Golf Architect of the Year,” and features stunning scenery and challenging play. Rio Secco Golf Club is located just 12 minutes south of the Las Vegas Strip.

* Named # 1 public access course in Nevada by the Las Vegas PGA

* Butch Harmon School of Golf
Given Rio Secco’s acclaim, guests shouldn’t be surprised to see celebrities playing the course or taking lessons at the Butch Harmon School of Golf, where Tiger Woods once honed his playing skills. In fact, he still holds the course record of 64.

The Butch Harmon School of Golf offers 2-day and 3-day golf school packages that include hands-on instruction from Butch Harmon, rated the number one golf instructor by his peers for the last five years.  For golf school information visit www.butchharmon.com.

* Quality Golf Clubs for Rent
Visitors will be delighted to know that Rio Secco offers “Callaway’s” golf sets. Why drag your clubs through busy airports? Rent quality golf clubs at the Rio Secco Golf Club.