Mojave Resort Golf Club, Laughlin

Rated a four-star course from Golf Digest, Mojave Resort Golf Club covers 6,939 yards of green located right next door to the Avi Casino. The course winds through the lowlands of the Colorado River's banks. Its picturesque natural landscape features wide fairways and twisting sand dunes with a desert-mountain backdrop. From the simple par-3 fifth hole, with a straightaway shot surrounded by two bunkers and a water-boarded right side, to the more difficult par-5 on the 13th hole (across a lengthy fairway with numerous sand bunkers blocking the green), this course challenges beginners and veterans alike.

• Practice area: filled with a grass range with target flags as well as a putting green and a short game section with sand bunker

• Snack bar and lounge doles out breakfast and lunch to diners sitting inside or on outdoor patio, which possesses a scenic view of the course as well as the mountains.