Las Vegas Golf Bachelor Party: The Weekend Plan

A golf bachelor party in Las Vegas has a shape that works. Land on Thursday, play on Friday and Saturday mornings, give the afternoons to a pool and the nights to a steakhouse and a club, and let Sunday be the games or the flight home. The nights mostly take care of themselves. The golf is the part that needs a plan: eight or twelve players, two courses, two late nights, and a set of clubs for every one of them.

The weekend at a glance

• Thursday: land, dinner, then the tables.
• Friday: an early round at Bali Hai on the Strip, the pool, then dinner and a club at Wynn and Encore.
• Saturday: Reflection Bay or TPC Las Vegas, the pool, then dinner and a club at Caesars Palace.
• Sunday: the games by a pool in football season, or the airport.

Two rounds is the right number

Groups book three rounds and play two. Thursday is a travel day, and a Sunday tee time after two nights out is wishful thinking. Friday and Saturday mornings give everyone a real round on two very different courses and still leave the afternoons free.

Take the earliest tee times you can get. Our when to golf guide puts the best weather, conditioning and daylight from late October through April, and in summer the move is a dawn start and a cart. Watch the calendar in the fall: many courses overseed, often in October, and close for a stretch or play temporary greens while the new grass comes in.

For eight players, ask for two consecutive tee times rather than two foursomes an hour apart; for twelve, three in a row. Settle the pairings and the side game over dinner on Thursday, not on the first tee. And pack real golf clothes: Reflection Bay and the Paiute courses turn away denim, and the Paiute courses want shirts with sleeves.

Getting around with the clubs

Book the transport with the rest of the trip, not at the curb. Our golf transportation page gets a quote from Bell Transportation for airport pickups and round trips to any Southern Nevada course, with the clubs included. Past about eight players the group needs a Sprinter van rather than an SUV, and those need lead time; our group transport guide explains why.

The nights are a separate job. MyRSVP's Las Vegas transportation page covers them, and bachelor weekends there are usually booked as hourly windows rather than fixed pickups, because groups run late.

Thursday: dinner and the tables

Arrival night is dinner for everyone. COTE on Restaurant Row at The Venetian is the first West Coast location of the Korean steakhouse, with USDA Prime and dry-aged beef grilled at the table. That suits a group that has just landed and wants to catch up.

The casino floor is a short walk away. For serious players, our sister site Casino Host Vegas matches high-value players with a casino host at The Venetian and Palazzo. If the group wants a club on night one, OMNIA at Caesars Palace opens on Thursdays at 10:30 PM. One late night is plenty, though, because Friday's tee time is early.

Friday: Bali Hai, then Wynn and Encore

Bali Hai Golf Club is the only championship course on the Strip itself, just south of Mandalay Bay, so the first round starts without a long ride. It is a Schmidt-Curley design from 2000, a 7,002-yard par 71 in a tropical setting. That makes it the right Friday course for a group that went to bed late: close, a real test, and done in time for the pool.

The late afternoon is the pool. Las Vegas pool season runs from March through October, and most decks close for the winter. Marquee Dayclub at The Cosmopolitan keeps going under its climate-controlled Dome.

Dinner is SW Steakhouse at Wynn, with a terrace on the Lake of Dreams. Then walk next door to XS at Encore, which reopened in November 2026 after a top-to-bottom renovation. Casino Host Vegas has a Wynn and Encore page for the tables.

Saturday: the drive is worth it

Saturday is the round everyone talks about on the flight home, so make it the better course and accept the drive.

• Reflection Bay at Lake Las Vegas in Henderson is Jack Nicklaus's 1998 design, with a mile and a half of shoreline in play. It is one of the most scenic public rounds in Southern Nevada. From the Gold tees it measures 7,261 yards with a 150 slope, so most of the group belongs a set forward.
• TPC Las Vegas in Summerlin is the public TPC, formerly TPC Canyons and a host course of the PGA TOUR's Las Vegas event from 2000 to 2006. It is minutes from the Strip and plays 7,016 yards at par 71.
• The Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort, northwest of the Strip, is the call for a third round or for a group that wants room to itself. It has three Pete Dye courses, and Wolf, at 7,604 yards, is billed by the resort as the longest course in Nevada. It also has an island green that will settle at least one bet.

The prestige tier, Shadow Creek, Wynn Golf Club and Cascata, has no public tee sheet. Our rankings and each course's page explain how each one is played.

Back on the Strip, dinner is Peter Luger, which opened at Caesars Palace in the fall of 2023 as the Brooklyn steakhouse's first U.S. location outside New York. Order the steak for the table. Then OMNIA in the same resort, with four spaces for a group that cannot agree on music. The alternative Saturday is Fontainebleau: Don's Prime, then LIV in the same resort. LIV is open Friday through Sunday from 10:30 PM to 4 AM, with an upscale dress code.

Sunday: the games, or the flight

In football season, Sunday belongs to Tailgate Beach Club at Mandalay Bay, next to where Friday's round started. It is a 21-and-over pool built around a 145-foot LED screen, with NFL Sundays on the wall and a TV in every cabana, and it runs from March Madness through Super Bowl Sunday. Otherwise, the car that met the group at the airport takes it back.

How to book it

• Tee times: each course page here links to the course's own booking. Golf in LV is an independent guide and does not hold tee times.
• Golf transport: our golf transportation page.
• The nights in more detail: MyRSVP's Las Vegas golf bachelor party guide covers the same weekend from the dinner table.
• Dinners: each restaurant books through the reservation link on its MyRSVP page.
• Club tables and cabanas: send the night and the group size from the venue's MyRSVP page, and MyRSVP's Las Vegas team confirms the table and its minimum before you commit.