Bill Bowman - Contributor
Bill Bowman is a Las Vegas-based writer who has more than 35 years in the sports writing business. He's spent the past eight-plus years covering the golf scene in Vegas and has teed it up for magazine profiles with celebrities including comedian Bill Engvall, actor Jeffrey Donovan (USA's Burn Notice), ESPN personality Colin Cowherd, NASCAR's Kurt Busch, Collective Soul's Ed Roland, the Baltimore Ravens' Jonathan Ogden and many others.
If you don't think Las Vegas golf courses have great water holes, you're all wet
Okay, we get it -- we're in a desert here in Las Vegas. And there are plenty of desert golf courses here to showcase that fact as they take advantage of the landscape with ribbons of fairways slicing through the desert terrain. But, we're here to whet (or wet) your appetite with one writer's top Las Vegas golf holes that incorporate water beautifully and dramatically. Grab your clubs -- and in some cases your scuba gear -- and let's head to the tee.
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Dates: December 1, 2012 - December 31, 2013
Choose from a wide selection of accommodations and add rounds of golf at the Man O' War and War Admiral courses for a custom Ocean City golf vacation.
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