Las Campanas (Sunset)

Created by the Lyle Anderson Company, which also developed Arizona’s Desert Highlands and Desert Mountain sites with Jack Nicklaus Signature golf courses, Las Campanas is the only exclusive country club and 36-hole golf destination in the Land of Enchantment.

The Sunset layout is younger and shorter than the Sunrise course at Las Campanas, constructed in an out and back style with no return to the clubhouse after nine holes.

And if you think you have seen this layout on the television before, maybe it was whilst watching “Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf” series when the course hosted a match between its designer, Jack Nicklaus and Ben Crenshaw, not long after it opened in 2000.

Most memorable hole on the front nine is undoubtedly the 432-yard 7th, where the elevated tee is positioned almost 100 feet above a fairway that leads to a water-protected green.

On the inward half, which is configured as three par threes, three par fours and three par fives, the closing hole is a reverse-mirror image of the 18th on the Sunrise course, played around a central lake that runs the length of the fairway.