Wynn's palace has all the bells and whistles you'd expect for $2.7 billion -- the most expensive hotel in history -- including a Ferrari dealership (in case you're dealt four aces). So it's no surprise that his golf course is top class, too.

Architect Tom Fazio bulldozed the venerable but flat-as-a-blackjack-table Desert Inn track, sparing only a healthy handful of 50-foot trees that confer instant maturity on his new layout. Like his Shadow Creek course, Fazio achieves an oasis-in-the-desert ambiance thanks to 15,000 pines that cocoon almost every hole and the plentiful water features, including a wishbone-shaped stream that guards the par-3 15th and the in-your-face, 37-foot-high waterfall that backdrops the finishing hole.

Wynn's new Vegas track is as much a feat of great engineering as great golf. John and Jeannine Henebry