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December 2004

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Here's a fun-filled golf weekend for mere thousandaires

By DAVID WEISS

You gotta love/hate Las Vegas. With throngs of tourists wandering up and down The Strip, billions of dollars' worth of ersatz architecture, and the constant clanging of bells and beeps and bad lounge bands, Vegas can be brutal on the senses. Equally brutal is the cost of Vegas golf, which gets up there with the Stratosphere-the 1,149-foot Strip hotel that is the tallest building west of the Mississippi.

Take Las Vegas Golf Club: It's old (1949), short (6,319 yards) and with a 112 slope it is weaker than the cocktails served at the nickel slots-and costs as much as $99 to play!

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Never fear, BBQ is here. Using our new Bang for the Buck Quotient (golfonline.com/bbq), we've created a menu that will save you cash to blow on Sin City's other attractions.

Friday
Ignore the tight airport slot machines and go directly from baggage claim to Palm Valley Golf Club (greens fees: $70-$90) in nearby Summerlin, a half hour northwest of McCarran Airport. This 6,580-yard track designed by Billy Casper and Greg Nash deploys 80-plus bunkers and seven water holes to keep you alert. With par 5s at the first and 18th holes, gamblers get plenty of action from start to finish. Mercifully, Palm Valley's ample greens and wide fairways mix well with early-morning Bloody Marys.

Motor back to the north end of The Strip and check in to the Viva Las Vegas Villas. This is the ultimate in pitch-and-kitsch. Themed suites start at $69 a night ($125 on weekends) and come in a smorgasbord of flavors, including Blue Hawaii, Camelot, Cupid, Disco, Egyptian, Gangster, Gothic and Victorian. Elvis has not

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left this building: The E&P Suite, named for Elvis and Priscilla, features a pink Cadillac bed with a wrought-iron replica of Graceland's gates for a headboard.

With the Las Vegas family-fun experiment kaput, Sin City is sinful again. The most happening club scene is at the Palms Casino Hotel, where there's always lots of eye candy, including celebs aplenty. Be sure to change out of your golf togs before making the scene at Ghostbar. Ghostbarflies be warned: The weekend cover charge is $20, and the line out front can cost you an hour.

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