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Your spouse a golf nut, but you can't stand the game? Viva Las Vegas!
 Golfpublisher.com The dramatic drops of The Falls can help lure your golf-addicted partner to Las Vegas.
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Your spouse is a golf nut and you’re not. In fact, you couldn’t tell the difference between a 9-iron and a waffle iron and you have no desire to find out, which makes planning nearly every vacation a potential battleground.
Your golfing better half is pushing for some place where he or she can play interesting courses designed by big name architects - the kind of courses that will give them plenty of stories to brag to the buddies and co-workers about back home. Only, you know from experience, that this can mean a string of boring days stuck in a hotel room or an outlet mall for you, the golf widow or golf widower.
Who can ever forget those two weeks in Myrtle Beach your golf-obsessed partner talked you into? No matter how much one tries. The time to make your pitch is definitely now. You need a destination that’s going to wow your Golf Channel-fixated spouse, while providing you with even more fun opportunities. It’s time to think Las Vegas.
Don’t just start gushing about the new casino, the spas that could pass for palaces or the nonstop excitement though. And don’t even think of mentioning those "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas" TV commercials.
This is a sell that must be made diplomatically. Push the Vegas sizzle angle too hard and your spouse will become convinced that his or her golf love is not being taken seriously. Instead, start leaving brochures or Internet story printouts around your house featuring Vegas courses like Jack Nicklaus’ crowd-pleasing Bear’s Best (Tel. 800 470-4622), Tom Weiskopf’s dramatically showy The Falls (Tel. 800 841-6570), Tom Fazio’s hidden desert hideaway Primm Valley (Tel. 800 470-4622) and Pete Dye’s Herculean punishing Paiute Wolf (Tel. 800 823-2873).
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"I call it letting nature take its course," said Cindy Reilson of Houston, who long convinced her golf-committed husband that Las Vegas was their perfect regular dual satisfying vacation spot. "Let them tell you how great it is and that you need to go. Of course, you secretly help them along in deciding it’s great by dropping little clues. But make sure they think it’s their idea.
"What wife doesn’t know how to do that?"
THE SCENE
Kicking back on the patio of Falls Golf Club, feet up and golf bags at their side, Randy Shuck and Ty Tvedten look like the picture of contentment. They’d just finished a round of Weiskopf’s dizzying climbs, steep plunges and dazzling views. The sun’s shinning bright. It’s not too hot, not too cold. It’s the end of a week-long run of high-end Vegas golf.
What could be better?
The two Tampa buddies wear the smug smile of guys certain that they’ve pulled one over on their unsuspecting wives.
"Our wives love it when we come to Vegas to golf," Tvedeton said.
"Yeah, this is one golf trip where they don’t give us any hassle at all," Shuck said.
Where are their wives now?
"Back at the hotel, in the casino or shopping," Tvedeton said.
Tvedeton and Shuck’s smiles slowly dissolved.
"Credit cards," Shuck said simply. "They’re can do a lot more damage in five hours in Vegas than we can in five hours out here on the golf course."
"You know, considering what you could spend in one hour gambling, this is probably the cheapest place we can be in town," Tvedeton said, not so excitedly.
Who outsmarted whom?
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