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guide. No drawings were used to design the golf course holes before construction
began, just a mental sketch in Dennis' head. Dennis worked alongside the buldozers
and tractors each day, thus allowing the land to design the course. The result was a
golf experience that surpasses most existing courses while retaining natural desert
landscape. Golf course design, at its highest levels, requires a wide variety of club
selection and numerous shot challenges to play, and Wolf Creek at Paradise Canyon
is certainly no exception to the rule, with shot making challenges that bring every
club out of the bag. The extreme measures Dennis and Jon Rider took to build Wolf
Creek without disturbing natural desert terrain, sandstone cliffs and native flora and
fauna is evident everywhere one looks. Grass was grown from turf rather than seeds
and the Riders kept heavy machinery off the grass by filling the bunkers with sand
flown in by helicopter. They worked to ensure proper handling of the area's wildlife
which includes coyote, jackrabbit, roadrunner, desert tortoise, and chipmonk. These
extra precautions pushed costs on the Wolf Creek project to around $50 million, but
created a unique world-class golf environment.