Golf Trips with Casino
The best golf trips don't end at the 18th. Casino is the part your crew still argues about on the drive home. We tracked down 53 destinations across America where the golf is worth the flight and the casino is worth the day off the course — so nobody has to pick one.
Every destination below includes detailed course breakdowns, lodging options for groups, restaurant picks, and nightlife — plus specific casino venues with pricing, duration, and what to expect. Hit the planner to build a complete itinerary around your group's priorities in a couple of minutes.
These 53 destinations span 24 states across 9 regions of the country, so there's a golf-plus-casino option within a short flight of most major cities. Casino runs from around $0 per person at the most affordable spot on the list, with plenty of upgrade options if the group wants to splurge on one big activity for the trip.
The best group trips usually pencil in casino for a half-day between rounds — morning tee time, afternoon activity, dinner after — rather than trying to squeeze it in around a full 36-hole day. If your crew wants casino to be the centerpiece rather than a side quest, several of the destinations below are built around it, with courses close enough to town that the golf doesn't have to compete for calendar space.
Best Destinations for Golf + Casino
Tucson, AZ
Desert golf, Mexican food, and a chill pace
Mesquite, NV
Budget desert golf with casino-town swagger
Santa Fe, NM
Art, adobe, and high-altitude mountain golf
Las Vegas, NV
The ultimate boys-trip city with world-class desert golf
Reno, NV
Mountain golf, casinos, and craft beer in the Biggest Little City
Albuquerque, NM
High desert golf with craft beer and green chile on everything
Laughlin, NV
Cheap casino town on the Colorado with sneaky good golf
Payson, AZ
Mountain escape golf 90 minutes north of Phoenix
Coeur d'Alene, ID
Lake town golf with a floating green
Spokane, WA
Affordable Inland NW golf with a punchy downtown bar scene
Deadwood, SD
Wild West casino town with Black Hills golf and zero pretension
French Lick, IN
Historic resort golf, casino, and bourbon country
Biloxi, MS
Casino nightlife meets championship Gulf Coast golf
Saratoga Springs, NY
Horse racing, healing springs, and championship golf in upstate elegance
Poconos, PA
Mountain resort golf with casino nights and adventure parks
Atlantic City, NJ
Casino nightlife meets surprisingly solid South Jersey golf
Hershey, PA
Chocolate-town resort golf with surprising depth and amusement park thrills
Mystic, CT
Coastal Connecticut charm with casino backup plans and quality golf
Hot Springs, AR
Historic spa town golf in the Ouachita Mountains
Louisville, KY
Bourbon Trail golf with Valhalla prestige and Derby City nightlife
Tulsa, OK
Southern Hills prestige meets Blue Dome nightlife at budget prices
Oklahoma City, OK
Bricktown nightlife, prairie golf, and OKC Thunder energy
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
Casino golf on the Red River with budget-friendly everything
Little Rock, AR
River Market nightlife, affordable Ozark-edge golf, and genuine Southern charm
Baton Rouge, LA
LSU tailgate energy, Cajun food, and bayou golf at bargain prices
Palm Springs, CA
Sunshine, mid-century cool, and wall-to-wall desert golf
Palm Desert, CA
PGA West, Stadium glory, and the valley's best public courses
Los Angeles, CA
Cliffside Trump National, sneaky-good munis, and big-city nights
Temecula, CA
Wine country, casino nights, and value golf between LA and San Diego
Sacramento, CA
Value golf, a real downtown, and wine country at the edges
Nassau, Bahamas
Nicklaus & Weiskopf links a short hop from the US
Memphis, TN
Justin Timberlake's course, Delta golf, and Beale Street
Akron, OH
Play 'The Monster' where the World Golf Championship lived
Toledo, OH
Lake Erie public golf plus a brush with U.S. Open history
Dayton, OH
Award-winning public golf in the birthplace of aviation
Hutchinson, KS
Make the pilgrimage to Prairie Dunes — Kansas's top-25 sandhills classic
Prescott, AZ
Mile-high pines and Whiskey Row, two hours from Phoenix
Marana, AZ
27 holes of Nicklaus tournament golf in the Tortolitas
Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ
Cool White Mountains pines — Arizona's summer golf escape
Ruidoso, NM
Cool-pines mountain golf, horse racing, and casino nights
White Sulphur Springs, WV
America's grandest resort — golf, casino, and bourbon in the Alleghenies
Farmington, PA
Pete Dye in the Laurel Highlands — golf, casino, and a private wildlife park
Philadelphia, PA
Big-city nightlife with classic public golf in the suburbs
Long Island (Farmingdale), NY
Bethpage Black and a wall of world-class public golf
Verona, NY
Three championship courses and a full casino under one roof
Lake George, NY
Donald Ross lakeside golf in the Adirondacks
Mashantucket, CT
Rees Jones golf wired straight into Foxwoods Casino
Frisco, TX
The new home of the PGA of America — two championship courses
Corpus Christi, TX
Coastal Texas golf, deep-sea fishing, and beach-bar nights
Bentonville, AR
Ozark golf and the country's best mountain biking, with a buzzing downtown
Gleneden Beach, OR
Scottish-style coastal links on the central Oregon coast
Worley, ID
Idaho's No. 1 public course with a casino attached
South Lake Tahoe, CA
Lakeside championship golf with casinos a short walk away