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Wynn - 2015 - Issue 1 - Spring+Summer

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photography by barbara kraft (this page); jeff green (tag, lockers); jeff gale (golf ball) rooms, which operate more like those at the world's finest private clubs than at a public facility. Attendants unpack travel cases, hang guest outfits in the lockers, clean clubs, polish and respike shoes, affix engraved gold bag tags, and take the "member for a day" concept to new extremes. "We get guests who belong to the premier private clubs around the world, and we want them to feel like they're in their home locker room— except this is Vegas, so some players want a lucky locker number, and we do that," says one of the service-oriented locker room attendants. "We do such a good job on shoes that we had one guest who literally didn't believe they were the same pair he arrived with after we cleaned them up." For guests who like to travel light, Wynn has a special partnership with Callaway, continuously replacing its rental clubs with new top-of- the-line models and stocking regular, women's, stiff, and senior shafts, something that few facilities do. Even rarer is the facility that carries two completely different styles of loaner shoes, all black or white and brown saddle—all the better to match the outfits of fashion-conscious guests. The locker rooms are stocked with fresh fruit, coffee, and bottled water, and at the end of a stay, a guest's bags are repacked and sent to the bell desk for checkout. Service at the golf club is the same as at the five-star hotel above it, and while much occurs before guests even set foot on the 18-hole, 7,042-yard, par-70 course, when they do, they'll notice the atten- tion to detail. The carts have phone chargers and come stocked with a variety of soft drinks, sports drinks, and bottled water, all complimentary. Every round includes a caddie, and more of them are PGA-certified pros than at any other resort in the world—17 in all, including Class-A profession- als like Brad Church, who can offer lessons, on-the-fly instruction, and years of expertise. "Sometimes we get guests from up north shaking off the winter rust here, and they just need a tip or two," Church says. "And where else besides Las Vegas am I going to be able to tell a player to fade his tee shot off the Empire State Building?" The attention to detail extends to the course itself, and while the huge hawk circling over the 15th green has probably never heard of Audubon International's Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf, it seems happy to live on one of the few courses in the nation with such certification. "Steve Wynn has always been a conservation guy, especially when it comes to ani- mals," says Fazio. The program involves identifying and preserving wildlife 70 Wynn Luxury SPoTLIGhT

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