Truth be told, if Adam had timed his patented "Clayman Power-Cut" at the right moment, he would have dinged the fusilage of that plane. We discovered that 727's take off a bit lower than most other aircraft.
However, there was nothing else to do with that property, unless you wanted to see a 9/11 episode every day into the side of highrise casino.
That said, this golf course is not that awful and serves its purpose exactly as intended. It is close to the strip, user friendly, and has the requisite Las Vegas gimmic - in this case mounds of crushed granite and scraggly plants at the perimeter of the playing areas mocked up to look like an outtake from South Pacific.
It does not beat up golfers, none of whom come to Sin City for an education in the finer points of strategic design. It also gets everyone around the golf course in a short enough time to get back and lose more money.
Tommy, how the heck can you be so OFFENDED by this silly golf course and then sit there with me in the middle of the night and watch an unimaginably cheesy pirate show in front of our hotel?
Everything in Las Vegas has a motif because there is nothing indigenous to the land but rattle snakes, sand and cactus. Whaddddya expect when we went out there?
Put your dogma aside for a moment laddie, nobody is pretending that ridiculous thing ought to be taken seriously. I'll be Schmidt and Curley laughed like hell through the entire construction project, but Bali Hai is a perfect reflection of Las Vegas.
The actual golf course is not as hideous as you make it out to be, and if you subtract the airplanes and ignore the set design, I have played at least 100 courses worse than this. The putting surfaces are pretty decent, the bunkering makes sense and the containment mounding is intended to keep the same idiots moving whose bunkers I raked on nearly every hole.
Now, I agree that for $325 they can pound their crushed marbel where the moon don't shine, but is that any worse than the egregious fees at places like Pelican Hill? Yeah, the surrounds are better, but The Strip is the place to be for millions of people and you are five minutes away at Bali Hai.
How about the clubhouse? Don't tell me you were uncomfortable in those comfy chairs with the big screen TV right in front of us.
Bali Hai is not about golf! It is about mindless entertainment -like an episode of Baywatch. Get over it. We played, we had fun and personally I got a kick out of the wierdness of it all. After Desert Pines, nothing looks THAT strange or contrived anymore.