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During these gorgeous summer months, I plan to play a lot of golf with my son, Jaden. You've got to give these great courses a try: 1. Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort: Choose one of three challenging yet fair Pete Dye – designed courses. 2. Southern Highlands Golf Club: If you're lucky enough to be invited to play this ultraexclusive course, consider yourself very lucky indeed. The course is a masterpiece codesigned by the legendary golf architect Robert Trent Jones Sr. and his son Robert Trent Jones Jr. 3. Las Vegas Golf Club: Established in 1938, this oft-forgotten gem is a great value and provides golfers with an old-school tree-lined look. Las Vegas is hot during the summertime. Actually, the word I'd use is "sizzling." Yes, of course our weather is toasty, but I'm referring more to our economic climate. Visitor volume for 2014 surpassed the previous benchmark, set in 2007, with more than 41 million visitors. The misconception is that Vegas tourism dips dur- ing our sizzling summer months, but in fact the exact opposite is true. In 2014, the only months that saw more visitors than July and August were March, May, and October. This July and August, coinciding with the release of our Summer issue, we expect even more people to come to Las Vegas. Our increasing tourist population will also have more hotel choices soon, as once again construction, by the Malaysian developer Genting Group, has begun on the 84 -acre parcel across Las Vegas Boulevard from Wynn. Also, next door to what will be Resorts World, a new development by Crown Resorts is on the hori- zon on the site of the former New Frontier Hotel. Australian billionaire James Packer and Wynn's former president Andrew Pascal are behind this exciting ven- ture, preliminarily called Alon. Lastly, during these summer months, Bellagio, Venetian, and Mandalay Bay are all remodeling rooms, and Mandalay is opening a 350,000 -square-foot exhibit space. Vegas is sizzling! 2 // this issue // on my r adar josef vann Follow me on Twitter at @josefvann and on vegasmagazine.com. photography by robyn andrzejczak (stratta); brian oar with fairway photography (paiute); courtesy of southern highlands golf course (southern highlands) left: With chef extraordinaire Alex Stratta at his extraordinary new restaurant, Tapas by Alex Stratta. inset: With acclaimed French chef Pierre Gagnaire at his Mandarin Oriental restaurant, Twist. 3 1 30 vegasmagazine.com letter from the Publisher