Hidden Valley Country Club vs Somersett Country Club

Somersett Country Club and Hidden Valley Country Club are both in Reno, which makes them a real alternative to one another rather than a hypothetical one. Somersett Country Club has 27 holes across 2 courses against 18 at Hidden Valley Country Club, which changes how often you replay the same routing more than any amenity on either list does. The designs come from Tom Kite, Roy Bechtol, Randolph P. Russell and William F. Bell Jr. respectively. Hidden Valley Country Club opened in 1956, 48 years before Somersett Country Club.

Neither club publishes an initiation fee or dues schedule, so the cost question has to be settled by asking both directly — and asking in writing, because the number quoted on a tour is rarely the number on the agreement. Somersett Country Club documents practice facility, events and banquets and golf simulator that Hidden Valley Country Club does not publish; Hidden Valley Country Club documents swimming pool, fitness center and tennis courts that Somersett Country Club does not. Absence here means we found no public source, not that the facility is missing — worth confirming on a tour if it matters to you. On the evidence we hold: Somersett Country Club if variety of golf is the priority and Hidden Valley Country Club for a household that will use the club midweek.