Somersett Country Club vs Toiyabe Golf Club

Toiyabe Golf Club sits in Washoe Valley and Somersett Country Club in Reno — close enough that most buyers looking at one will look at the other. The first difference is access: Toiyabe Golf Club is semi-private and Somersett Country Club is private, so they are not competing for the same buyer so much as offering two different deals. Somersett Country Club has 27 holes across 2 courses against 18 at Toiyabe Golf Club, which changes how often you replay the same routing more than any amenity on either list does. The designs come from Robert Muir Graves (with Steve Pate and Damian Pascuzzo) and Tom Kite, Roy Bechtol, Randolph P. Russell respectively. Toiyabe Golf Club opened in 1994, 10 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. Toiyabe Golf Club documents golf academy that Somersett Country Club does not publish; Somersett Country Club documents golf simulator that Toiyabe Golf 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.