Pros:
A mostly open 9er that nonetheless presents reasonable challenge, considerable distance, and distinctive hazard areas.
-Amenities: Concrete tees, numbered DISCatchers, signs with all info and good maps. Some caveats on the signs - they're fading, the pars are quite high, and some of the distances seem a little on the short side.
-Maintenance: Well-trimmed, green grass. Clean tees. Additionally, the course's signature feature - lined beds of pebbles with trees in them - were immaculately kept. It has the feel of a golf course. Well done, local crew.
-Flow: Logical transitions minimizing between-hole walks.
-"Friendly": Easy to play, and hard to lose discs. Well, unless you go dead straight 320' into the dumpsters instead of turning right on (4), but *I* wouldn't know that.
-Shot Shaping/Gameplay: Mostly straight shots, but made difficult by the signature rock beds. Most holes are coming in over 300', which requires a decent rip on a driver for most players. The shapes are gentle bends or straight shots, but things are complicated by the continual presence of OB rock beds that will take any errant throw. It's hard to play it safe here often, and the penalty strokes will come for almost anyone. The back four have some good multi-shot opportunities to stretch it out. Thanks to the rock beds, you'll have to curve gently and control the skip on these holes, but a bomber could easily go over top and spike hyzer everything to eliminate that aspect of challenge. As a player that throws about 300' average and prefers fairway drivers, this was a really nice point of difficulty for a lighthearted but slightly challenging round.
Cons:
Several small-to-medium things throughout.
-Elevation: Dead flat. So very flat. This place makes my homemade pancakes look like the Himalayas.
-Artificial OB: I know there are varied opinions on this. I actually didn't mind the OB per se (the short trees help with the appeal), but the course definitely loses points for having a poor risk/reward factor. You should almost always go for the bigger shot, because it's really hard to lay up confidently with skippy grass.
-Baskets in Danger: There were some baskets throughout that were in harms' way of future teepads. Nothing egregious, but it would pay to know if there are any beginners on the course as you're navigating greens.
-DX Destruction: A lot of reviewers have commented on the pebble gardens chewing up discs. I had zero issues, but I'm sure baseline plastic takes a beating here.
-True Shaping: With the trees so short, and the fairways being defined by organically curved pebble beds, there isn't the kind of shot shaping that a technical player would enjoy.
Other Thoughts:
As a bagger, I play so many lousy nine-hole courses that it's easy to dismiss the idea as a whole. Red Ridge dispels that feeling, affirming that nine-hole courses can fill a very nice slot in a city's lineup. If you take the artificial OB seriously, it's an intermediate-level challenge that will keep you on your toes throughout while not being too demanding. It's got great infrastructure, and it fills something of a void in the sparse Las Vegas scene. That said, it's dead flat, mostly very open, and features no obstacle that a power thrower couldn't go over. On the whole, it gets a Typical rating - nothing too special, but very enjoyable.
~Similar Courses: This one is pretty unique for the golf vibes and signature rock beds. It's vaguely similar to other tracks mainly in its predominantly straight and flat play with a modest number of avoidable objects. Consider Frog Rock (Austell, GA), North Midway Park (Broomfield, CO), and Henry Horton SP (Chapel Hill, TN) to be as similar as they get.