Reflection Bay to host golf tourney

     Reflection Bay Golf Club, the first of three planned resort courses for Lake Las Vegas Resort, is ready to host the 1998 Wendy's Three-Tour Challenge tournament on Nov. 10.
      This is the third consecutive year the resort has hosted the tourney, which pits three-member teams from the PGA Tour, Senior PGA Tour and LPGA Tour against each other.
      John Herndon, director of golf at the resort, said construction of the course was recently completed.
      "This tournament will debut this resort course to a national audience, and the professionals and spectators for this year's tournament will find an exciting course full of challenges," Herndon said.
      The tournament, which benefits the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, will be broadcast on network television in mid-December.
      The course is the second Jack Nicklaus-signature course at the resort, and the first open to the public. It was sculpted from the desert's natural contours and is framed by Lake Las Vegas, Nevada's largest privately owned lake.
      Plans for MonteLago, on the north shore, include golf courses, resort hotels, European-style gaming, residential villas, a world-class spa facility, dining facilities and a commercial resort. When completed, SouthShore will comprise about 360 luxury homes. Custom-home sites range from the mid-$200,000s to $1.75 million.
      Bella Vivente courtyard villas is a development of AmStar Universal. David R. McEntire, company principal said nearly all of the villas have been sold.
      "We have gone to great lengths to create this one-of-a-kind community," McEntire said. "We are not only offering highly exquisite and limited homes at Bella Vivente, but have gone a step further in creating an enchanting environment -- the combination of a beautifully designed home, the land and the limitless lifestyle."
      The resort is being developed by Transcontinental Properties Inc., a subsidiary of Transcontinental Corp., as developer, with entities owned by Sid and Lee Bass of Fort Worth, Texas.
      To visit, take Interstate 515 to Lake Mead Drive and travel east to Lake Las Vegas Parkway. The information center is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.