Hank Greenspun

Hank Greenspun’s place in Las Vegas sports begins with a golf course. The Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame credits the publisher with creating Paradise Valley Country Club. Over the years the property carried names including Showboat, Los Verdes, Indian Wells and Royal Kenfield before adopting Wildhorse in 1994.

The course’s tournament past links Greenspun’s development work to professional golf and the resort economy. Its official history identifies him as the original developer and Howard Hughes as a subsequent owner. Sources differ on the sale year: Wildhorse lists 1968, while a 2019 local golf history says 1969. Both describe the same transfer; the date remains attributed rather than treated as settled.

Greenspun is better known as the Las Vegas Sun publisher and a major landowner. PBS’s American Experience biography connects his property holdings to the land that became Green Valley. His sports legacy here is the course itself: redesigned in 2004, municipally owned by Henderson, and still a place to play rather than only a vanished name in a tournament report.