Drive the entrance road into Seven Hills off Grand Hills Drive and you'll pass the same gatehouse, the same mature landscaping, the same view down into the canyons that has framed this community for almost thirty years. What's different is the sign at the golf course gate. Where "Rio Secco" sat since the course opened in 1997, there's now a scorpion emblem and a name most longtime residents still stumble over the first time they say it out loud: Serket.
If you've lived here a while, you already noticed. Maybe you saw it on a scorecard, or a neighbor mentioned it at Janelas after a Saturday round, or you just clocked the new signage on a drive to Smith's. What you may not have gotten yet is the why, and the why is more interesting than a logo refresh.
What Actually Happened on September 20
The course reopened under its new identity on September 20, 2025. Cabot, the golf-first operator that also runs Cascata across town, unveiled the rebrand alongside a new scorpion mark drawn from Serket, the ancient Egyptian goddess of protection. Cabot's own executive team framed it as a fresh chapter rather than a fresh coat of paint, with Jeff Krohn, executive vice president of Cabot-Managed Properties, telling press the team could not wait "to officially reopen on September 20 as Serket."
That's the surface story, and most of the coverage that followed stopped there. It's a decent story. It's not the one that matters if you live three streets from the 16th green.
The Part That Actually Explains the Next Decade
Here's the detail that gets buried under the scorpion logo: ownership of the course never changed. VICI Properties, the real estate investment trust that owns the land and the golf assets, still owns them. What changed is who runs the day to day, and that happened three years before anyone touched the name. Cabot assumed operations of Rio Secco and VICI's other golf properties under a 20-year management agreement signed in 2022. The 2025 rebrand was Cabot finally putting its own name on an asset it had already been running for three years.
That distinction matters because of what kind of operator Cabot is. Before 2022, this course ran as a resort-golf amenity inside a Caesars-affiliated portfolio, priced and staffed around hotel occupancy and comped play tied to a Total Rewards card. Cabot's business is different. It's a golf-first operator that builds and manages destination golf properties on their own terms, not as a perk bolted onto a casino floor. A GolfPass writeup from the course's rebrand weekend put a number on what that shift looks like in practice: high-season greens fees at Serket running $225 and up, with "Double Down" packages that pair a round here with a round at sister course Cascata priced from $525 in summer to $675 in fall. That's destination-brand pricing, built for golfers who are choosing this course on purpose rather than golfers comped a tee time because they dropped money at a blackjack table the night before.
For residents, the practical read is this: the course at the center of the neighborhood now answers to a golf company's incentives instead of a casino's occupancy math. Course conditioning, staffing, and the overall guest experience are now the entire business, not a line item supporting a hotel property elsewhere in town.
| Before Cabot (through 2022) | Under Cabot (2022 to present) | |
|---|---|---|
| Operator | Caesars-affiliated resort golf | Cabot, golf-first destination operator |
| Core incentive | Hotel occupancy and comped play | Standalone golf revenue |
| Pricing posture | Resort comp-driven | Dynamic, destination pricing |
| Sister property packaging | Loosely bundled with Caesars amenities | Explicitly paired with Cascata on shared booking |
| Name on the sign | Rio Secco (through September 2025) | Serket (since September 20, 2025) |
What the Rebrand Didn't Touch
None of this changed the golf course itself, and that's worth saying plainly for anyone worried their home course got worse along with a name they didn't ask for.
- The routing is the same Rees Jones design from 1997, with Jones himself, known in the industry as the U.S. Open Doctor, returning in 2017 to refresh greens, bunkers, and forward tees.
- The Butch Harmon School of Golf, where Harmon has coached players including Tiger Woods, whose course record here still stands at 64, is still on site.
- Janelas Restaurant & Bar, the clubhouse spot regulars use for a post-round beer, hasn't moved or changed hands.
- The tournament history that put this course on the map, including the Tiger Woods Jam and the VegasGolfer Pro Showdown, is expected to continue under the new name.
The three-part routing longtime players describe over drinks at Janelas is still the same three-part routing: six holes through steep canyons, six across a high plateau with sweeping Las Vegas Valley views, six through a broad desert wash. Rees Jones built that. A rebrand doesn't touch land.
Two Miles South, Another Reroute
If Serket is the change you can see from the street, there's a quieter one a short drive south that affects anyone who hikes or bikes toward Sloan Canyon on weekends. The Bureau of Land Management has Nawghaw Poa Road and its end-of-road parking area closed through November 11, 2026, while crews build a permanent visitor contact station at the Sloan Canyon National Conservation Area. The Petroglyph Canyon Trail and the 101 Trail, the routes most Seven Hills residents use to reach the canyon's rock art panels, more than 300 of them carrying roughly 1,700 individual designs, have been rerouted, with parking temporarily relocated to Democracy Drive.
If you haven't been out that way since before the closure started, the trailhead you remember isn't the one you'll find. The BLM's own notice is the source to check before you go, since the reroute maps have been updated more than once as construction has progressed.
The Errand Run Nobody Rebranded
Not everything near Seven Hills is in flux. Horizon Marketplace, the Smith's-anchored center at Horizon Ridge Parkway and Eastern Avenue, is still doing exactly what it's done for years: serving the daily errands of Seven Hills, Anthem, and MacDonald Ranch without any of the operator drama happening a few miles up the hill at the golf course. Sometimes the most useful thing a neighborhood update can tell you is what didn't need one.
The Actual Takeaway
A name change is easy to notice and easy to shrug off. What actually happened here is that the course sitting at the geographic and social center of Seven Hills spent three years quietly changing hands from a casino's amenity desk to a company that only exists to run golf courses well, and only put its name on the sign once that shift was complete. The Rees Jones holes, the Butch Harmon instruction, the view down the canyon toward the Strip: none of that moved. What moved is who's incentivized to keep it in shape for the next twenty years, and that's a better story for the neighborhood than a scorpion logo suggests on its own.
If you're weighing what any of this means for property values, resale timing, or how Seven Hills compares to neighboring master plans like Anthem Country Club or MacDonald Highlands, that's a longer conversation, and one The Zhu Realty Group has on a regular basis with Seven Hills owners. Reach out for a Free Home Valuation or to schedule a Listing Consultation whenever you're ready to talk specifics.