Best Golf Courses In Texas
Our round up of the best golf courses in Texas includes the first US course that Tiger Woods has designed. The prime influence on Tiger’s debut design is obvious, but he is hardly the only top tournament pro-turned-architect to have been influenced by his playing days when laying down a design. After all, what is perhaps the most talked about hole in Texas was designed by Greg Norman based on one had played on tour…
Austin Country Club
Austin Country Club 17th hole
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- Location: Austin
- Designed by: Pete and Alice Dye
- Par: 72
- Yardage: 7,062 Yards
- Green Fee: Private
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The club was founded in 1899, but has moved twice, and has been at its present home since 1984. Since 2016 it has been the home of the WGC Match Play Championship. The forced carries, whether over canyons or water, help make this a dramatic and demanding layout.
Barton Creek Country Club (Fazio Canyons)
Barton Creek Country Club
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- Location: Austin
- Designed by: Tom Fazio
- Par: 72
- Yardage: 7,153 Yards
- Green Fee: Private
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Framed by red oaks and sycamores, the holes feature elevation changes and large sloping greens. Streams and canyons weave an attractive way throughout the landscape. The first four holes ease you into the round as they are probably the easiest on the course.
Bluejack National
Bluejack National 1st hole
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- Location: Montgomery
- Designed by: Tiger Woods & Beau Welling
- Par: 72
- Yardage: 7,552 Yards
- Green Fee: Private
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Tiger Woods’ first course design in the US opened in 2016 and has a definite feel of Augusta about it. The winner of five Green Jackets has crafted a fresh design over the former site of the short-lived Blaketree National Golf Club with wide fairways, striking bunkers and no rough.
Colonial Country Club
Colonial Country Club 16th hole
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- Location: Fort Worth
- Designed by: John Bredemus & Perry Maxwell
- Par: 70
- Yardage: 7,209 Yards
- Green Fee: Private
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Golf fanatic Marvin Leonard was convinced that the smoothest greens were sown with bentgrass not, as in Texas, of Bermudagrass. Constantly told that bentgrass would not grow well in Texas, and unable to persuade his own course to trial three bentrgass greens which he had offered to pay for, Mr Leonard built his own course in his hometown with bentgrass greens. Thus Colonial came into being. It opened in 1936. In 1941 the US Open came here. Point proved, Mr Leonard…
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