Take a closer look at Wolfdancer Golf Club, a resort course near Austin that sits on former Native American land, once occupied by the Tonkawa tribe. The golf course gets its name from the ceremonial, wolf dances for which the Tonakawas were known. It mixes three unique environments, featuring wide fairways and small greens.
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Cordillera Ranch is a private golf facility, open since 2007, for those who live in the Cordillera Ranch community. The Nicklaus Signature course plays 7,464 yards from the championship tees and features rock outcroppings and views of the Guadalupe River Valley.
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The Ted Robinson-designed Bear Creek Golf Club in Dallas is among the area's favorite classic golf courses. Located near the DFW Airport - just minutes from Interstates 635, 35E and 30 - Bear Creek has been lauded by Avid Golfer magazine as the area's "Best Place to Host a Corporate Event."
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The Republic Golf Club is one of San Antonio's newest and most highly acclaimed daily fee clubs of the last several years. Designed by Art Schaupeter in 2002, the course is set on the flatter side of the city in the southeast, and features wide fairways that are almost all tree lined.
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Brackenridge Park Golf Course has been a San Antonio mainstay since 1915, when legendary "Golden Age" architect A.W. Tillinghast laid the course out. Since then, it has hosted some of the state's top events and players, and it recently underwent a major restoration.
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The Westin La Cantera's Palmer Course was designed by Arnold Palmer and opened in 2001, set northwest of San Antonio in the heart of the Hill Country. The property used to construct this course is at many points more severe and undulating compared to the original Resort Course, which was built in 1995 and has since hosted the Valero Texas Open.
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It's pretty rare to find a calm day on the south Texas coast, so fortunately, when Chris Cole and Stephen Caplinger designed South Padre Island Golf Club in Laguna Vista, Texas, they had the prevailing wind in mind. The semi-private club isn't pure links, but the individual holes are very much links-style, given that wind figured into the design of all of them.
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The Ram Rock course at the Horseshoe Bay Resort is a Robert Trent Jones Sr. design from 1981 and the second of three golf courses he built at the Horseshoe Bay Resort in central Texas. Set on 147 hilly acres, Ram Rock is widely considered the most difficult of the three courses at the resort and features narrow fairways, large bunkering and many raised, bentgrass greens.
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Forest Creek Golf Club is a Dick Phelps design from 1990 that runs through a newer upscale residential community north of Austin. It's very walker-friendly, with a modest local membership, and there are exceptional practice facilities here, from a three-tiered driving range to multiple short game greens.
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The Lakes Course at Firewheel is one of those layouts that can trigger fierce debate among players. Some folks may truly enjoy the relentless guessing game that is a first round here. Tricky shots keep some golfers interested. Others, though, might tire very quickly of the tricked-up nature of the 7,134-yard Dick Phelps design.
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