Texas Golf Resort Reviews
Lakeway Resort and Spa in Austin: Distinctive Lake Travis setting delivers access to exclusive golf
Lakeway Resort and Spa holds its own among the top resorts in Texas with its own distinct amenities, including access to three private golf courses. The resort's location boasts something that is unique to itself, though: a one-of-a-kind setting perched on the banks of Lake Travis in the Texas Hill Country just west of Austin. Taking on its own ambiance, Lakeway invites a cozy, more club-like vibe where guests feel they have the run of the joint.
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New and improved Tapatio Springs ready to take its place among the better Texas Hill Country golf resorts
Country singer George Strait and Tom Cusick have joined forces to revitalize Tapatio Springs Resort and Conference Center in Boerne, located about 20 miles northwest of San Antonio. "Tom and I always believed that Tapatio Springs could be a true Texas treasure," Strait said. "The renovations are incredible." Mike Bailey has more.
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Golf trip to San Antonio's Westin La Cantera Resort still a fun ride
The PGA Tour may be gone, but the roller coaster rides around the Westin La Cantera Resort remain. Whether it's in the literal sense - as in the Six Flags theme park next door - or on the two golf courses, La Cantera still has a few thrills for its visitors. As the PGA Tour moves across town to the new TPC San Antonio starting in 2010, the Westin La Cantera moves into a new era with $12 million in renovations and a new focus.
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New and improved Tapatio Springs ready to take its place among the better Texas Hill Country golf resorts
Country singer George Strait and Tom Cusick have joined forces to revitalize Tapatio Springs Resort and Conference Center in Boerne, located about 20 miles northwest of San Antonio. "Tom and I always believed that Tapatio Springs could be a true Texas treasure," Strait said. "The renovations are incredible." Mike Bailey has more.
... full article »Golf trip to San Antonio's Westin La Cantera Resort still a fun ride
The PGA Tour may be gone, but the roller coaster rides around the Westin La Cantera Resort remain. Whether it's in the literal sense - as in the Six Flags theme park next door - or on the two golf courses, La Cantera still has a few thrills for its visitors. As the PGA Tour moves across town to the new TPC San Antonio starting in 2010, the Westin La Cantera moves into a new era with $12 million in renovations and a new focus.
... full article »Famed Dome Bar makes Camino Real the top choice for an El Paso golf stay
Many people come to El Paso just to cross over into Mexico, but the Camino Real hotel and its acclaimed Dome Bar, plus a low-cost golf scene highlighted by a new Tom Fazio course, are reasons to stay north of the border.
... full article »The Woodlands just managed to get even better
"Everything is bigger in Texas". When it comes to golf, nothing is bigger or more worth bragging about than The Woodlands. Start with a Tournament Players Course that hosted a PGA Tour stop for 17 years and then toss in private courses designed by Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Arnold Palmer, with yet another on the way from Tom Fazio.
... full article »Horseshoe Bay Resort: Happiness Is A Challenge Named Ram Rock
On a cool Hill Country day in early spring two Horseshoe Bay residents, Lewis Coalter and Edwin Finley, teed it up on the famed Ram Rock Course and didn't mind at all that the layout was tough and unforgiving. They know on any given day it could bring them to their knees.
... full article »Del Lago Golf Resort: Cleboski’s Dreams Come True On Lake Conroe
The day Fred Couples came to Del Lago Golf Resort and Conference Center was just one of many career highlights for Director of Golf Bobby Cleboski -- just another golf story this retired Houston police officer can tell younger generations.
... full article »Westin Stonebriar Resort: Dirt-Moving Fazio Sculpts New Prize In North Texas
Tom Fazio likes to move dirt. He must also enjoy seeing three-putts. At Fazio's new Westin Stonebriar Resort course, the celebrated golf-course designer has finally made an entrance into North Texas golf, and besides moving 600,000 yards of earth, he laid out undulating putting surfaces that roll almost as quickly as a Titleist off the hood of a Dodge truck.
... full article »Hyatt Hill Country Resort: Texas, Southwestern Hospitality Surrounds You
Ed Wiseman first walked the land that is now home to the Hyatt Hill Country Resort in 1933 as a young cowboy from LaVernia in Wilson County, Texas -- a place his family had farmed and ranched since 1851.
... full article »Garden Valley Golf Resort: Is it Really the Augusta National of Texas?
For the most part, golfers are a simple and trusting lot. All they want is an honest course to attempt to conquer this ever-maddening game.
... full article »Minnesota's Grand View Lodge: Great Golf and More North of the Twin Cities
The Grand View Lodge founded the golf boom in the Brainerd Lakes region, and the resort continues to push it to new heights. Grand View has been entertaining tourists on Gull Lake in central Minnesota since 1919, but the resort didn't jump on the golf bandwagon until the last decade. In the land of 10,000 lakes, fishing has always been the king of summer sports in Minnesota, but golf clubs are starting to replace the fishing poles in the trunks of people's cars around here.
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