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.
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Nestled down in Lubbock, the Shadow Hills Golf Course is a place for golfing purists. With extra attention paid to course conditioning, friendly customer service and low green fees, Shadow Hills has emerged as one of the top public-course options in Texas. Golfers will be impressed with the newly redesigned clubhouse, but they may be more impressed at how they never end up in a sand trap at the bunker-free golf course.
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The Meadowbrook Golf Complex in Lubbuck boasts two courses with two different flares for the game. With trees, hills and bunkers covering the landscape on the Canyon course, your accuracy will be tested, and with water coming in to play regularly on the Creek course, your nerves will be tested. However, the two diverse courses have helped keep Meadowbrook relevant for decades and loyal golfers keep coming back to this Texas charmer for more.
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Texas Tech University found the right man when they chose Tom Doak to transform a cotton field into a championship golf course. With more 80 traps to punish errant shots, the Rawls Course is more Welsh than West Texan, but the challenging play and reasonable green fees have plenty of golfers willing to play, with some comparing it favorably to local country clubs. Still, the large fairways make it a good play also for high-handicappers.
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Out here you'll find some of the most remote golf courses in the world, and they're not of the typical upscale, daily-fee genres that are so often written about. West Texas is "off the beaten path" at its finest, and because no one has covered these courses, few people know about them. Jason Stone is your guide to a few of the best hidden gems in the area.
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Golf in Northwest Texas might not be as well known as some places, but there are plenty of courses in the Big Country to provide an ample challenge. Places like Hawley, Rotan, Seymour, Throckmorton and Albany are places you could fall in love with, and if you don't believe us, just ask Slingin' Sammy Baugh.
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Thanks to course designer Tom Doak, the newest course in Lubbock is receiving high praise. Also in this month's notebook from senior writer David R. Holland, he reports on more trouble for American Golf, plus news from the Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, where three back-to-back Canadian Golf Tour events will be staged during February and March.
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Here in the northwestern-most corner of Texas, sometimes referred to as the Big Nothing, Lubbock and Amarillo are the only cities with a significant population. As for golf, there are 49 golf towns, 73 golf courses, and 945 golf holes, with more than 90 percent of the facilities open to the public. Of the 49 cities, few have populations of over several thousand or anything beyond a single nine-hole golf course. And you won't find many sand bunkers - the high winds would just blow the sand away.
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The concrete jungles of Texas have their fair share of quality golf, and there are definitely plenty of places to play, but the open roads and flat lands of West Texas are where Lone Star golf takes on a different feel. In fact both golf and traveling in Texas embrace the Zen-like notion that the journey itself, rather than the destination, is the thing. In this spirit we threw our citified golf expectations out the window and went in search of Texas' most diabolical golf courses.
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Kerrville's Whiskey Springs has new life in Hill Country. Troon Golf to manage Traditions Club and Former University of Texas golfer, Steve Termeer, has been named general manager and director of golf for The University of Texas Golf Club, opening later this fall in Steiner Ranch in the April GolfTexas.com notebook.
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