Cimarron Hills Golf Club

Cimarron Hills features an impressive Jack Nicklaus designed course in a first-class country club setting, which is fortunately open for public play while the residential community builds itself out. Featuring bent-grass greens that are rare these days in Texas, Cimarron goes a mean 7,302 yards from the tips, but offers three other sets of tees that range from 6,800 to 6,276 yards.

The number one handicap hole resides on the front, the 474-yard, par 4 No. 4, which allows you to let it loose off the tee of this dogleg left hole. Leave the tee shot on the right so you have a clear shot into the green. You’ll need that view because it’s probably going to be a 3-wood on the monster approach into an angled green guarded by bunkers.

No. 9 is one of the better par 3s, the second longest par 3 on the course. Watch the wind because you’ll need to carry the 215 yards of native grasses and shrubs between the tee and green.

Cimarron has packaged their “Club Club Cottage Vacation Getaway”, so don’t forget to inquire about the details when you plan your trip to Georgetown.

Getting there : From Austin, take I- 35 north to exit 261 in Georgetown. At the first stop light, turn left onto West Hwy. 29. The club is located 5.8 miles on the right.