La Cantera (Palmer) - CLOSED

Opened in 2001, the 18-hole Palmer course at La Cantera Golf Club is a wonderful complementary layout to the Resort course that Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish completed six years earlier at the same venue.

The following edited extract is taken from Daniel Wexler’s The American Golf Resort Guide:

“Occupying high ground adjacent to Six Flags Fiesta Texas, the La Cantera Resort came quickly to prominence via its Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish-designed Resort course hosting the PGA Tour’s Texas Open from 1995 to 2009.

Somewhat tougher is the newer Palmer course which plays out of a separate clubhouse to the west of the main resort property. Nearly 100 yards shorter, yet rated a stroke and a half higher, it is another scenic test whose front nine most occupies lower ground to the east.

Favorites here include the 449-yard 2nd (played to a sand and tree-guarded green), the 188-yard over-water 4th and the 448-yard 5th, a twisting, demanding uphill par four and the number one stroke hole).

The back nine then traverses some less-developed territory to the northwest and features the 415-yard uphill 10th (whose green is perched above a rock wall) and the 156-yard 17th, which descends to a green benched into a broad hillside.”

UPDATE

In December 2021 the Palmer course at La Cantera closed. For more information read more here.