Lochinvar Golf Club was the venue of the first Jack Nicklaus course to be designed in Texas back in 1980 with fairways laid out on a tight, forested site next to Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental airport.
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Lochinvar Golf Club was the venue of the first Jack Nicklaus course to be designed in Texas back in 1980 with fairways laid out on a tight, forested site next to Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental airport.
Lochinvar Golf Club was the venue of the first Jack Nicklaus course to be designed in Texas back in 1980 with fairways laid out on a tight, forested site next to Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental airport. Holes are routed across a very flat site, with water coming into play from time to time during the round.
In his book The American Private Golf Club Guide author Daniel Wexler describes the layout as “a moderately sized test (with) a fair number of challenging holes… though, in general, there are not quite as many tactical decisions to be made here as at many of Nicklaus’s subsequent designs.”
Feature holes include the left doglegging par four 3rd (with a creek on the left which crosses in front of a slightly raised green); the par five 9th (which is the former finishing hole with a long water hazard to the left of the fairway); and long par four 12th, veering left from the tee to a fairway that narrows towards the green.
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