The Woodlands Country Club (Tournament)

The Tournament course is a former Houston Open venue and this Robert von Hagge and Bruce Devlin-designed layout was the first of the four 18-hole courses to appear at The Woodlands Country Club in 1978.

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

“The Woodlands is perhaps Texas’s most golf-oriented address, with its 63-hole Country Club long standing as the cornerstone of area development. The standard-bearing Tournament course has only existed in its present form since Robert von Hagge reworked his own 1978 layout in 1985.

While offering little ground breaking design, it remained capable of holding spectator interest with its plentiful use of water, especially at holes like the 158-yard 3rd and 414-yard 7th. Most memorable, however, are the old TV holes like the 382-yard 17th and the 442-yard 18th, each playing to pond-flanked greens.”

The club hosted the Houston Open from 1975 to 2002 and The Tournament course was also the venue when Anne Sanders claimed the second of her four U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur titles in 1989.