Wild Horse Golf Club

You’ll need to head for the prairies of Nebraska to play one of the best value courses in the US. The course at Wild Horse Golf Club was designed by Dave Axland & Dan Proctor – who have a track record of designing quality golf courses that are great value to play – and it opened for play in 1999. Axland & Proctor worked for Ben Crenshaw’s design company for more than ten years and their first solo project at Delaware Springs is one of Texas’s best kept secrets.

The inclusion of Wild Horse in our 2006 US Top 100 rankings raised a few eyebrows, but we felt its entry was valid as we're are always thrilled to shine a light on unhearalded courses.

In Tom Doak’s Little Red Book of Golf Course Architecture, the author commented as follows: “Look at Wild Horse… a very good golf course but one which nobody really goes gaga over, because it doesn’t have loads of bunkers and because it’s inexpensive to play. Everybody likes it, but hardly anyone really supports it as one of the great courses in America; it’s often dismissed as a “poor man’s Sand Hills,” precisely because it doesn’t have a lot of superfluous bunkers.”

Excellent pay-and-play golf courses are few and far between, but Wild Horse fits squarely into this bracket. With a scattering of wonderfully natural “blow-out” bunkers and tall native grasses waving in the prairie winds, Wild Horse is one of the most challenging and affordable municipal courses you could desire.