Lost Pines Golf Club

The Colorado River skirts the east flank of the Arthur Hills-designed course at Lost Pines Golf Club (formerly known as Wolfdancer Golf Club) and, indeed, stray shots down the right of the closing holes might just end up in the water.

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

“Sitting along a quiet, wooded stretch of the Colorado River, Lost Pines is a strong and engaging Arthur Hills layout that operates in association with an on-site Hyatt resort. Built over rolling, sometimes challenging terrain, there are a handful of predictable features here but they are easily outnumbered by interesting and often unique tests.

The front nine offers perhaps the property’s most memorable hole at the 603-yard 3rd (whose ridgetop location yields spectacular views) and follows it up with three widely varied tests; the 233-yard semi-blind 4th, the 337-yard ravine-fronted 7th and the 483-yard 8th, whose angled green is benched into a hillside.

The shorter inward half begins with a bang at the 345-yard dogleg left 11th (driveable, but across sand and a small creek) and the dramatic 155-yard 12th, which drops to a green teetering on a steep hillside. From here, play descends to a pair of riverside finishers, the 207-yard 17th and the 535-yard 18th, where a line of bunkers affects second-shot strategy.”