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The 7,480-yard course at Whispering Pines Golf Club is set within a 400-acre property bordered by lakes and meandering creeks.

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Tom Fazio is a man on a mission, a mission to have his name tattooed on many top Texan courses. Naturally, Fazio is the man behind Dallas National Golf Club.

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The 18-hole layout at Bluejack National is the first headline design to open in the United States for Tiger Woods and architect Beau Welling.

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Occupying gently rolling, lightly wooded terrain to the south east of Spicewood, the eighteen holes at Austin Golf Club were draped onto the landscape by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw in 2001.

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Built on what was at that time open, rolling farmland, the lush acres of Brook Hollow Golf Club have unfortunately become surrounded by housing...

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Trinity Forest Golf Club opened for play in October 2016 and it was designed in a links-like style by the hot architectural duo of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. The club hosted the AT&T Byron Nelson tournament in 2018.

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Mike Nuzzo designed the golf course at Wolf Point Ranch in 2009 for the sole use of its owner and his invited guests. Very little soil was shifted and the finished product has attracted accolades from those who have seen it.

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"It is often said that Ben Hogan’s success was partly due to the fact that, having played his early golf at Colonial Country Club, every other course in the world was easy in comparison."

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The Byron Nelson Golf Classic was held at Preston Trail Golf Club between 1968 and 1982, before the PGA Tour moved it on to pastures new.

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Former apprentice to Pete Dye and PGA Tour in-house architect, Bobby Weed, designed Spanish Oaks. Weed’s highly acclaimed, sensitive design was considered to be the most environmentally friendly in Texas.

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The 18-hole layout at Boot Ranch Golf Club is the focal point of a residential development located to the north of Fredericksburg. Opened in 2005, the course brings Palo Alto Creek into play at several holes.

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The fairways of the Tom Fazio-designed course at Escondido Golf and Lake Club lie on either side of Pecan Creek. The front nine holes are laid out on open ground to the north of the creek with the shorter back nine routed in a clockwise fashion on the other side.

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The sporting activities at the Clubs of Cordillera Ranch are many, but it’s the Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course that takes pride of place within a 8,700-acre residential site in Texas Hill Country.

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Founded in 1899, Austin Country Club moved to its current Davenport Ranch location in 1984 when Pete and Alice Dye laid out the golf course on a site where the opening seven fairways lie close to Lake Austin...

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Twenty years after businessman Marvin Leonard constructed the course at Colonial, he commissioned Robert Trent Jones Snr to build another 18 holes at Shady Oaks Country Club, disregarding the advice of his friend and advisor Ben Hogan who thought the site was too hilly.

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Opening in 2005, the Robert Trent Jones Junior-designed course at Miramont Country Club is quite a strategic test. Water hazards feature at thirteen of the holes, but thankfully, forced carries have been kept to a minimum.

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Former Ryder Cup course at Champions Golf Club, Cypress Creek, is a storied layout. The water in front of the 12th green is known as Bob Hope’s Lake, as he was the first person to lose a ball in it!

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The Tom Fazio designed signature course at Briggs Ranch Golf Club is the centrepiece of an exclusive residential estate close to downtown San Antonio.

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At the end of the 1990s, owner Jodi Lutz enlisted Jay Morrish and his son Carter to transform the old 9-hole Dogwood Trails layout into Pine Dunes Golf Club, one of the best daily fee 18-hole golf courses in Texas.

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Black Jack’s Crossing lies between the Big Bend National Park and the Rio Grande and it’s a Lanny Wadkins design which is set out within the massive 27,000-acre Lajitas Golf Resort.

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The Summit Rock layout at the Horseshoe Bay Resort is the only private layout at an impressive 72-hole facility. It’s a Jack Nicklaus Signature course which was opened by the Golden Bear in 2012.

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Six years after William Diddel constructed it, the course at Northwood Club hosted the US Open in 1952. In more recent times, Tripp Davis renovated the layout, relocating the par three 16th during the process to make way for a new practice facility.

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The Oak Hills Country Club course in San Antonio hosted the Texas Open 19 times between 1961 and 1994. Its tight, tree-lined fairways were fashioned by A.W. Tillinghast in 1922...

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One of four 18-hole courses at the Barton Creek Resort, the Fazio Canyons layout is the second Tom Fazio design on the property, which opened for play in 1999.

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When Tom Doak constructed the Rawls course at Texas Tech in 2003, he shifted more earth on a dead flat site than had been moved in his previous ten projects combined.

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The Fazio golf course opened at The Club at Carlton Woods in 2006, five years after Jack Nicklaus’s layout debuted at the same location. With water in play at eight holes, it’s tougher than the Golden Bear’s design.

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Established in 2001, the Vaquero Club is an exclusive private course laid out within a large gated estate to the north west of Dallas where membership is by invitation only.

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Memorial Park is one of five municipal golf courses operated by Houston Parks & Recreation Department. Designed by John Bredemus in 1936, the course hosted the Shell Houston Open from 1951 to 1963.

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The Club at Carlton Woods features two long, demanding 18-hole tracks that each operate from their own clubhouses. The Nicklaus is the more established of the two golf courses, opening in 2001.

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The Columbian Country Club was formed in 1881, moving to Carrollton in 1952 when Ralph Plummer designed a new course. The club folded in 2008, becoming the Honors Golf Club Dallas and then Maridoe Golf Club before Steve Smyers completed a remodel in 2017.

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When Houston Country Club moved to its present Tanglewood address in the late 1950s, Robert Trent Jones Snr was engaged to lay out a classical course that has been upgraded in recent times by Coore & Crenshaw.

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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.

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One of four 18-hole designs at the Barton Creek resort, the Fazio Foothills layout was constructed on an undulating site that enjoys significant elevation changes during a round.

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The Clubs at Houston Oaks is located in Hockley on 900 acres of land formerly owned by the Tenneco Oil & Gas Company, where it operated as the firm’s headquarters and family retreat facility in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Many of the fairways on the TPC Craig Ranch course are routed around Rowlett Creek, which wanders through a long, narrow plot of land. Designed by Tom Weiskopf, this private facility first opened for golfing action in 2004.

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The Oaks course at TPC San Antonio is the Greg Norman-designed sibling of the shorter Canyons course, a Pete Dye offering that also opened in 2010.

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The layout at Royal Oaks Country Club in Dallas was carved from a densely wooded landscape in 1969 by Texan PGA Professional, Billy Martindale. Today, the golf course is just one of several sporting amenities at an impressive recreational facility.

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Lakewood Country Club was originally fashioned by Tom Bendelow in 1912 and so it remained until Texan Ralph Plummer redesigned the course in 1948. Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore have since twice revitalized the layout.

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The golf course at River Oaks Country Club sits on rather flat ground next to the winding waters of Buffalo Bayou. It’s an old Donald Ross design from 1924 that was revamped by Rees Jones in the 1990s and renovated by Fazio Design in 2015.

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Home to the Byron Nelson Championship on the PGA Tour, the TPC Four Seasons Las Colinas course was originally designed by Jay Morrish in 1982, with a helping hand from Byron Nelson and Ben Crenshaw.

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The University of Texas Golf Club boasts a 7,412 yard, par 71 championship course, created by Bechtol Russell Golf Design in 2003. Remarkably, there’s a choice of ten tee positions on every hole to suit golfers of all abilities.

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George Bush, 41st President of the United States, officially opened the course at Shadow Hawk Golf Club in 1999. A Rees Jones design, with fairways routed around Pecan trees and several lakes, it sits on a 240-acre property in Richmond.

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Established back in 1919, when putting surfaces were originally constructed with sand, the tree-lined course at Amarillo Country Club was totally renovated in 2012 by D.A. Weibring and architect Steve Wolfard.

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Formed in 1951, Lakeside Country Club had a Ralph Plummer-designed 18-hole layout operating within its 209-acre site by the end of the following year. In 1990, Ron Prichard lengthened the course to 7,254 yards from the tips.

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Part of a massive residential development that features 45 golf holes, the Dye course at Stonebridge Ranch Country Club is an interesting and challenging Pete and Alice Dye design that first opened for play in 1988.

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​Associated with nearby Texas A&M University, the course at the Traditions Club is a Nicklaus father and son co-design where more than half the holes have creeks crossing the fairway in front of the green.​

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The Member course at the Golf Club of Houston is a formidable Peter Jacobsen and Jim Hardy co-design which changed ownership in 2003, the same year the club hosted the first of three Shell Houston Opens.

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

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As it was the Ralph Plummer-designed course where Jack Nicklaus won his first PGA Championship in 1963, it was only fitting that Dallas Athletic Club should call the Golden Bear back to redesign the Blue layout in the mid-1980s.

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One of three Robert Trent Jones Senior layouts built over a fifteen year period at the Horseshoe Bay Resort, the Ram Rock course was the second course to make an appearance at this venue, in 1981.

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With low density house situated in and around the course, the fairways of the "Signature" Jack Nicklaus-designed layout at Cimarron Hills Golf & Country Club are set around the south fork of the San Gabriel River.

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With tight fairways and water in play at more than half the holes, the Deerwood Club golf course at Kingwood is a Joe Finger creation that dates back to 1983.

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Laid out on the shores of Lake Lewisville, the course at the Old American Golf Club is a collaborative offering from the design team of Tripp Davis and Justin Leonard.

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Located 46 miles north of Houston, the Steve Elkington-designed course at Woodforest Golf Club is carved through majestic pines and towering oaks, with the waters of Fish Creek also wandering across the layout.

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The Hills course at The Hills Country Club is one of two 18-hole Nicklaus courses to be found at the 72-hole Lakeway facility. The Golden Bear is credited with the solo design of the Hills layout whilst the newer Flintrock Falls was a co-design with his son Jack Nicklaus II.

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George Fazio designed the Jackrabbit course at Champions Golf Club and it made its golfing debut in 1964, five years after Ralph Plummer’s Cypress Creek course opened at the same venue.

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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.

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

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A number of factors combine to make Crown Colony Country Club a pretty tough golf course to play.

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Robert von Hagge and Bruce Devlin routed the 18 holes at Walden Golf Club on Lake Conroe around a real estate development in 1976. The 582-yard 11th - the third of three consecutive par fives - is the star of the show, doglegging out of woods to a lakeside green.

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Golf Club of Houston (formerly Redstone) was formed in 2003 with a private 18-hole course. The Houston Open was held on the Member layout for three years before switching to the newer Rees Jones Tournament course.

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Located on the site of the former Andrau Airpark in Houston, the 18-hole layout at Royal Oaks Country Club is a Fred Couples Signature course which forms the centrepiece of an upmarket residential development.

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The shorter and less difficult of two 18-hole layouts at TPC San Antonio, the Canyons course is a Pete Dye design which has hosted the San Antonio Championship on the Champions Tour since 2011.

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Established in 1896, Dallas Country Club engaged Tom Bendelow to lay out the original course for the membership in 1910. Much has changed since then, including a late 1990s upgrade by Jay Morrish.

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Laid out on a flat tract of land near Aransas Bay, the course at Rockport Country Club is Bill Coore's first solo design from 1984, long before he teamed up with Ben Crenshaw to form their formidable design partnership.

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The oldest public 18-hole layout in Texas, Brackenridge Park Golf Course in San Antonio has hosted twenty-one editions of the Texas Open from 1922 to 1959. None other than A. W. Tillinghast designed “Old Brack” in 1916.

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Laid out in 2005 by Jeff Blume within a 182-acre property close to Lake Conroe, the Grand Pines course at Bentwater Yacht & Country Club was the last of the three private layouts to debut at an outstanding 54-hole golf facility.

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The 18-hole layout at Texas Rangers Golf Club – the world’s first Major League Baseball-branded golf course – opened for play at the start of 2019, following a multi-million dollar renovation conducted by architect John Colligan, who’s an Arlington local.

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The course at Gentle Creek Country Club is the sporting focus at an upmarket residential development in Prosper. It’s routed across 235 acres of forested terrain, with fairways set around a large lake.

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Ralph Plummer designed the layout at Willow Brook Country Club in the 1950s and Tripp Davis recently carried out a renovation of the course, working to a masterplan he had developed for the club in 2015.

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Situated ten miles southwest of downtown Fort Worth, Mira Vista Country Club was formed in the mid-1980s, when Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish routed an 18-hole layout around a 625-acre residential development.

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Designed by Keith Foster, the front nine at The Quarry in San Antonio is styled as a links golf course with deep bunkers and sloping greens whilst the back nine is routed around an old limestone quarry.

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Located half an hour’s drive north of Houston, the Island course at the Clubs of Kingwood is a mid-1970s Joe Finger design with tight, tree-lined fairways and a par five finishing hole regarded as one of the toughest in Texas.

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Originally laid out by Des Muirhead in 1972, the course at Bent Tree Country Club was renovated thirty years later by Keith Foster. This challenging layout has hosted events on both the LPGA and Champions Tours.

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Branded “The World’s Only NFL Themed Golf Club,” the course at The Cowboys Golf Club offers a surprisingly engaging test for all golfers, whether or not they’re fans of the Gridiron club.

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Situated four miles south west of Dallas, architect John Colligan gave Stevens Park Golf Course a makeover in 2011, when all the tees, fairways, bunkers and greens were renovated and 900 new trees were planted.

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Tom Kite (assisted by Roy Bechtol and Randy Russell) laid out the original 18 holes at The Club at Comanche Trace in 2000 (now called The Hills and The Valley nines) before Jay Morrish added a further 9-hole circuit (called The Creeks) in 2008.

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The Lakes at Castle Hills was formed as The Golf Club at Castle Hills in 1999 before a five-month course renovation (and a name change) took place in 2011, when new bunkers and greens were also installed.

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Template holes from eleven famous Scottish links courses were used by Tripp Davis to create the course at The Tribute Golf Club. Golfers even have to drive over a shed to the right of the tee at the Road Hole 17th.

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Configured as three 6-hole circuits to allow for short round options, the 18-hole layout at High Meadow Ranch Golf Club is a Tim Nugent and David Ogrin co-design that’s set within a forested property in the southwest of Montgomery County.

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The Apple Rock course was the last of three Robert Trent Jones Senior designs to appear at the Horseshoe Bay Resort when it debuted in 1986, fifteen years after the old master’s first 18-layout opened for play here.

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Established in 1947, Ridgewood Country Club lies next to Lake Waco. The course has been upgraded a number of times in recent years, most recently when all the bunkers were renovated in 2013.

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The original course at Stonebriar Country Club is a Joe Finger and Ken Dye production that debuted in 1988 but this layout has since been eclipsed by an exciting new millennium offering from Tom Fazio.

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Operated by the City of Euless, the Texas Star golf course is one of the best daily rate venues in the Dallas/Forth Worth area with significant elevation changes occurring on many of the tree-lined holes.

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Designed by Keith Foster, the Tradition at Cypresswood Golf Club is the longer and tougher of the two 18-hole courses at a fabulous 36-hole public golf facility located within the wooded landscape of north Houston.

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The Resort course at the 36-hole La Cantera Golf Club hosted fifteen editions of the Texas Open, starting the year that the Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish layout first opened for play in 1995.

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Dallas Athletic Club boasts two Jack Nicklaus Signature courses, the Blue and the Gold. The Gold doesn’t have the same championship pedigree as the Blue but it’s still a tough track, laid out around eight lakes.

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Formed in 1927, Midland Country Club moved to its present location in 1951, when Ralph Plummer designed a new course. The layout closed for a major renovation during 2016 so it may move up the future Texas rankings.

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The private Rock Creek Resort course is a Nicklaus Design layout set within a 1,300-acre residential development on Lake Texoma, situated an hour’s drive north of Dallas. Fairways are carpeted in Bermuda with bent grass used for the greens.

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The Player course was the last of the three layouts to debut at the The Woodlands Country Club's 63-hole golf complex in 2002. It’s by far the most difficult track here, carrying a slope rating of 151 from the back tees.