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Is there anything better than spending 4 hours chasing a golf ball through some of Texas’ prettiest terrain on one of the over 500 Texas Golf Courses? Add to that, spending quality time with your spouse, kids, or best friends; shooting the breeze; sipping a cold one; smoking a stogie; and doing some friendly betting or ribbing! What could be better than that?

Texas has more golf courses than we could ever hope to play – set a goal to play them all and if you miss it, at least you had fun trying. From some challenging par three courses to PGA caliber tour courses, you can easily locate a course within 100 miles of your house that meets both your price range and skill level.

Texas Outside’s golf section is designed to help you quickly find:

  • a Texas golf course to play - by region, city, or name
  • read a review of the course
  • check out the best of the best courses in Texas or featured course of the month
  • find a special or discounted tee time
  • book a tee time

Before you head out to play, read some of the golf tips and buy some new equipment to help improve your score. Within the golf section you'll also find: Stay and Play packages, Stay and Play reviews, golf resorts, golf communities, tips and techniques.

We could also use your help, send us your course reviews, ratings, and pictures to share with Texas Outside golfers.

 

Texas Golf Course Locator

If you're looking for a place to play, Texas Outside provides several approaches to finding the ideal golf course. You can click on any of the regions in the Texas golf map below to find a map that has clickable icons for all of the golf courses in that region. You can also locate a golf course by city, by course name, or by all the courses in a city. And finally, if you are looking to play golf in a major metropolitan area (i.e., Dallas, Austin), you can click on the city locator below to find all the golf courses in and around that city. Each of these methods brings up a scrollable Google golf map that has clickable golf icons for each golf course on the map. When you click on the golf icon you will see the course name, phone number, Texas Outside Rating, link to the rating, number of holes, and a link to online tee times, and more. Texas Outside has listings for over 500 Texas golf courses -- you should be able to find one that you'll enjoy. Before you start the search, read some of the Texas Outside reviews to learn more about the golf course. Have fun. And let us know what you think about Texas Outside and the course.

ex: 90230 or Los Angeles, CA

 

Specials, Coupons, & Tee Time Reservations

Texas Outside is aware of the following sites that offer coupons – let us know about your favorite discount and reservation sites

  • Golf Course Specials and Coupons
    • The 2006 Entertainment Book for your city has 2 for the price of 1 coupon for courses in your area, plus coupons for restaurants,
      entertainment, and much more -- the first time you use the book it has paid for itself -- well worth the price
    • GolfQ.com -- provides coupons and last minute promotions for the DFW Metroplex, Austin, San Antonio, and Houston
    • Click4Golf.com -- daily golf specials at various Texas courses and resorts
    • GolfCoupons.com -- provides some good coupons at a number of Texas courses
  • Online Tee Time Specials -- tee times specials for Dallas, Houston, El Paso, and Austin

 

Cool Golf Gear

 

Texas Outside Reviews, Ratings, and Favorites

Stay & Play Packages and Reviews

  • Stay and Play Packages - find a wide variety of deals on Stay and Play packages at some of the best courses all over Texas
  • Stay and Play Reviews - read a review of some of the places where Texas Outside has stayed and played

 

Texas Golf Resorts and Golf Communities

 

If you are considering a golf resort outside of Texas, here is where you can get some free golf resort brochures.

 

 

Here's how Texas Outside rates the golf courses

    The rating scale ranges from 1 to 10 – a perfect 10 course would be something like this: links along a cliff overlooking the Pacific ocean and bordered by tall trees; lush fairways on rolling hills with lots of natural hazards, and water which is crystal clear; greens you would kill for (but they are undulating and tough); each hole is completely different and includes blind shots, lots of elevation changes, plenty of dog legs, and significant challenges; perfectly manicured traps with the whitest and prettiest sand you’ve ever seen; a nice club house with great food and cold drinks; a GPS; plenty of beverage carts or your own cooler and ice; and it only costs 40 bucks! What this means is that you probably won’t find any 10s in Texas – try Cabo San Lucas, Pebble Beach, or some of the Hawaii courses!




Texas Outside rates courses on the following:

    • Beauty – tall trees, rolling hills, beautiful houses, waterfalls, and similar stuff would

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      score high; a 1 would be flat, bushes instead of trees, and some grass but mostly weeds. The pictures on this page are from courses that score high on the beauty scale.
    • Difficulty – a straight, 300 yard par 4 with no traps or hazards, no out of bounds or water would probably get a 1; if it is a 460 yard par 4 over two ravines, with water along one side, natural hazards on the other, strategically placed traps or that dreaded tree right in the middle of the fairway, we are talking a 10.
    • Variety – what would you give a course where all the holes looked and played exactly the same (“I thought we just played that hole!”); were side-by-side, which is good for finding other people’s balls, but not much fun; and you could see the flag from every tee box? That’s right, it gets a 1.
    • Fun Scale – a 10 is where you walk off the course and say “now that was fun” and you can’t wait to get back, or you immediately turn around and play another 18 holes.
    • Value – a 5 is $50 to $60, a 10 is $20 to $30, and 1 is $200 or so – of course all of this is dependent upon how you liked the course. For example, if a run down, boring flat course, with six players on each hole was only $10; it would still get a value rating of 1. A courses that scores 9s and 10s on all the other categories, but costs $100 would most likely get a 7 to 9 on the value scale.
      • Woodbridge Golf Club
    • Overall Course Condition – this one’s pretty easy – what condition are the fairways and roughs. A 10 commands very lush perfectly manicured fairways, compared to a 1, which has fire ants, weeds, and more dirt than grass!
    • Greens Condition and Difficulty – very hard to read greens with lots of undulation and tough pin placement, rate very high on the difficulty scale. Condition is self-explanatory.

All of the above determines the overall course score for a particular golf course.

Front Nine and Back Nine Rating – at some courses each nine differs in a number of ways and we’ve found courses where the front nine is ugly and boring, but the back nine was great – as such, we have provided an individual rating for each nine holes and also an overall rating for the course

Golf Resources

 

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