 Lake Windcrest Golf Club
Texas Outside Rating: 8.8
18 Holes - Golf - Semi Private
Magnolia
281 259-2279
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Date Played: May 10, 2009
Front Nine Rating: 8.5 Stars
Back Nine Rating: 9.0 Stars
Approximate Weekend Price Range: $44.00 to
$66.00
Brief Description:
Canongate At Lake Windcrest is part of the Canongate family of courses which include: Panther Trails and The Oaks in The Woodlands and Magnolia Creek in Magnolia. Lake Windcrest is a semi private course that is available for public play at limited times during the week. If you stay at the Woodlands Resort you can also reserve a tee time. This is an excellent course - lush conditions, forgiving fairways, well maintained and manicured, and fun to play. There are a number of huge beautiful homes lining the fairways. Most of the fairways are very forgiving and even if you miss, the rough was cut thin and playable when we played. You have to really work at loosing a ball here. The fairways do have a lot of berms, mounding, and contouring resulting in a lot of uneven lies. The TIF Eagle greens are fast and consistent and have both slope and undulation. The greens, uneven lies, and the treacherous steep faced bunkers are what make this course challenging. The front nine is more of a links style course and seems much more open than the back. You'll find some fun and challenging holes on this nine, some of which require good club selection as well as excellent course management to score well. For example, for the second shot on #2 (520 yard par 5, #3 handicap) do you try to hit it long and straight to clear the waste area and avoid the traps in front and in back of the green or should you take the safer layup shot to a narrow "S" fairway leading to the green - either way requires target golf.The terrain and layout of the back have more of a country feeling and this nine is much more interesting. You'll find dog legs, a large lake lining a narrow fairway to contend with, plenty of steep faced fairway and green-side bunkers, and some elevation changes. Fun nine and a great 18 that is worth playing! We played Lake Windcrest as part of a very fun 4 day golfing vacation - to learn more about where we played and stayed, read our Golfing Southeast Texas Vacation.
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Other Good Information:
Designer/Architect: Thomas Walker
Beware of water on 5 holes
and the 63 sand traps.
Service and amenities are very good. The GPS is fantastic.
Condition of the greens is 9.0 and the green difficulty is 9.0 out of 10.
Type of Greens: TIF Eagle
The 19th hole is good and the clubhouse food is good.
The pro shop is good
Walkable: Yes
GPS: Yes
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The Texas Outside 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; water (which is crystal clear) on most of the holes; immaculate greens (but they are undulating and tough); lots of variety and character (each hole is completely different and includes blind shots, elevation changes, doglegs, and significant challenges); perfectly manicured traps with the whitest and prettiest sand you’ve ever seen; a nice club house with great food and a 19th hole; 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 score high; a 1 would be flat, bushes or cactus instead of trees, and some grass but mostly weeds
- 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 or dodging other people’s balls, but not much fun; and you can 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 municipal course, with six players on each hole was only $10; it would still get a value rating of 1.
- Condition – this one’s pretty easy – what condition are the fairways. A 10 commands very lush perfectly manicured fairways, compared to a 1, which has fire ants, weeds, and more dirt than grass!
- Condition of Greens 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 score for the golf course. In other words, we like courses that are pretty, fun, very challenging with a lot of variety, and fairways and greens in excellent condition – all for $40. We also tend to play the courses that are affordable for the masses, which means in the $30 to $80 range. We rate hard and we haven’t found a 10 in Texas yet – don’t worry we haven’t given up and we’re still looking.
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