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FEATURE STORY
Small-town Texas, BIG-time golf
By Steve Habel, ContributingWriter
Great golf is where you find it, but discovering wonderful courses in the lesser-known places is much easier than you might expect. Smaller cities and towns in the state understand that golf courses, especially ones that offer excellent routing and conditions in locales off the beaten path, can be real economic engines and a true source of pride for their communities. It seems like the Lone Star State has a plethora of such courses, in virtually every part of the massive state. From San Angelo to Texas City, from Lajitas to Gladewater, from Brownwood to Blanco, there are bigtime golf memories waiting in small towns. Here are a handful of destinations that you should consider for golf away from the big cities. And we aren’t done yet…
the two offerings in New Braunfels, which sits about a half-hour north of San Antonio on the banks of the cool blue rapids of the Comal River. New Braunfels was settled by Germans and the influences run deep in the town, which hosts the famous Wurstfest each November.The town is also the home of the original Schlitterbahn Water Park, part of which can be seen from just about anywhere in the area. The golf courses here – Landa Park Golf Course at Comal Springs downtown and The Bandit Golf Club about 15 minutes east– are very different but equally fun. Landa Park Golf Course, set in the famous park, was given a new lease on life by a complete renovation in 2013 by the noted Houston-based golf New Braunfels architecture firm of A template for Finger, Dye, Spann. great courses and The designers golf experiences in were handed a $7 a smaller town are Landa Park GC Hole # 4, New Braunfels million budget to TheTexasGolfInsider.com
