There are some fantastic Golf Resorts in the state of Texas, including Barton Creek, Horseshoe Bay and the brand-new courses at Fields Ranch–but there are a whole lot of terrific daily fee public courses in TX as well.
You always want to look for a good deal, but its key to find one at a solid track so you don’t end up wasting a precious day on the links. For a head start on that, we’ve compiled a list of our 25 highest rated TX public daily fee courses—with details including a link to the course website, course descriptions, paractice facility detail, and google maps for location and directions.
Texas native Jeff Brauer designed 4 of our Top-25, including The Bridges (#5–with Fred Couples), The Wilderness (#6), Tempest Golf Club (#15) and Tangle Ridge (#22).
Keith Foster, renowned for his work restoring and renovating classic courses such as Colonial and Southern Hills, contributed a pair of original designs on our Top-25 (#9 Texas Star and #13 The Quarry).
Tom Doak, who laid out Pacific Dunes in Oregon (a perennial Golf Digest Top 100 course) designed The Rawls Course at Texas Tech (#2) as well as the renovations at Memorial Park (#4) where the Houston Open will be played at the end of March.
Our #1 Texas Public course, The Golf Club of Houston, is a Rees Jones masterpiece designed in collaboration with PGA Tour player David Toms, while Robert Trent Jones II contributed a terrific municipal layout in Laredo (The Max–#23).
You can also click Texas Public Courses for a comprehensive list of TX courses you can play. To view courses by location, use the GolfDay Search Engine and enter the city where you plan to be.
- The Golf Club of Houston/Humble
Escalante Golf
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Rees Jones/David Toms/Greg Muirhead
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 76.4 Rating/148 Slope (Tournament)
- Practice Facilities: Double Sided Grass Driving Range with Targets, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunkers
- Course Description
- GolfDay Rating: 99.2
- Location
- The Rawls Course/Lubbock
Texas Tech University/Troon Golf
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Tom Doak/Jim Urbina
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 74.2 Rating/138 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range with Targets, Wedge Range, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunkers (3).
- Course Description
- Photos
- GolfDay Rating: 97.8
- Location
- White Bluff Golf Club/Whitney
Arcis Golf Management
- Holes: 36 (2-Eighteen Hole Courses)
- Course Architects: Bruce Lietzke
- USGA Course/Slope Rating:
New: 75.5 Rating/147 Slope
Old: 77.0 Rating/141 Slope - Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range with Target Greens, Putting and Chipping Greens.
- Course Descriptions
- Photos-New Course
- Photos-Old Course
- GolfDay Rating: 97.0
- Location
- The Bridges Golf Club/Gunter
City of Scottsdale/PGA Tour Properties
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Jeffrey Brauer/Fred Couples
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 77.5 Rating/141 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Driving Range, Putting and Chipping Greens.
- Course Description
- Photos
- GolfDay Rating: 94.6
- Location
- Memorial Park Golf Course/Houston
City of Houston
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: John Bredemus/Joe Finger/Ken Dye/Baxter Spann/Tom Doak
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 74.2 Rating/128 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Two Level Lighted Driving Range, Putting and Chipping Greens.
- Course Description
- GolfDay Rating: 94.6
- Location
- The Wilderness/Lake Jackson
City of Lake Jackson/KemperSports
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Jeffrey Brauer
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 73.9 Rating/134 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range with Targets and Fairway Bunker, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunker.
- Course Description
- GolfDay Rating: 94.5
- Location
- Buffalo Creek Golf Club/Heath
KemperSports
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Tom Weiskopf/Jay Morrish
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 74.9 Rating/132 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range with Targets, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunker.
- Course Description
- GolfDay Rating: 94.0
- Location
- The Golf Clubs at the Tribute/The Colony
- Holes: 36 (2-Eighteen Hole Courses)
- Course Architects: Tripp Davis/Justin Leonard
- USGA Course/Slope Rating:
Old American: 75.2 Rating/145
The Tribute: 73.9 Rating/130 - Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunker.
- Course Descriptions
- GolfDay Rating: 93.9
- Location
- Texas Star Golf Course/Euless
City of Euless
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Keith Foster/Robert McNeil
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 74.6 Rating/139 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Course Description Grass Driving Range with Targets, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunker.
- Course Description
- GolfDay Rating: 93.8
- Location
- Tierra Verde Golf Club/Arlington
City of Arlington
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Gary Panks
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 73.8 Rating/135 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range with Targets, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunker.
- Course Description/Photos
- GolfDay Rating: 93.5
- Location
- The Golf Club at Texas A&M/College Station
Texas A&M University/Sterling Golf
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Ralph Plummer/Bruce Littell/Jeffrey Blume
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 73.8 Rating/130 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Driving Range (Grass and Mats), Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunker.
- Course Description
- Photos
- GolfDay Rating: 93.5
- Location
- Southern Oaks Golf & Tennis Club/Burleson
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Mark Brooks/Britt Logan
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 75.8 Rating/136 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Course Description Expansive Lighted Grass Driving Range with Target Greens, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunkers.
- GolfDay Rating: 93.4
- Location
- The Quarry Golf Club/San Antonio
- Holes: 18
- Course Architect: Keith Foster
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 72.9 Rating/131 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunker.
- Course Description
- GolfDay Rating: 93.3
- Location
- Moody Gardens Golf Course/Galveston
City of Galveston
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Peter Jacobsen/Jim Hardy
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 73.0 Rating/134 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range with Targets, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunker.
- Course Description
- Photos
- GolfDay Rating: 93.1
- Location
- Tempest Golf Club/Gladewater
- Holes: 18
- Course Architect: Jeffrey Brauer
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 75.2 Rating/139 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range with Targets, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunker.
- Course Description
- Photos
- GolfDay Rating: 93.1
- Location
- Heritage Ranch Golf & Country Club/Fairview
- Holes: 18
- Course Architect: Arthur Hills
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 73.6 Rating/133 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range with Targets and Fairway Bunker, Putting and Chipping Greens.
- Course Description
- GolfDay Rating: 93.0
- Location
- Live Oak Golf Club/Abilene
- Holes: 18
- Course Architect: Charles Coody
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 73.7 Rating/134 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Expansive Grass Driving Range, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunkers (2).
- Course Description/Photos
- GolfDay Rating: 93.0
- Location
- Pecan Hollow Golf Course/Plano
City of Plano
- Holes: 23 (Eighteen Hole Regulation Course and Five Hole Par 3)
- Course Architects: Billy Martindale/Don January/Jeffrey Brauer/Jim Colbert/D. A. Weibring/Steve Wolfard
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 75.4 Rating/141 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Lighted Grass Driving Range, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunkers (3).
- Course Description
- GolfDay Rating: 93.0
- Location
- Golf Club at Star Ranch/Hutto
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Roy Bechtol/Randy Russell
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 73.4 Rating/130 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Driving Range, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunker.
- Course Description
- Photos
- GolfDay Rating: 92.6
- Location
- Tour 18-Houston/Humble
CBIGG Management
- Holes: 18
- Course Architect: Dave Edsall
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 73.5 Rating/135 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Driving Range with Targets and Toptracer Technology, Putting and Chipping Greens.
- Course Description
- Photos
- GolfDay Rating: 92.5
- Location
- Cedar Creek Golf Course/San Antonio
City of San Antonio/Alamo City Golf Trail
- Holes: 18
- Course Architects: Joe Finger/Ken Dye/Baxter Spann/Jeffrey Blume/Billy Ray Brown
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 74.5 Rating/136 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range with Targets, Putting and Chipping Green.
- Photos
- GolfDay Rating: 92.2
- Location
- Tangle Ridge Golf Club/Grand Prairie
City of Grand Prairie
- Holes: 18
- Course Architect: Jeffrey Brauer
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 73.6 Rating/136 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range with Targets, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunker.
- Photos
- GolfDay Rating: 92.0
- Location
- The Max/Laredo
City of Laredo
- Holes: 18
- Course Architect: Robert Trent Jones, Jr.
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 74.6 Rating/ 134 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range, Putting and Chipping Greens.
- Course Description
- GolfDay Rating: 91.8
- Location
- Cypresswood Golf Club/Spring
Foresight Golf
- Holes: 36 (2-Eighteen Hole Courses)
- Course Architects: Rick Forester/Keith Foster/Kevin Hargrave
- USGA Course/Slope Rating:
Tradition: 74.2 Rating/140 Slope
Cypress: 74.1 Rating/129 Slope - Practice Facilities: Grass Driving Range with Targets, Putting and Chipping Greens with Bunkers (Separate Putting and Chipping Greens with grasses to match each course).
- Course Descriptions
- GolfDay Rating: 91.4
- Location
- Vaaler Creek at Rockin Ranch/Blanco
- Holes: 18
- Course Architect: Michael Lowry
- USGA Course/Slope Rating: 74.1 Rating/139 Slope
- Practice Facilities: Expansive Grass Driving Range with Target Greens, Putting and Chipping Greens.
- Course Description
- GolfDay Rating: 91.4
- Location
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