| 2025-2026 ranking
The best golf courses in Texas
Texas golf underperforms in terms of greatness against the other best golf states. Though The Covey at Big Easy Ranch debuted inside our America’s 100 Greatest ranking this year, Texas still has only six venues inside our top 200 in the country—tracking severely behind its competitors, like California, New York, Florida, North and South Carolina, etc. The East course at PGA Frisco, Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner’s new addition and host of the 2027 PGA Championship, also just missed making our top 100 by a few hundredths of a decimal point.
Much like South Carolina, new golf course construction is booming in Texas—so expect the Lone Star State golf scene to improve dramatically in coming years. There’s certainly a market for great golf to go along with the very good golf Texas already has.
Below you'll find our 2025-'26 ranking of the Best Golf Courses in Texas. If you're interested in the best public options, check out our collection of the best courses you can play in Texas.
Scroll on for the complete list of the best courses in Texas. Be sure to click through to each individual course page for bonus photography and reviews from our course panelists. We also encourage you to leave your own ratings … so you can make your case for (or against) any course that you've played.



Matthew Stockman

Matthew Stockman

Matthew Stockman




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Richard L. Muniz

Richard L. Muniz

Richard L. Muniz

Richard L. Muniz

Jill Hunter

Jill Hunter

Jill Hunter

Richard L. Muniz


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TPC San Antonio’s Oaks course has hosted the Valero Texas Open since 2010. Playing through the dry outlands north of the city, the Greg Norman design is one of the most strategically compelling courses on tour with aggressive bunkering, some wonderful short par 4s and several uniquely demanding par 5s, including the 18th, one of the most underrated and frustrating closing holes the professionals play.

Will Barkley

Will Barkley

Miguel Lecuona

The 36-hole Champions Golf Club is one of the most appropriately named clubs in America. It was founded by Texans Jackie Burke, Jr. (who turned 100 in 2023) and Jimmy Demaret, and the two hold five major championships between them, including four Masters green jackets. A procession of the game's best professionals have tested their games at the vaunted Cypress Creek course (the club's second course, Jackrabbit, actually scored higher in our Best in State rankings), which has played host to the 1969 U.S. Open, a Ryder Cup, several PGA Tour tournaments including the TOUR Championship, and the 2020 U.S. Women's Open. When Cypress Creek opened in 1957, it was regarded as one of the finest new courses of the post-World War II era, ranked among the 100 Greaters courses from 1966 to 1988. It's a tight, treelined shotmaker's course with treelined fairways and big, well-protected greens--the fourth, bending around a crook of Cypress Creek, was long considered one of the toughest par 3s in the country. A 2018 renovation by Texan Chet Williams, designer of Whispering Pines, kept the features and shot demands updated and sharp without straying fromm Cypress Creek's noble heritage.




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Larry Field

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Located in the dry Hill Country south of Austin, Driftwood is another collaboration between the team of Tom Fazio and Discovery Land Company. Though located within an communitiy of large properties and luxury homes, the design feels spacious and part of the rugged, windswept prairies of southeast Texas. The fairways and greens are large and accomodating, with holes punctuated by large specimen oaks.

Brent Dolittle

Brent Dolittle

Brent Dolittle

Brent Dolittle

Brent Dolittle

Brent Dolittle

Jason Risner

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Ben Jared




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Hanse's 18th hole has a number of strategic elements to navigate.

A massive bunker complex at the 15th hole guards the green.

The East course's 13th hole looks like it always sat naturally within these live oaks and mesquite trees.

The greensite at the 10th hole is carved into the property's natural features.

The rugged eight green complex at the East.


LC Lambrecht

LC Lambrecht

LC Lambrecht

LC Lambrecht

LC Lambrecht

Laurence Lambrecht

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Darren Carroll for Golf Digest

J.D. Cuban

J.D. Cuban

J.D. Cuban

J.D. Cuban

J.D. Cuban

J.D. Cuban

J.D. Cuban
Many who’ve played Bluejack National have commented on its resemblance to Augusta National, particularly at the par-3 12th, which plays over water to a shallow diagonal green backed by a pair of bunkers. While some suspect this is Tiger’s homage to the 12th at Augusta National, where he has won five Masters, it could be based on the 12th at Muirfield Village, where Tiger has won eight times. Nonetheless, Bluejack is most likely an ode to Augusta. At the course opening, Tiger told reporters, “When I visited the site for the first time, I was blown away. It’s definitely not the kind of site that comes to mind when you think of Houston. The terrain features a number of elevation changes and lots of tall, mature trees, more like something you would find in Georgia.”

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

Brian Oar

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