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    Champions Golf Club: Cypress Creek

    Houston, TX Private

    Overview

    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, the 51st ranked course among America's 100 Greatest, kept the features and shot demands updated and sharp without straying from Cypress Creek's noble heritage.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7410
    Slope 134
    Facility Type Private
    Designer Ralph M. Plummer, ASGCA

    Awards

    Best Courses in Every State

    Best in State: Top 10 in state 1991-1993 & 2005-2007, Top 5 in state 1977-1989, 1995-2003 & 2009-2011, ranked 9th in state 2013 and 2021-'22.
    2023-'24 ranking: 28th.
    Previous ranking: 9th.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    3.9

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    6.8229
    Character
    6.9951
    Challenge
    7.1352
    Layout Variety
    6.6028
    Fun
    6.7275
    Aesthetics
    6.6586
    Conditioning
    7.1644

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