One of the many signs of golf addiction is the predilection for taking courses in the making, from the date of the first course to opening day.
If you betray that symptom, face it, you are a junkie and we have a bulletin for you. At issue is Wild Spring Dunes, a new headliner in destination golf.
Considering you have, let’s call it a passion, not a compulsion, for the game, you probably know the basics. But here’s a refresher, just in case. Wild Spring Dunes is the latest project from Sand Valley co-developer Michael Keizer, taking shape in the sandy wilderness of East Texas – roughly equidistant from Dallas and Houston, and 70 miles from Shreveport, La. The site extends over more than 2,400 hectares of dunes, meadows and spring-fed creeks, where Tom Doak has stitched a route through the rumpled terrain.
Eight holes of that course are now completed and preview play begins on November 12.
Call it a first taste, and there is much more to come. A second course, by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, is already being released. The plans also call for a short course, putting course and a state-of-the-art practice facility, all part of an emerging golf resort and community. Private cottages and estate homes are already available. A clubhouse and lodge are also being built. Although golf will be the main draw, the property also offers fishing and hiking, among other outdoor activities.
For Keiser, the son of Bandon Dunes founder Mike Keiser, the news comes in the midst of a busy stretch of two other major golf developments: Rodeo Dunes, just outside Denver, which staged 11-hole preview play this summer, and Old Shores in the Florida panhandle, currently in the works.
For golf junkies, the progression at Wild Springs Dunes is something different to watch – and play. More information is available here.
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