Mount Enterprise, Texas – such as legendary architect Tom Doak earlier this summer, one of his newest projects on a scorching day in remote East -Texas, he could only be enthusiastic by the landscape that had been postponed for him.
“It is different from any real estate that I have worked on for the past 10 years,” says Doak.
That country is 2,400 rolling hectares of a former Texas hunting lease that will soon be Wild Spring Dunes, the first course of the Lone Star State by Dream Golf, the powerhouse developers behind Bandon Dunes and Sand Valley Resort.
The facility, which is planned for a soft opening of eight holes later this fall and a full 18 in the spring of 2026, will eventually house 36 holes. A second layout from Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw has already been eliminated with the construction that is expected to start later this year or early afterwards.
The site, about two and a half hours southeast of Dallas, will also offer resort accommodation behind the 18th Green of the Doak course; private huts and houses; A short course; And a long view of the wooded area.
“It will feel like PineHurst with a few height changes,” said general manager Mike Abbott, who previously posted in the Tiger Woods-designed Bluejack National Buiten Houston and former old PGA tour site TPC-Las Colinas outside Dallas.
“With all due respect, I don’t think Texas has a really great golf resort [yet]”Said Abbott.” And I have been to most of them. This will be really special. “
After making three trips to the site in the past four months, Doak agreed.
“The changes in topography and transitions are what makes me really enthusiastic here,” said Doak. “I certainly get some Pinehurst, even Pine Valley, Vibes.”
The construction of the Doak course, which will be a par-72 that extends to almost 7,120 meters from the rear T-pieces, is underway this year. The development of private homes, together with Resort accommodation and clubhouse, starts next year.
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The Doak course starts with a soft dogleg par-4, at the top what the locals Mt. Baldy mentions. There are a beautiful view of the valley below with wearing brush and dry channels, with a spring that seeps from the ground that inspired the name of the race.
Eleven bridges connect the property to each other. Abbott said that the course will only run (with offered Caddies) part of the year and the other half will run.
Dream Golf has been very successful with golfers in large numbers to external destinations such as Coastal Oregon (Bandon Dunes) and Central Wisconsin (Sand Valley); Rodeo Dunes, a dream growing facility near Denver, will open later this year. The Piney Woods from East Texas, where temperatures are regularly in the 90-100 degrees in the summer, the same as the pattern of the Will-Willem pattern.
The country for Wild Spring Dunes was discovered by Dallas businessman Brett Messerall, who first contacted Doak. Messerall later brought Dream Golf Visionary and Bandon Dunes founder Mike Keizer and his son, Michael, introduced the project for organizational and financial support.
Doak had already worked with the Keizers on several projects in Bandon Dunes and also in Sand Valley, so from the first day on the Texas site there was fame and a feeling of direction for both the designer and the developer.
Although there is no private property for sale at Bandon Dunes and very little at Sand Valley, Wild Spring Dunes will break from that mold. Dream Golf is already selling ‘Founders’ lots that are combined with the kind of hospitality on the Topplank for which discovery land properties have become known.
“The service will be from the charts,” said Abbott.
Safe gamble will be the whole place.
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