Located just north of downtown San Antonio off the Highway 1604 loop is the La Cantera Resort, home to The Resort Course, designed by Jay Morrish and Tom Weiskopf. It is a former host of the PGA Tour's Texas Open, featuring incredible elevation changes and sweeping views of San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country. La Cantera Resort features…
La Cantera in San Antonio scored the top spot in GolfAdvisor's top-rated golf courses of the week. View the top 10 U.S. courses in the overall and conditions categories.
In 2011, the Arnold Palmer Course at Westin La Cantera Resort in San Antonio celebrated its 10th anniversary, and it's been gaining in popularity in recent years. So much so, in fact, that play is almost even between Palmer and its more-famous sister Resort Course. The star of the Palmer is the elevation changes and the views. Nowhere in San Antonio are there more panoramic shots.
Five years since the Valero Texas Open switched venues, TPC San Antonio is getting its groove as the host course, while La Cantera is upping the ante for guests of the JW Marriott resort.
The Top 25 courses in Texas according to your ratings and reviews feature golf resorts throughout the state as well as top semi-private and daily-fee plays from Dallas to Austin.
If you're in the Alamo City on business and you want to play golf -- whether it's part of your agenda or you are just looking to catch a quick round -- plenty of options are at your disposal. From top resorts to convenient daily fee courses, Mike Bailey has five great options for the business traveler in San Antonio.
Millions visit San Antonio annually for a variety of reasons -- to experience the rugged Texas Hill Country and see the native wildflowers, bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush, and to play golf among some beautiful limestone-dotted landscapes complete with prickly pear cactus, sheer cliffs, daring elevation changes and lush green hillsides.
One of the best aspects of San Antonio golf are the views created by being on the edge of the Texas Hill Country. The Westin La Cantera courses, for example, are known for them, and they're pretty good at the TPC San Antonio as well. But those are resort courses. What about the daily fees? There's no shortage of non-resort vistas either, and many of them are at a fraction of the price of resort golf. Here's a rundown of my favorites.
With a storied history hosting many of Texas' great legends such as Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead and Ben Crenshaw, San Antonio has a rich pedigree as a stage for some of the state's top shotmakers. A golf trip to the Alamo City will reveal who the true players are, especially if the Hill Country breeze is prevalent and your group books a tee time on one of these top courses for shotmakers.
A familiar name is back on top of Power Rankings: California's historic Ojai Valley Resort & Spa, earned high marks from Golf Advisor reviewers in early September.
Greg Norman and Sergio Garcia designed TPC San Antonio's AT&T Oaks Course first and foremost for the PGA Tour player. With that said, most golfers cherish the opportunity to play where the pros play, Mike Bailey writes. You might not want to play a course this difficult every day, but that's why the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa also has the more player friendly AT&T Canyons Course, which makes for a nice change of pace.
If you like roller coasters and thrill rides, Six Flags Fiesta Texas is your kind of place. The park has 18 attractions it would classify as thrill rides, including something called "Scream," a harrowing tower that drops its victims more than 20 stories. There's nothing on the golf courses in San Antonio that will make you scream, but appropriately enough, there are plenty of courses that have adventurous holes with plenty of twists and turns. Here's a sampling ...
Waterlefe Golf & River Club was the top-rated course of the week on Golf Advisor. View the rest of the week's top courses in overall and conditions categories.
The newest addition to the golf scene in Texas is a big one: The JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort, home to the TPC San Antonio's AT&T Oaks and AT&T Canyons courses. This is the largest JW Marriott Resort in the world, set on 600 acres and featuring 1,002 rooms, a 28,000-square-foot spa, six-acre water park, seven dining options and four large conference rooms.
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