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South Padre Island Golf Club - 18 Holes Course
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This southernmost course in Texas, despite its name, is actually situated on the mainland in Port Isabel. Architects Chris Cole and Stephen Caplinger carved an outstanding layout out of the wild native Gulf coast vegetation, with several holes bordering the Laguna Madre. The club has hosted the Texas Senior Open and the South Texas PGA Southern Championship since its opening in 1997.
The design features wide fairways bordered by native yucca, mesquite, and cactus, and the windy conditions often make it challenging to keep it in the fairway. Errant shots will be lost for sure. Others that fail to find the fairway will bury in waste areas and deep rough.
For the most part, the longer holes seem to play more downwind, while the shorter ones play into the wind. The large greens are of championship quality. Three of them are multi-tiered.
No. 5 is the feature hole, a picturesque, 335-yard, par 4 with a tee shot that must carry the Laguna Madre into a sharp dogleg-right fairway. On the back, No. 11 is unique because of the giant mesquite tree that dominates the middle of the fairway. Hole 12 can be interesting: it's a short par 3 that is completely surrounded by water.
The facility has plans for slow expansion based on how quickly the residential lots are developed. A second 18-hole course is under construction, with three holes complete. Designed by Chris Cole and Jeff Potts, this layout will feature only par 3 and par 4 holes and play to 5,400 yards.
Getting there : The club is on Hwy 100 before you cross over the causeway onto the island of South Padre. Turn right on FM 520 and continue for 2.5 miles to the course.
| Tee | Par | Length | Rating | Slope |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black | 72 | 6931 yards | 72.8 | 130 |
| Blue | 72 | 6291 yards | 70.8 | 127 |
| White | 72 | 5542 yards | 67.6 | 121 |
| White (W) | 72 | 5542 yards | 72.9 | 126 |
| Red | 72 | 5239 yards | 66.7 | 114 |
| Red (W) | 72 | 5239 yards | 71.6 | 120 |
| Gold | 72 | 4079 yards | 62.2 | 106 |
| Gold (W) | 72 | 4079 yards | 64.8 | 109 |
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black M: 74.0/130 W: 81.9/151 | 396 | 403 | 190 | 571 | 335 | 163 | 528 | 415 | 455 | 3456 | 407 | 409 | 133 | 547 | 435 | 165 | 428 | 541 | 410 | 3475 | 6931 |
| Blue M: 71.0/129 W: 78.0/145 | 347 | 346 | 162 | 525 | 296 | 142 | 506 | 377 | 428 | 3129 | 364 | 357 | 116 | 504 | 393 | 140 | 395 | 503 | 390 | 3162 | 6291 |
| White M: 69.7/122 W: 72.9/128 | 318 | 336 | 155 | 494 | 255 | 135 | 480 | 363 | 392 | 2928 | 351 | 325 | 106 | 476 | 375 | 130 | 385 | 490 | 372 | 3010 | 5938 |
| White/Red M: 68.3/115 W: 72.7/126 | 318 | 301 | 155 | 494 | 222 | 135 | 480 | 325 | 355 | 2785 | 351 | 325 | 106 | 476 | 353 | 115 | 364 | 490 | 340 | 2920 | 5705 |
| Red M: 65.9/112 W: 71.4/118 | 288 | 301 | 102 | 460 | 222 | 117 | 443 | 325 | 355 | 2613 | 324 | 309 | 90 | 362 | 353 | 115 | 364 | 369 | 340 | 2626 | 5239 |
| Gold M: 62.4/97 W: 64.5/109 | 229 | 234 | 95 | 354 | 125 | 95 | 350 | 250 | 264 | 1996 | 232 | 244 | 86 | 348 | 240 | 103 | 254 | 363 | 213 | 2083 | 4079 |
| Handicap | 11 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 4 | |||
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 36 | 72 |
| Handicap (W) | 9 | 13 | 15 | 1 | 11 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 14 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 2 | 12 | 4 |
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Photo submitted by Apmagic on 08/08/2025
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Photo submitted by Apmagic on 08/08/2025
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Photo submitted by Jakeorod on 04/20/2025
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A birdie! Photo submitted by u314163725067 on 03/01/2023
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Par 3 Photo submitted by Myaranda on 11/10/2019
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SPI golf club Photo submitted by vanessahersh on 06/09/2013
Poor condition
Every hole had chemical burns, from misuse of chemicals. Should alert patron prior or reduce green fees. Also mosquitoes were beyond belief. Have played cours before and was in excellent condition, this time it was badly damaged.
Course needs a lot of work:(
I have played this course quite a bit, used to be a member. Came back for work trip and was very disappointed in the course condition. Great track and challenging but whoever is managing the course sure blew it! Dead grass everywhere, dirt tee boxes and dead areas around the green. Hopefully they will get this corrected but they have a lot of work a head of them.
Staff is great and I enjoy the 19th hole. The marshals do a great job and keep the pace of play moving.
Not worth the $
Approximately 8 weeks ago the ground staff sprayed the course to kill the weeds. Instead they totally nuked the course by killing to the dirt all the ground cover. Tee boxes, rough and green approaches destroyed. It will take a major effort to regrow which the course has not attempted to do yet. STAY AWAY.
What happened?
What looks like dead grass from t boxes through the fairway to areas around the greens. Evidently grass killer was used. Greens had been punched and sanded which seems late from what I know about other courses I play. There are still bad spots in the greens from prior year issues. Potentially a great course set up near a great beach area at SPI. I don’t think it was worth $58 on a Monday. I’ve played this course dozens of times and am disappointed.
SLOW
Made the mistake of playing on holiday weekend-5 1/4 hours. The 2 groups ahead of us playing from blue tees, and taking 2 or 3 shots to get past the forward tee blocks. No Marshall's on the course for entire round.
Never play here on a weekend or BYOB.
Huge areas of dormant/dead grass on fairways and around greens from? misapplied chemicals.
Burnt-chemical/herbicide?
Large swaths of fairways and around greens are light brown grass next to green grass. Many greens have damaged areas. Many areas of "rough" are bare clay.
The layout is challenging but fair for straight hitter.
The standard price is excessive for the course condition but they obviously need $$ for remediation. Hot Deal price plus monthly $10 coupon is only way I play.
Talk about dead
Warning! Dead grass ahead. What a disappointment. Something went terribly wrong with the groundskeeper. Looks like they sprayed all the tee boxes, rough and parts of the fairways with Roundup. All 18 holes completely dead. Greens were decent and I loved the layout. Bunkers were hard as concrete. Don’t pay to play till grass is OK. There should be a warning when booking tee times.
Some greens are dead and no cart path
Good course but no cart path on some holes and we’re asking for 90 degree to ball.. some greens were dead. To pricy for ok course.
Great Round
Staff was friendly, Course was in great shape. Biggest improvement was the attitude and friendliness of the course marshals, quite often before we would be met at the first tee box by an overzealous somewhat power hungry marshal that was trying to be intimidating before we had pulled our driver out. Absolutely was a detriment to an otherwise great experience. Hats off to management for bringing onboard new Marshalls that are good representatives of an excellent course.
Paul & Korianne
Beautiful nature to go with golf! Great layout, all holes are unique and are fun to play.
A challenging course with lots of opportunities for improvement in conditions
We enjoyed the round but we’re surprised that the condition s weren’’t better
Paul & Korianne
Great that the gps is working now and we can get the yardage off the flagsticks.
Last minute plans
My friends, and I decided Friday, that we wanted to play Monday, and it worked out great.
Paul & Korianne
Most flags do not have gps so you can’t get the yardage with a Bushnell which is very frustrating
