El Dorado at Quail Valley Golf Course
About
Developers eventually had their way with this cow pasture on the fringe of Houston. Loaded with native pecans and oaks and supplemented with even more transplanted trees, the terrain is ideal for golf, with two creeks and five natural lakes on the property. In fact, it's good enough to host the PGA Tour's Houston Open in 1973 and 1974.
The traditional El Dorado Course plays to a par 70 and features five par 3s that go 190-yards-plus from the tips. Jay Riviere designed the back nine.
Jeff Blume managed the redesign and complete renovation of the El Dorado Course in 2009.
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Top Courses in Texas(2022 #22)
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Photo submitted by u000003288063 on 10/22/2025
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Weather beautiful Photo submitted by u000003288063 on 10/22/2025
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Conditions great Photo submitted by u000003288063 on 10/22/2025
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Photo submitted by Houston2020 on 09/27/2025
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Photo submitted by Houston2020 on 09/27/2025
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Photo submitted by 18Hdotorg on 05/30/2022
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Photo submitted by afmarko99 on 09/19/2020
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Photo submitted by caddyshack79 on 07/06/2020
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Golfer Reviews
Great course. Terrible greens.
I played this course on a weekday super twilight. The layout and the design of the course is really nice. However, the greens are another story. Completely bumpy. Sand all throughout. I wouldn’t pay weekend primetime rates for this condition.
Excellent, Challenging and Fun Course!
It’s in good shape always, great value and its fun and challenging.
Grumpy old men
My friend and I teed off at 12:10, there were 2 fivesomes in front of us, five carts in each group. So, on the 8th hole both of these groups are on the hole, one on the green and one waiting to tee off, we decided to skip the hole, and go to #9. Another fivesome was on the 9th green, as we prepared to hit our 2nd shot to the green, a guy with a Marshall flag came from the group we passed, and proceeded to tell us that we were not allowed to go around them, he was very rude and obnoxious. We complied and returned to the 8th tee box, the GPS in the cart reminded us through out the round, that we were behind schedule. The moral of the story is DO NOT PLAY at QUAIL VALLEY.
Slow pace, and greens are deteorating
Took almost 5 hours to complete my round. Regularly had 4 groups stacked up on one hole, and the Marshall was doing nothing about it. The greens here used to be great, but are heading downhill quickly. They need to do better soon, or will start losing customers.
Bunkers aren’t good anymore
Everthing’s fine except the bunkers that are hard with less amount of sand
Tough But FunTrack
A good course but not an easy layout. The course was in good shape with the exception of a few greens that had some bad spots due to disease or fungus. Otherwise the greens rolled well and the course is a challenging but fun layout in overall good condition. Definitely reccomended.
Greens
Greens missing grass grass not cut and slow
Letting things go not taking care of since laquinta has been remodeled. Before it was in excellent condition
Greens are terrible
The staff is not very friendly. This course is way over priced for the condition of the course and greens especially. $95 to play
Needs upkeep
Quail Valley El Dorado is a nice track. The greens on no 1, 2, 3, and some others are in bad shape. Merely putting paint on the greens is not good. Ball speeds are very erratic and you can’t get a feel for the greens easily.
Lots of areas on the fairways need to be watered; barely any grass there and one has a difficult time hitting of such hard pan dusty lies.
Not worth $60. If it wasn’t close to me I would think twice. Quail Valley needs to open their wallets and spend money on this great track. Stop being cheap.
This Use To Be A Good Course
Greens were in bad shape. Some kids route their bikes over several greens and Greens were bumping on more than a few holes. I am not saying it’s a bad course. It’s just not worth the money.