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The first "daily fee" course built in the Rio Grande Valley, Tierra Santa opened in 1997 as the centerpiece of a residential community. This challenging 18-hole track was designed by Jeff Brauer, who consulted with PGA Tour pro Steve Elkington to sculpt the flat farmland into undulating fairways that wind through a total of 14 lakes.
The course is very challenging, with water on most holes, significant length, and wind that seems to always blow strong. The lush fairways are covered in bunkers, and most holes are finished off with extremely large, fast greens that reek of championship quality. The trick here is to know where to bail out, as many "safe" bailout areas were incorporated into the layout.
Five of the par 4s are over 430 yards. The 3rd hole offers a risk-reward decision with a double fairway that tempts you with a 200-yard carry over water on one side, and a safe landing area to the right. The most difficult hole on the course is the 443-yard No. 5, which features a 200-yard carry off the tee and water on the left of the fairway and beside the green. No. 9 can get you as well-it's a 460-yard monster with bunkers all over the fairway.
The scenic 18th is the signature hole at 451 yards with water along the left side and bunkers on the right. Your approach shot must carry the waterfall fronting the green.
Getting there : From Harlingen or McAllen, take Hwy 83 to the Westgate exit. Drive 3.5 miles to the end of the road where the course is located.
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Top Courses in Texas(2024 #22)
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Conditions4.4
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Value4.7
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Layout4.5
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Friendliness4.6
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Amenities4.6
Golfer Reviews
Good course
It is a good course to play, but beware there is no cart girl so get your goodies before or at the turn. Greens were slow for my liking
Challenging course
Tee times are tight on some days. Staff and courze ammenities are great. Pace of play was really good. Slower paced 4somes usually let you play through. Fairways are in really good condition. The greens had been recently aeriated and sanded. Thus they were harder and faster than usual. They could improve their sand bunkers by plowing them deeper. They were hard and compact. Love the course dogs. Well taken care of and friendly!
Great course
Swear they changed the course holes! I thought the back nine was to the east of the club house. That is now the front 9,...not that it matters. Fairway conditions were much better than last year. More rain,...great news! Greens were recently sanded and thus a little dry and very fast., but....in great shape. The tee boxes were good. Pace of play was pretty normal for this time of year. They have improved their dr8ving range by putting in turf to hit off of for more consistancy.
This course has beautiful hills
This course has beautiful hills. Driving range is also good.
I would recommend the course!! I really enjoyed it.
Best all around for your money
Course is always in great condition. The practice facilities are always in great condition. Course is always fun to play, it’s good for beginners as well as your low handicaps. After the round the bar and grille are the best of any valley course hands down. The people who work there are also very polite. This is the 3rd toughest course by rating in the Valley as well. For the price and the food this is the best course to come play in the RGV.
Great golf course, terrible pace of play
I’ve had some slow rounds at Tierra Santa and it worked out fine because of the golf course being in great condition, but this time it didn’t matter how nice it was because Tierra Santa allowed a two groups 4 who showed up late for their tee time to go ahead in front of my group of two. After the first hole the two groups of 4 grouped together and became a group of 8. It took my wife and I 2 hours and 45 minutes to play the front nine and we stopped after 14 holes because we were already going over 4 hours on the on the first 4 holes on the back nine. Not a Marshall in sight to manage the pace of play. Tierra Santa is one of the great golf courses of the valley but the pace of play is not worth the price of admission if it keeps going like this.
Over watered course and cart path
The course itself is nice the way it’s kept is horrible the cart paths were flooded everywhere and unplayable sand traps soggy ruff skid marks all over from golf carts.
1 water can on the course.
They have a lot of work to do on this before any of us could play here again
To bad it could be a good course
Nice round of golf at Tierra Santa with my son
Golf course with above average course layout and playing conditions. Greens in excellent condition as well as tee boxes.We were one of the first groups out so pace of play was smooth, however, they do over-saturate the entire course which affects early tee times. Also, no cart gal as well as closed grill was disappointing, especially considering the folks the pay the most for tee times are early weekend rounds like the one we booked on a early Friday morning.
Overall though, I would say the course is well maintained and definitely one of the better golf courses I the 956 --- just need to improve on amenities, customer service, and not totally soaking the entire golf course before early weekend tee times.
Good course
It was very windy, but we enjoyed the round anyway.
The green are not uniform in terms of speed. Some are very fast and others somewhat slow.
Overall, this is a good course.
Best in the Valley
This is the best golf course in the Rio Grande Valley. The course was in great shape with excellent greens, plus good staff, golf carts with gps and Tony's grill and bar. Will come back for sure !
Good course
Whenever i played this course it was very good course with comportable
Tierra Santa is worth playing
Really enjoyed the course layout. Greens and tboxes on better shape than most courses in the valley. Pace of play wasn't horrible but the group in front of us definitely had one player playing from the wrong tees. Other than that was definitely worth playing and will play it again!
