Golfers Guide Central Texas Golf Courses

Celebrates Silver Anniversary

Cooks Eyes Three-Peat

This month one of the Champions Tours original events, San Antonio’s own AT&T Championship presented by Alcatel-Lucent, is turning 25. Seventy-eight of the top players on the 50-and-over circuit, including two-time defending champion John Cook, will descend upon Oak Hills Country Club Oct. 19-25 to compete for a $1.7 million purse and make a few last minute modifications before the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup.

Founded as the Dominion Seniors in 1985, the AT&T Championship has become a fixture on the Central Texas golf calendar over the years. Past winners of the 54-hole event include Lee Trevino, Fred Funk, Jay Haas, Craig Stadler and Cook.

For more than a decade, Foresight Golf has been developing and maintaining golf courses with the customer in mind. For those not familiar with the Boerne, Texas-based company, perhaps these names will ring a bell - The Bandit Golf Club in New Braunfels, The Buckhorn Golf Course in Comfort, The Republic Golf Club and Pecan Valley Golf Club in San Antonio. And those are just the San Antonio-area courses!

Convenient to both Austin and San Antonio and sporting an abundance of brilliant Hill Country scenery, Vaaler Creek Golf Club is still considered a “Hidden Gem,” but this up-and-coming course is ready to break out in a big way Imagine if you will Vaaler Creek Golf Club as a young talented running back who begins the year under the radar, but by seasons end he’s amassed 1,500 yards and 15 touchdowns and is the talk of the league.

Designed by the team of Michael Lowry and JR Newman, Vaaler Creek officially opened to the public as an 18-hole facility on the Fourth of July and has been drawing positive reviews from everyone who has since come to experience the challenge and thrills of the Hill Country layout.