Yes, my dad use to work for Texaco in the 70's and would drag me along. Didn't they change the name?
quote:Hahah. I was just thinking this. Too bad my high school days spent about 2 days a week out here. Rough.
Longview Country Club between Longview and Kilgore...barren fairways combined with oil field equipment.
quote:Scariest shot ever. 12 YO boy trying to get across the ravine on number 1 with everyone watching you from the porch of the clubhouse.
Anyone here ever heard of Texaco Country Club?
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Battle Lake Golf Course outside of Waco. The Birdie Girls aren't bad though.
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The birdie girls (in the past four years) weren't good. Unless you liked chubby girls wearing sports bras and white trash chicks.
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Battle Lake Golf Course outside of Waco. The Birdie Girls aren't bad though.
Battle lake is bad. Really bad.
The birdie girls (in the past four years) weren't good. Unless you liked chubby girls wearing sports bras and white trash chicks.
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Heron Lakes of the top of my head. But I think there's more.
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Battle Lake Golf Course outside of Waco. The Birdie Girls aren't bad though.
Battle lake is bad. Really bad.
The birdie girls (in the past four years) weren't good. Unless you liked chubby girls wearing sports bras and white trash chicks.
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Rankin CC in Rankin, TX
You can still use wooden tees in the fairways. Next is McCamey CC in McCamey, both in Upton County. Can still use wooden tees in fairways there, too.
You big city boys are spoiled.
A friend of mine, who also grew up playing those courses, and I were at The Masters a couple of years ago. We were marveling at Augusta National, contrasting it with the courses we grew up playing.
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Electra Country Club is another....Only time I have ever been hit in the face with a golf ball.
quote:Born and raised Freeport. How old are you booradley?quote:Freeport is where I grew up... back then, the only golf course was a 9 hole course in town. I didn't play golf, but we took thousands of golf balls out of a pond in front of the first tee at night... luckily we never got caught...quote:quote:
You guys have clearly not seen the "executive" 9 hole course at Gabe Lozano in Corpus Christi.
You get to putt over ant hills
Freeport Muni was like that on occasion. It's also the only course I've ever played that clearly stated up front that they didn't issue rain-checks due to mosquitos. :-)
I work in Freeport now, the mosquitoes as freaking awful. But then again, so is this entire place.
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Born and raised Freeport. How old are you booradley?
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A generation apart. You were graduating Bport when I was being born
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I have got THE answer for us older guys. Navasota Municipal. I can't even begin to describe it.
quote:I got into a physical altercation with one of the course marshals there in probably 1997. We were playing in a scramble and he said we were playing too slow. Told us to move up to the 150 marker and play from there. I told him we were in the scramble and that the competition which would be screwed up if we did as he said. His reply was to try and jerk my driver out of my hand. The silly part was.....there was no one behind us!quote:It is totally different now. I got paired with this 40 year old FTW cop the other day that grew up in Euless and played it all the time growing up. He was out there for the first time since 1998 or so. He left for 16 years because the service pissed him off so bad. But those guys are all gone now. Their service is a lot like any other courses.quote:
Grapevine City Course was the worst run course that I ever played. The course itself was pretty good, but everything else was horrendous.
This was 15-20 years ago when that area exploded with growth. I'm sure they have different staff and things run smoother now. But it was awful. Every clich you can think of applied here.
This course almost always comes up on this board for courses people should play in the DFW.
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You guys have clearly not seen the "executive" 9 hole course at Gabe Lozano in Corpus Christi.
You get to putt over ant hills
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You guys have clearly not seen the "executive" 9 hole course at Gabe Lozano in Corpus Christi.
You get to putt over ant hills
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Anyone mention of the old par 3 course in B/CS?
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The worst golf course in my area is Chemlake in Pasadena, out by Celanese in the Bayport Industrial area. Worse than San Jac. Worse than Pine Shadows in Lake Charles.