Golfing is a great sport and Texas is home to some awesome golf courses. You may golf at more than 900 courses in Texas, including two Tour 18 golf courses, one in Houston and one in Dallas. These golf courses recreate world famous golf holes for a challenge at each hole. For fast free information on golfing, click to order FREE Texas Golf Guide. You may also wish to Search for Texas golf courses by fees or by whether it is public, private or resort golf course.

Here are a few popular golf courses in Texas.

• Alamo Country Club in San Antonio
• Padre Isles Country Club on North Padre Island
• Crenshaw Cliffside At Barton Creek
• Bayou Din Golf Club in Beaumont

Some of the most well-known golf courses in Texas are:

• Painted Dunes Desert Golf Course in El Paso is one of the premiere golf courses in the Southwest United States.
• Waterwood National Resort and Golf Course at Lake Livingston is ranked by Golf Digest as one of the best golf courses in the state
• Tapatio Springs outside of Boerne is regarded as one of the top golf resorts in South Texas and home to 27 holes of championship golf on three courses.
• Quarry Golf Club in San Antonio is a world class course with a back nine which descends into a massive limestone quarry surrounded by 100 foot cliff walls.
• Mill Creek Golf Resort and Country Club in Salado is a Robert Trent Jones golf course.
• Columbia Lakes Resort Hotel in West Columbia outside of Houston is one of the top ten resort courses in Texas.
• Ambush at Lajitas Golf Course features four holes on an island in the Rio Grande River and an optional par one in Mexico.
• Horseshoe Bay Resort Golf Course was designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr.

Scheduled 2007 PGA tournaments in Texas:

• March 26-April 1, 2007, The Shell Houston Open, held at Redstone Golf Club Tournament Course in Houston.
• April 25-29, 2007, EDS Byron Nelson Championship at Cottonwood Valley Golf Club in Irving and TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas.
• May 21-27, 2006, Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth is the longest running event on the PGA Tour still held at original site.
• October 4-7, 2007, The Valero Texas Open at La Cantera in San Antonio

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Whooping Cranes

February 10-11, 2007
Eagle Fest in Emory, Texas – Barge Eagle tours on Lake Fork, exhibitions and lectures, Native American art and performances.

February 15-18, 2007
Brownsville International Birding Festival – Enjoy field trips, seminars, explore the biodiversity of south Texas and northern Mexico.

February 18-22, 2007
El Cielo Nature Festival, Ciudad Mante, Tamaulipas, Mexico – This festival is sponsored by the McAllen and Brownsville Chambers of Commerce. El Cielo is located in northeast Mexico includes the northernmost cloud forest in the North American continent.

February 23-27, 2007
Annual Celebration of Whooping Cranes and Other Birds in Port Aransas – Guided tours of birding centers, wetland habitats, art exhibits, seminars, singing zoologists and more.

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Star Parties in Texas

In Austin, there are Star Gazing and Moonlighting Tours (weather permitting) at Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve each month. Star Gazing takes place with the crescent moon and Moonlighting Tours happen around the full moon.

For a list of the Austin Astronomical Society’s planned star parties for 2007, please visit the website. The star parties are held, weather permitting, at the Eagle Eye Observatory at the Canyon Of The Eagles on Lake Buchannan.

The 29th Annual Texas Star Party will be hosted on the Prude Ranch, a 3,500 acre mile-high ranch located six miles northwest of Fort Davis on May 13-20, 2007.

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