Avery Ranch Golf Club in Austin justifies the hype. Course reviews at GolfTexas.com
July 26, 2007 (Press Release) --
By Steve Habel,
Contributor,
Golf Publisher Syndications
AUSTIN, Texas - Avery Ranch Golf Club was only built in 2001, but its notoriety belies its youth.
Various golf publications have lauded the golf course for its superb conditions, its clubhouse, its dining area, its overall
design and even its cart girls. Hosting the annual Dennis Quaid Charity Weekend, a golf event and gala that benefits local
children's charities, garners the course more attention.
Course architect Andy Raugust - a longtime member of the Jack Nicklaus design team who worked on the spectacular
Cabo del Sol in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico - pairs the panoramic vistas and gentle rolling hills with oak-lined fairways and a
60-acre lake.
The 226-acre site northwest of downtown Austin, long ago home to Native American tribes and a military post, presented
one major design hurdle, heavy deposits of limestone. Raugust used dynamite on five holes to blast out of some of the
rock, but otherwise terrain changes were minor.
"The first time I visited the property, I thought it was a great piece of land that was notorious for rock," he said. "Avery
Ranch was a relatively easy course to design because the land actually dictated where the course should go. The trees
were spaced out pretty well throughout the course, and we really didn't have to do much alteration to the land."
The natural beauty is there from the start. The par-4, 377-yard first plays past an inlet of Brushy Creek, which runs
throughout the course and offers various scenic challenges. You need to clear the creek off the tee and stay between the
trees lining both sides of the fairway, as they do on most holes.
For more details visit - :
http://www.golftexas.com/departments/coursereviews/austin-avery-ranch-golf-club-5732.htm
July 25, 2007
Any opinions expressed above are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of the management.
Author/Company
GolfPublisher Syndications
Email - golfpublisherusa@gmail.com
Website - http://www.golftexas.com
Contributor,
Golf Publisher Syndications
AUSTIN, Texas - Avery Ranch Golf Club was only built in 2001, but its notoriety belies its youth.
Various golf publications have lauded the golf course for its superb conditions, its clubhouse, its dining area, its overall
design and even its cart girls. Hosting the annual Dennis Quaid Charity Weekend, a golf event and gala that benefits local
children's charities, garners the course more attention.
Course architect Andy Raugust - a longtime member of the Jack Nicklaus design team who worked on the spectacular
Cabo del Sol in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico - pairs the panoramic vistas and gentle rolling hills with oak-lined fairways and a
60-acre lake.
The 226-acre site northwest of downtown Austin, long ago home to Native American tribes and a military post, presented
one major design hurdle, heavy deposits of limestone. Raugust used dynamite on five holes to blast out of some of the
rock, but otherwise terrain changes were minor.
"The first time I visited the property, I thought it was a great piece of land that was notorious for rock," he said. "Avery
Ranch was a relatively easy course to design because the land actually dictated where the course should go. The trees
were spaced out pretty well throughout the course, and we really didn't have to do much alteration to the land."
The natural beauty is there from the start. The par-4, 377-yard first plays past an inlet of Brushy Creek, which runs
throughout the course and offers various scenic challenges. You need to clear the creek off the tee and stay between the
trees lining both sides of the fairway, as they do on most holes.
For more details visit - :
http://www.golftexas.com/departments/coursereviews/austin-avery-ranch-golf-club-5732.htm
July 25, 2007
Any opinions expressed above are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of the management.
Author/Company
GolfPublisher Syndications
Email - golfpublisherusa@gmail.com
Website - http://www.golftexas.com
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