Among the many signs of golf addiction is a love of following courses in development, from opening date to opening day.
If you betray that symptom, face it, you’re a junkie, and we’ve got a newsletter for you. It includes Wild Spring Dunes, a new entrant in destination golf.
Given, um, let’s call it a passion, not a compulsion, for gaming, you probably know the basics. But here’s a refresher, just in case. Wild Spring Dunes is the latest project from Valley of sand co-developer Michael Keiser, and is taking shape in the wild sands of East Texas—roughly equidistant from Dallas and Houston, and 72 miles from Shreveport, La. The property spans more than 2,400 acres of dunes, meadows and spring-fed creeks where Tom Doak has passed.
Eight holes of that course have now been completed and pre-play begins on them on November 12.
Call it a first taste, with many more to come. A second course, from Bill Coore AND Ben Crenshawit is already being cleaned. Plans also call for a short course, a putting course and a state-of-the-art practice facility, all part of an emergency golf resort and community. Privately owned villas and estate houses are now available. A clubhouse and lodge are also in the works. Although golf will be the main attraction, the property will also offer fishing and hiking, among other outdoor activities.
For Keiser, the son of Bandon Dunes founder Mike Keiser, the news comes amid a busy stretch as he moves forward on two other major golf developments: Dunes Rodeojust outside of Denver, where the pre-show was staged on 11 holes this summer, and Old Shores on the Florida wing, currently in pre-construction.
For golf lovers, the progress at Wild Springs Dunes is something else to behold – and to play. More information is available here.
