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FLOWER MOUND, Texas -- Whether you're coming cheap venice hotels to the Dallas-Fort cheap venice hotels Worth area for the Super Bowl or any other event and decide to bring your sticks, there's one novelty you won't want to pass up: Tour 18 Dallas .
To characterize Tour 18 Dallas as an original might seem a bit odd considering the nature of the golf course. But given that it plays so differently from the original cheap hotel rooms Tour 18 Houston, the description doesn't seem like such a stretch. While the two courses have seven holes in common, including cheap venice hotels three holes designed to replicate Augusta National's famed Amen Corner, the topography cheap venice hotels in this north Dallas suburb is so different than Houston that they seem like two entirely different cheap hotel rooms golf courses.
Plus, when you consider cheap hotel rooms the holes that the two golf courses don't have in common, the differences are obvious. Where Tour 18 Houston opens with Harbour Town Golf Links, Tour 18 Dallas opens with the first hole at Cherry Hills, where Arnold Palmer drove the green to win the 1960 U.S. Open. And you won't find Winged Foot, Medinah cheap venice hotels or Southern Hills at Tour 18 Houston, either. You'll only find them in Dallas, cheap hotel rooms which is really like Tour 18 Part 2.
Soon after, the concept was challenged legally by some of the original cheap hotel rooms venues. It seemed that owners of courses such as Harbour Town, Pinehurst No. 2 and Pebble Beach didn't want replicas opening throughout the country. As a result, cheap venice hotels certain concessions had to be made, including the removal of the red and white lighthouse behind the facsimile of Harbour cheap hotel rooms Town's 18th hole on both courses.
cheap venice hotels In the end, though, it was a victory of sorts for Tour 18 and golfers, most of whom will never get to play the original courses. And while these are the only two Tour 18s, other replica-type courses did spring up elsewhere.
cheap hotel rooms Like Houston, cheap hotel rooms the most popular recreations at Tour 18 Dallas are the Augusta National holes and the island green at the Stadium Course cheap venice hotels at TPC Sawgrass. In both cases, the Sawgrass hole is the ninth at Tour 18. But the biggest difference between the two is the treatment of Amen Corner.
In particular, Tour 18 Dallas closes with Amen Corner, while it's on the front nine in Houston. And unlike Houston, cheap hotel rooms tall pines aren't indigenous to the region, so that element is missing. Still, it's the main draw. Golfers cheap hotel rooms come into the 16th hole knowing cheap venice hotels they have to play away from the pond left of the green just like they would at Augusta's 11th. They know they have to pull the right club on the shallow green of the par-3 17th (Augusta's 12th). And with a good drive, you can hit the par-5 18th in two, just like you can at Augusta's dogleg left par-5 13th.
"It almost kills our twilight cheap hotel rooms golfer," said General Manager Nic Edwards. cheap venice hotels "Some of them ask if they can start on the back nine, but of course we can't do that. They all want to play the Augusta holes."
Even if you've cheap venice hotels played the Houston version, you'll still want to check Dallas out. There are enough new holes to experience that make the courses significantly different. Houston probably does a little better job with the Augusta National holes because of the pine trees, but Dallas excels on other holes such as Oakmont Country Club's third and its church pew bunkers.
In recent years, the course cheap venice hotels hasn't been overseeded wall to wall, but that could change this fall with the Super Bowl coming to town. Edwards said officials are considering overseeding the course with an expected peak in business in late January and early February.
cheap venice hotels The facility also has full service restaurant overlooking the island green ninth hole. Inside, there are flat-screen TVs for watching golf and other sports, and plenty of help to serve you. The clubhouse also has its 2,000-square-foot U.S. Open Room, designed for tournament gatherings, cheap venice hotels large events and even weddings.
Mike Bailey is a senior cheap hotel rooms staff writer based in the Houston area. Focusing primarily on golf in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America, he contributes course reviews, travel stories and features as well as the occasional equipment review. An award-winning writer and past president of Texas Golf Writers cheap hotel rooms Association, he has more than 15 years in the golf industry. Before joining the WorldGolf.com team in 2008, he held positions at PGA Magazine, The Golfweek Group and AvidGolfer cheap hotel rooms Magazine. cheap hotel rooms Read Mike's golf blog here and follow him on Twitter here.
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