PECAN PLANTATION COUNTRY CLUB

The rolling hills of North Texas create natural elevation changes that architect Jay Riviere exploited brilliantly, with the par-4 7th playing dramatically downhill to a green guarded by century-old pecan trees. Water comes into play on eight holes, but it's the strategic bunkering and undulating bentgrass greens that separate good rounds from great ones here. This mature layout rewards precision over power, making it a thinking golfer's course where course management trumps raw distance.