Golf courses in Texas

Texas has the fifth-most courses mapped in Yardage of any state and the second-fewest per resident. Both are true at once because the state is enormous: 801 mapped courses, 5.34% of the national catalog, spread across the second-largest state population works out to 2.53 courses per 100,000 people, 49th of 50, or one course for every 39,588 Texans.

Houston holds 50 of them, tied for the second-most of any city in the catalog, and the city parks department’s five courses, Memorial Park, Hermann Park, Gus Wortham Park, Sharpstown and Melrose, are all mapped. San Antonio has 28, Austin 25 (Lions Municipal among them), and Dallas and Fort Worth 20 each, with Fort Worth’s Meadowbrook and Pecan Valley municipals in the list. Texas A&M’s course in College Station is mapped as well.

Texas has 621 eighteen-hole courses mapped and 180 nine-hole, a 22.5% nine-hole share. The nines live in the small towns: the directory runs to 369 Texas towns and 256 of them list one course, and out in the Panhandle and West Texas many of them are county or municipal courses, Andrews County, Winkler County, Perryton and Hereford among the mapped ones. The season is year-round nearly everywhere, with the Gulf Coast humid, the Hill Country around Austin and San Antonio hilly and limestone-hard, and the Panhandle the region most likely to lose a few winter weeks.

The Golf Course Census shows how Texas compares on every measure. Our guide to playing a course for the first time is a useful read in a state this big, and the national directory covers the other 49.

Most courses: Houston (50), San Antonio (28), Austin (25), Dallas (20), Fort Worth (20).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates (July 1, 2025) (31,709,821 residents). Counts are courses mapped in Yardage, not an official registry.

Courses by city

Is your course mapped?

With 369 Texas towns in the catalog, search by course name to see whether yours is mapped.

Missing a course?

If a Texas course is not listed, give us the name and town and we will look into mapping it.