The Club at Carlton Woods Golf Courses Review

The Carlton Woods golf club was built on a beautiful piece of real estate in the Woodlands, Texas and it was designed by two of the worlds most famous architects: Jack Nicklaus in 2001 and Tom Fazio in 2005. The golf course designed by Tom Fazio ranked fifth in Texas as per Golf Digests 2013 2014 Best in State list while the Jack Nicklaus signature ranked 8th in the same issue of the magazine. The Carlton Woods golf club makes for a very interesting gated community located on the north side of Houston and its home for 2 of the regions best golf courses. As I already told you, one of them was designed by a legendary golf player (thats Jack) and the other by a legendary golf-architect (that would be Tom), thus the Carlton Woods can be described accurately as being a league of legends if it ever was one.

These 2 golf design titans did a fantastic job at the Carlton Woods. The Nicklaus designed course was the first one built on the property and obviously the first opened for players, featuring its own clubhouse, i.e. being separated from the Fazio course. The design is a parkland style golf course and it weaves through the old trees scattered on the property, alongside a few water hazards. The Jack Nicklaus course is well known for its challenging par fours together with the water hazards which come into play on half of its holes. The Tom Fazio course is a rare bird in Houston as it boasts its undulating terrain and an amazing variety of hole shapes, lengths and strategies. Another memorable feature of the Fazio course is its par 3 16th, where a bunker runs from tee to green tying the flow of the course together. Both golf courses at the Carlton Woods are generally acclaimed as among of Houstons best, with solid routings; some folks say that the Fazio is marginally better than Nicklauss, but youll have to play them both and decide for yourself.