The Clubs at Houston Oaks

About the club

In 2006, The Clubs at Houston Oaks took over the land of Tennwood Country Club (formerly a Tenneco Oil & Gas Company recreational facility), and in 2017, tasked Chet Williams—designer of Whispering Pines, the top-ranked course in Texas—with transforming the layout. Williams extensively changed Ralph Plummer’s 1956 design, redoing every bunker and regrassing the entire property with Celebration and TifEagle Bermudagrass. The renovation also saw multiple holes rerouted to create the new signature holes at the par-3 fifth, now with an island green, as well as the par-4 11th, played to a fairway dissected by water. The new design takes advantage of the site’s naturally occurring undulations with wide fairways that snake their way around mature oak trees and play to large, intimidating greensites with challenging runoffs.