Mike Keiser’s Next Great Golf Destination Has Arrived

Tom Doak’s layout done forest, meadows and spring-fed creeks is opening astatine Wild Spring Dunes successful Texas, nan latest earthy play mecca from Mike Keiser.

If you’ve been Mike Keiser’s Bandon Dunes successful Oregon aliases Sand Valley successful Wisconsin, aliases simply cherish play successful its astir earthy forms, nan developer has a caller must-play task successful Texas.

At Wild Spring Dunes, 20 miles northbound of Nacogdoches successful East Texas, acclaimed designer Tom Doak (who did Pacific Dunes and Old Macdonald astatine Bandon) has crafted a people done forest, meadows and spring-fed creeks. Its first 8 holes are opening for preview play later this month, pinch a expansive opening group for Fall 2026.

The edifice shared a fewer photos pinch Sports Illustrated successful beforehand of nan opening.

An aerial photograph of nan growing-in connected nan backmost nine. / Courtesy Wild Spring Dunes

Wild Spring Dunes is group complete much than 2,400 secluded acres pinch sandy ungraded that is perfect for golf.

“This is simply a really unsocial portion of land. There was a responsibility statement that ran done thousands of years ago, past collapsed,” said Tom Ferrell, vice president of media and communications for Michael Keiser Properties. “I person spent a batch of clip successful nan foothills of nan Appalachian mountains successful it, and it reminds maine of that.”

Wild Spring Dunes is surrounded by nationalist and backstage wood lands. / Courtesy Wild Spring Dunes

Construction of nan Doak people began successful January and has progressed quickly, to nan constituent that holes 1 done 8 will beryllium unfastened Nov. 12 (preview rounds see playing nan eight-hole loop twice).

The par-5 2nd hole, wherever players must navigate transverse bunkering connected nan layup to group up an uphill attack to a greenish that falls distant agelong and left. / Courtesy Wild Spring Dunes

The par-3 3rd spread plays uphill complete 1 of nan property's galore ravines. / Courtesy Wild Spring Dunes

The drivable par-4 7th hole. / Courtesy Wild Spring Dunes

And nan awesome play astatine Wild Spring Dunes won’t extremity pinch nan Doak course, arsenic Coore and Crenshaw person already completed nan routing for a 2nd course.