Wildcat Golf Club - Lakes Course

Wildcat Golf Club - The Lakes is one of Houston's most architecturally unusual public tracks, a Roy Case design on a former municipal landfill, part of a 36-hole Wildcat facility (The Highlands is the sister course) that sits just 10 minutes south of downtown Houston off I-610. The Lakes opened in 2002, the year after The Highlands debuted in December 2001, and both courses are genuine 'garbage-into-gold' brownfield-to-golf conversions that emerged during the late-1990s landfill-reclamation wave in American public golf. Roy Case was a London-born, Jamaica-based architect who specialized in recycled-brownfield design, an unusually narrow specialty that made him the right architect for Wildcat's challenging substrate. The Lakes is the water-forward of the two 18s, tipping out at 7,016 yards par 72 and living up to its name with water in play on numerous holes. The dramatic elevation at the former landfill site creates downtown-Houston skyline views from several tee boxes, a genuinely unique Houston golf view, since the city's topography otherwise provides no elevation for skyline framing. For the Houston business-travel / family-trip golf visitor, Wildcat Lakes is the proximity pick: urban, novel, and paired naturally with The Highlands (also Roy Case) for a full Wildcat 36-hole day.