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Great Golf in Port Aransas on the Texas Gulf Coast
February 04, 2010
By: Steve Habel - Read the full Story on CyberGolf.comNewport Dunes makes its mark in Port Aransas in a Hurry
Located on the northern tip of Mustang Island, Port Aransas is the hub of coastal activities and family fun on the Texas Coast. The bays, jetties and deep Gulf waters offer the finest fishing around, and the town - known locally as "Port A" - boasts beautiful beaches leading to the deep-blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
It's also the perfect spot for a true links-style course, a vision that Arnold Palmer Design Group turned into reality with Newport Dunes Golf Club. Weighing in at 6,821 wind-swept yards from the tips, the par-71 track meanders through sweeping, untamed native dunes and offers spectacular views of both the Gulf of Mexico and Corpus Christi Bay.
An Aerial View of the 13th & 14th Holes at Newport Dunes
Reminiscent of the coastal links in Scotland, Newport Dunes tests golfers with ocean breezes, rolling fairways lined with native grasses and imposing greens. The design combines with the nature to uncover a new golf experience on each round. True to its design charter, Newport Dunes features stacked-wall bunkers and deceptive landing areas, all of which make the course - rated at 72.9 and sloped at 121 - play much harder than the scorecard indicates.
"We truly believe that Newport Dunes plays more like a course with a 138 or 139 slope because of the bunkers, the winds and the contours on the greens," said Kevin Michael, Newport Dunes' general manager. "Our fairways here - which are grassed with Seashore Paspalum - are wide, but they are rolling, and they end with punitive native areas."
Newport Dunes is the first "ocean-side" track designed by Palmer in North America and the only course to fit the category in Texas. The fairways traverse over, up, down and through the dunes and past native flora, rare and endangered seaside plants and the verdant seashore grass, making it visually stunning and a blast to play.
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For more details on Newport Dunes, visit www.newportdunesgolf.com.
Posted: February 4, 2010 12:30 PM
