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Drive behind the gates and experience the world of Royal Oaks Country Club, the only new private golf-course and country-club community of its stature to be developed within the Houston city limits in 50 years, located eight miles west of the Galleria in the 11800 block of Westheimer. When completed, the luxury-home community will feature 930 single-family homes priced from $450,000 to over $3,000,000. Completely surrounded by a brick wall, Royal Oaks residents enter through a gatehouse that is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with video-monitored, controlled access entrances for residents and guests only. A 48,000-square-foot Main Clubhouse will provide country-club amenities of the highest quality, including fine dining with a selectively stocked wine cellar, private meeting rooms, a formal lawn, a pro shop and spa/locker room facilities with private lounge, bar and media center. Members and residents will also enjoy the facilities of the Royal Oaks Sports Club and Spa with a Fitness Center, Tennis Complex, casual Grille, croquet lawn, entertaining areas and Tot Stop for children.

The Fred Couples Signature Course Carved from a 490-acre site of dense woodlands on the west side of Houston's city limits, The Fred Couples Signature Golf Course at Royal Oaks Country Club is a parkland style golf course featuring manicured turf and landscaping set alongside elegant water features. Towering stands of mature pines and oak trees frame its traditional design features, among which are gentle slopes and a classic bunkering style reminiscent of great courses created during golf's golden age of design. Officially unveiled on Labor Day 2000, the 7,007-yard, 72-par course features 18 holes of rolling fairways, dramatic water features and multi-tiered greens. The Fred Couples Signature Golf Course delivers a combination of beauty and challenge to rival the world’s premier golfing experiences. Brian Curley, golf course architect with Schmidt Curley Golf Course Architecture/Planning, and Fred Couples, noted PGA Tour player and golf course design consultant, approached the design with a very technical method of creating movement on the existing flat terrain, the former location of the old Andrau Airport. With the basic framework of technical design and infrastructure in place, the designers set out to create a visually dramatic course featuring an overall look based largely on turf and trees. This traditional style makes for a very playable course for all levels of players, yet will, with length, certainly challenge the better golfer.

Couples' view on the design of the course "I love traditional courses. So, when designing the course at Royal Oaks, we began with tradition, but relied on the latest techniques. The results are simply incredible. Stunning waterfalls, undulating greens, perfect landscaping and a challenging yet playable design will make every hole a pleasure for any level of golfer." Couples played the course for the first time in October, 2000 "Some of the shots look a lot like Augusta, which makes me very excited.  There are many similarities." Fred Couples, Masters Champion and famed Houston Golfer "We moved about 1.5 million cubic yards of dirt so the golf course would feel recessed in its own valley, lower than the surrounding homes," Curley explains. While this process could potentially create drainage problems, great effort and expense went into constructing a sub-grade system of storm pipes, sand capping and other methods to assure optimum playing conditions year round. Curley also notes that in the grand tradition of world-class golfing, the entire course was sodded and not "sprigged." "In keeping with the finest courses in the world,we sodded over 120 acres of the course including tees, greens, rough and fairways. This will allow our course to have mature turf conditions, excellent draining and optimum playing conditions. In addition, all the greens are sand-capped, which provides excellent drainage and ensures that the course is ready for play sooner after a hard rain." Golf Course Superintendent Terry Hutcherson, who is responsible for maintaining the golf course, says approximately 2,200 trees were transplanted on-site and 1,300 new, mature trees were planted along the fairways. "Most of the trees were planted with a 90-inch tree spade and 180 on-site trees were planted with a 14-foot spade. There are only 2 tree spades of this size in the world," states Hutcherson. Overseeing member instruction and clinics is David Altemus, Jr., Head Golf Professional at Royal Oaks. Members will be able to practice their swing on the double-ended driving range, perfect their putting skills on the practice green and improve short game techniques out of a sand bunker and the rough.

Tour 12 Show Homes Homes from the low $430’s to over            $3 million  On Westheimer Road,          eight miles west of the Galleria Phone: 281-542-5400      http://www.royaloakscchomes.com/

Call Royal Oaks CC Homes at (713) 875-7282 today!