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Golfing Communities
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Wichita’s golf course communities cluster
like emeralds on both the city’s far eastern edge and in northwest Wichita.
The area’s newest area, Auburn Hills, features approximately 800 homes in
the $135,000 to $200,000 range adjoining a public golf course. It stretches
along Kellogg / U.S. 54 at 135th Street West.
The course and clubhouse opened in the spring
of 2000, and home construction is still underway. Some Wichita homes, like
those which border Rolling Hills Country Club in west Wichita, have found
their way onto the fringe of the fairways without a master development plan,
at least not a plan such as has guided Crestview, Reflection Ridge, Tallgrass,
Terradyne and Willowbend.
These are the premier residential neighborhoods
whose principal attraction is golf. Golf with easy cart access straight
out of the garage. Challenging golf on beautifully maintained courses where
membership is related to home ownership.
Reflection Ridge is west Wichita’s golfing
community, and the newest of the links-based neighborhoods in town. Out
east, Willowbend at the northern urban series of golfing communities that
swing in a slow five-mile arc toward Kellogg. Tallgrass is beautiful and
challenging. Crestview is a single, large, upscale residential community
with two remarkable courses meandering along between Central and 13th Street
east of 127th Street. Terradyne completes the east-side course hop. Its
Scottish roughs abutting the Kansas Turnpike east of 159th Street, Terradyne
does not forgive hooks and slices of any magnitude at all.
A PGA-quality Tom Fazio course was opened
in November 1998 in Rose Hill, southeast of Wichita. Called the Flint Hills
National Golf Club, this exclusive facility is totally devoted to golf.
This will be no country club; caddies will be available at all times, and
players will be encouraged to walk the course. The topography is outstanding,
and the Fazio design will make the most of it - he’s designed Shadow Creek
in Nevada, for example, ostensibly the most difficult course in America
for which to obtain a tee time.
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AREA
GOLF COURSES |
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SUBURBAN COURSES
Andover Municipal
16020 E. Douglas
Augusta Country Club
1610 Fairway
Cherry Oaks Golf Course
1119 N. Main, Cheney
Clearwater Greens
14100 W. 94th S.
Derby Golf and Country Club
2600 Triple Creek Drive
Green Valley Greens
1208 W. Hwy 54
Hidden Lakes
6020 S Greenwich Road
Prairie Trails Golf and CC
1100 Country Club, El Dorado, KS
Wichita Public Golf Courses
Auburn Hills
1119 St. W. @ Maple
Braeburn Golf Course
4201 E. 21st
Echo Hills Golf Club
800 E 53rd
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LW Clapp
4611E.Harry
MacDonald Park
840 N. Yale
Pawnee Prairie Park
1931 S. Tyler
Pine Bay Golf Course
6615 S. Grove
Sim Park
2020 W. Murdock
Tex Consolver
1931 S. Tyler
Area Private Golf Courses
Crestview Country Club
1000 N. 127th St. E.
Flint Hills National
1 S. Flint Hills Ntl Blvd.
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Fox Ridge Golf Course
800 S. Kansas, Newton
Reflection Ridge
7700 Reflection Rd.
Rolling Hills
Country Club
9612 W. Maple
Tallgrass Club
2400 N. Tallgrass
Terradyne Country Club
1400 W. Terradyne
Twin Lakes Golf Club
McConnell AFB
Wichita Country Club
8501 E. 13th St.
Willowbend Golf Club
8001 E. Mulberry |
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Suburban Areas
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Those communities lying closest to
Wichita have become seamless in their transition from separate and
distinct rural communities to continuous suburb. Other communities,
lying a bit farther from downtown Wichita, have preserved a more rural
flavor.
Wichita and El Dorado, in Butler County,
are growing toward each other with Andover, Augusta, Towanda and Benton
in between. Past El Dorado, the scenic and beautiful Flint Hills begin.
North of Wichita is Harvey County, home to Newton, Hesston and other
clean communities where community growth and civic pride have advanced
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