As I mentioned in my last post, I moved to Texas. After couple days of work my friend and I attended the PGA Tour event at Colonial Country Club on Saturday. That turned out to be lots of fun. However, on Sunday we were looking to play.

My friend hadn’t golfed in Oklahoma so we took the afternoon and headed up to Oklahoma to golf. It was about an hour and fifteen minutes to get to the course from where I’m at in Dallas. It wasn’t a bad drive and the last part of the trip is across Lake Texoma, which divides Texas and Oklahoma.

Chickasaw Pointe is located just across the lake and seems to be one of the premier courses in the area. I’ve even seen the course listed among the top public courses in Oklahoma.

We had a 2pm tee time and got there early enough to warm up. Somehow I found some magic on the range and carried that onto the course. Good thing too, because Chickasaw Pointe is a very tough golf course! More on that in a moment though.

The most interesting thing about the course is its nice setting. The clubhouse overlooks Lake Texoma and a few holes get you close to the water. You get a great look at the lake from the elevated 6th tee and then again near the 8th and 18th greens. You also get close to the lake on the 10th and 11th holes, however the vegetation is so dense that you don’t get much of a water view. Also, you’ll find oak trees framing the fairways which adds to the course’s setting.

The way the course was originally designed featured a few more holes close to the lake. As best I can tell the current 4th hole was the old 8th and the missing four hole stretch has been closed for waterfront condos to be built. So, the course now makes a quick loop back to the clubhouse early in the round.

The 6th hole is last hole close to the clubhouse before you play the remainder of the round away from it. The back nine features the newer four holes (the 14th through the 17th) to replace the holes lost on the front nine. The 14th and 17th run parallel to each other and didn’t seem to fit in with the rest of the design.

The 14th and 17th play across some severe terrain and require forced carries, precise positioning and a bit of luck! I won’t knock the holes too much besides saying they are awkward and a bit frustrating to play. The 14th is surrounded by trouble and has a really weird layup to a hidden shelf of fairway. It has a crazy-looking downhill tee shot, though. The 15th and 16th are better and seem to fit nicely with the original design.

As a whole, I found Chickasaw Pointe to be very tough. We played the back tees (the blues) which are 72.1/132/6310. The high slope comes from the property’s undulating terrain and mostly tree-lined holes.

I mentioned the 6th hole earlier and that is the course’s signature hole! The 6th is a 330 yard par-4 that plays significantly downhill, at least for this part of the country! The hole has nice views of the lake and allows you a couple different ways to play it.

The conditions at Chickasaw Pointe were acceptable. I wouldn’t say things were excellent as there were sections of the course that seemed to struggle. However, for the most part I had good lies in the fairways and the greens looked great. The tees were good while many bunkers were washed out and rocky. The conditions don’t match the $70 rack rate in my opinion, but for the $50 twilight rate it was just fine.

My friend ended up getting to golf in his 31st state by playing here, so the day was special for that reason! However, Chickasaw Pointe has plenty of quirk and there might be too much target golf involved for some. If you are in the area visiting or fishing then a round here wouldn’t be a bad idea, however Chickasaw Pointe did not have that top public vibe to it, as I hoped.

Course Pictures (click any picture to scroll through the gallery):