Looking at joining a club in the Houston area ..suggestions would be very helpful?

As they say, Houston is an hour away from Houston. I can give you more targeted recommendations if you let me know which part of town you are in.

We are considering joining South Shore Harbor / Magnolia Creek Country Club, Southeast side of Houston.

I can’t tell you much as we are just looking into this ourselves. Our main criteria is location as it is the closest to home.

I look forward to hopefully hearing responses and would love any insight that comes up regarding South Shore / Magnolia Creek.

I've been a member of Magnolia Creek for almost 10 years now. Nice that it has 27 holes, great practice area for greenside chipping, huge putting green for putting and another practice area for like 70 yards and in. Not to mention the huge range that they can use either side on. The course itself is always in great shape with the greens being some of the best around. Basically can't go wrong here unless you specifically don't like links golf. Very windy in March and April as well.. They are owned by Club Corp so there are a lot of options on membership.

South Shore is another story. The course isn't ever in near as good as shape as Mag Creek. It's closed on Monday, stays pretty wet in the winter months and most people i know that play there from time to time say the members aren't that friendly. It is included for play with the membership to Club Corp so you can check it out yourself of you decide to go that way.

Are you from here or moving here? And if you already live here have you played Mag or South Shore before.

I'm at Raveneaux north of town but it's closing town to become a huge flood plain

Damm, seems like I remember reading that somewhere. Didn't know they were shutting it down permanently. Thought it was going to be an as needed retention basin.

If you're north of town, have you tried the Club at Carlton Woods?

I will second basically everything SEP1006 said. I haven't had any issues with the people at south shore being friendly but it just isn't as nice of a facility. Mag creek is better in every way, the only advantage south shore has is that it can be slightly less crowded.

Wow! I wonder how much the county is gonna pay for the rest of the golf course. Very interesting to watch such a mass of humanity combat what seems to be the worst flood zone/climate in the country.

Why not just go next door to Champions?

I was a member of Falcon Point but have been playing multiple places and not playing there very much anymore. Looking to join Walden on Lake Conroe this weekend though. Have a special that's hard to pass up.

Definitely an option, although my handicap is teetering on their cutoff. I live near downtown so it's been a bit of a hike to get out there.

what do you think the cutoff is? My understanding is they have been pretty flexible with handicaps recently.