Landa Park Golf Course Celebrates a Decade of Sustained Excellence.

There has always been an appeal to the area on the Comal River that became first Gruene and later New Braunfels. Cool water to mitigate the Texas heat and irrigate crops — and later golf courses — has an enduring draw, and that’s even more in evidence today. For the past 10 years, golfers have been especially enticed to New Braunfels and the uber-playable Landa Park Golf Course at Comal Springs on the banks of the river. The resurgence of golf in the area was spurred by the comprehensive renovation of the city’s municipal course and was later amplified by the restrictions of the COVID-19 epidemic.

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Ten years after comprehensive renovation, New Braunfels facility continues to set records for play as it wows golfers!

In the five years since the shutdown, the level of excellence at Landa Park Golf Course was stoked by city leaders and Landa Park Golf Course’s staff who grasped the need for top-drawer customer service and unwavering golf course conditions. In October, Landa Park celebrated 10 years since its reopening — its rebirth, as it were — and there is plenty to be excited about. “We take great pride in the continued level of success we enjoy at Landa Park Golf Course,” said Quintin Alexander, the facility’s golf manager. “The City had the foresight to invest in the renovation of the course some 10 years ago and has done all it can to make sure we have all we need to provide the best golf experience for our players.”

“We take great ownership in what we do here and consider the popularity of Landa Park Golf Course a labor of love for all of us.” The course at Landa Park originally opened as a nine-hole facility in 1938 with a second nine designed by architects Dave Bennett and Leon Howard added in 1969. That configuration was in place for more than 45 years and was worse for the wear before a renovation and full master plan for the site was fashioned by the noted Houston based golf architecture firm Finger Dye Spann and the $7 million project was bankrolled by the City. Houston-based contractor Heritage Links instituted the architects’ plan, which rerouted some of the holes, built new tees and putting surfaces, recontoured the fairways, added bunkers,  improved or replaced cart paths, and installed a new irrigation system. The design also employed the judicious use of native grasses in “out of play” areas as a nod to ecology and the sensitivity of the course in proximity to the river. There are a handful of bio swell areas that act to clean the waters that can run off the course before they end up in the Comal.

Landa Park Golf Course was reopened in October 2014 and has been on consistent footing ever since, first under the watchful eye of Chad Donegan and, since 2022, with Alexander at the helm. One of the often taken-for-granted constants at Landa Park Golf Course is the track’s peerless conditioning. From tee to green the playing surfaces are manicured where required, left native when desired and reflect the best of golf at a course on the edge of the Texas Hill Country. For that, golfers can thank superintendent Brody Dillard and his crew, who hit the ground running at 4 a.m. each morning and are busy throughout the course an hour later. “There’s not a morning I get here when there’s not someone working on virtually every hole,” Alexander explained. “It’s not something that players really think about, but the work that crew does day in and day out directly relates to their golf experience.”

There are spots here where golfers can watch tubers riding the rapids; on the back nine, you’ll hear a lot of whooping and hollering at nearby Schlitterbahn. Part of the experience at Landa Park Golf Course is the fauna (ducks, egrets, and more) and all of the deer grazing in the rough and lying in the shade. Although greens “Our staff has done a consistent job      fee were increased of keeping the course in great condition last June for the first time since 2018 despite challenges of the weather and it still costs less than $60 to play Landa Park Golf Course, even with a cart. And there are discounts for seniors, juniors and military members and veterans and also twilight rates.

In 2025, with the game of golf riding an all-time high in popularity, Landa Park Golf Course is a vibrant and pertinent course that’s both an asset to the New Braunfels golf community and the City as a whole.

If you’ve played Landa Park Golf Course, you know. If you haven’t, what are you waiting for?

the day-to-day wear and tear any course endures from the amount of play we have.”

Landa Park Golf Course has a unique routing near the banks of the Comal River, playing at 6,205 yards from its back tees and to a par of 71. The course will not beat up golfers who are just learning the game, but there’s more than enough length and challenge to keep even the best players’ attention.

“Our staff has done a consistent job of keeping the course in great condition despite challenges of the weather and the day-to-day wear and tear any course endures from the amount of play we have.” Landa Park Golf Course has a unique routing near the banks of the Comal River, playing at 6,205 yards from its back tees and to a par of 71. The course will not beat up golfers who are just learning the game, but there’s more than enough length and challenge to keep even the best players’ attention. There are spots here where golfers can watch tubers riding the rapids; on the back nine, you’ll hear a lot of whooping and hollering at nearby Schlitterbahn. Part of the experience at Landa Park Golf Course is the fauna (ducks, egrets, and more) and all of the deer grazing in the rough and lying in the shade.

Although greens fee were increased last June for the first time since 2018 it still costs less than $60 to play Landa Park Golf Course, even with a cart. And there are discounts for seniors, juniors and military members and veterans and also twilight rates.

In 2025, with the game of golf riding an all-time high in popularity, Landa Park Golf Course is a vibrant and pertinent course that’s both an asset to the New Braunfels golf community and the City as a whole.\

If you’ve played Landa Park Golf Course, you know. If you haven’t, what are you waiting for?

By Steve Habel, Contributing Writer