Legacy Hills - Sun City Golf Club (Georgetown, TX)

Sun City is a Del Webb developed retirement community with three golf courses serving over 15,000 residents. Golf carts zip down the road, golf bags attached to them, as retirees live life without a care in the world. 
(Texans love their flag even on the practice putting green.) 

Legacy Hills was designed by Billy Casper and Greg Nash. In fact, it’s one of a dozen courses they did for Del Webb who has communities in California, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas. Del Webb markets itself as the premier residential community for folks 55 and older. This tidbit gives one an idea about what to expect. 

(The 562/549 yard seventh is a nice dogleg left par five. Plenty of grass leading into the green yet this bunker gets a lot of play. Note how it extends a good forty yards from the green.) 

Legacy Hills is the longest course at Sun City. It plays in a parkland setting with rolling hills, and only a few times does water come into play. Nash hangs his hat on designing fun, fair, beautiful courses that blend into their surroundings. Legacy checks all those boxes. 
(This beautiful creek plays down the left side of 357/331 yard ninth. It’s a very wide fairway which shouldn’t be missed. It’s a good birdie opportunity.) 

At Legacy Hills, what the player sees is what he gets. There are no surprises here. When the goal is to design fun, fair golf courses then most of the uneasiness that a good course will instill on the player goes away. The golf becomes how good is your ability to hit the ball. Bottom line..Legacy Hills needs to be enjoyable for all the retirees who have chosen Sun City. It’s not good or bad, just a business model that is very successful. 

(The most interesting hole on the course is the 425/397 yard fifteenth. A tree is growing out of the creek bed in the valley. It’s canopy blocks out the view of the green so players must hit it down the left or right side to avoid a blind approach shot.) 

(The seventeenth is a 415/405 yard par four. It’s a straightforward tee shot...
...but a pair of trees short right and left penalizes tee shots coming out of the rough.) 

I had a very enjoyable round at Legacy Hills. My one playing partner was 88 yrs and after a 42 on the front nine, all of us were rooting for him to finish strong on the back and beat his age. I guess Greg Nash would most certainly approve. The course is nearly forty years old, and still popular as ever. I give Legacy Hills a 4 (above average)(worth driving 30-45 mins to play). Alas my playing partner couldn’t keep his energy level up and came home in 50 strokes. But he’ll be back at it the next day. 

(The uphill par five eighteenth is only 520/495 yards. The green is offset from the fairway but regulars know that a lot of fairway lies short of the green. It’s an excellent chance to steal one back!)