River Ridge Golf Club, Closed 2017

River Ridge Golf Club is a 27 hole public golf facility located in Sealy, Texas. The facility has three 9-hole golf courses. They are The River Course, The Ridge Course, and The Parkland Course. These three courses can be paired to form three different 18-hole combinations.

The courses at River Ridge Golf Club opened for play in 1998. They were designed by Jay Riviere.

The course is a classic, traditional, pure-golf venue just 35 minutes west of Houston's 610 Loop at I-10 on the scenic Brazos River.

Three distinct 9-hole courses, each with its own personality, provide the feel of Old World courses built a century ago in the Eastern United States and the British Isles. Jay Riviere's inspiration for this parkland-style course came from playing Winged Foot, Quaker Ridge, Oak Hill, Glen Eagles, and Turnberry.

Each 9-hole layout is built on over 120 acres, substantially larger than modern-day nines. The result is a grand scale with large forest floors and more than thirty-five acres of lakes and creeks separating fairways and greens. The nine fieldstone bridges over the creeks complete the Old World personality.

The course closed November 2017.

The Brazos River was both the courses asset and curse. The course sits in a floodplain and major floods have plagued the course the past several years.  Hurricane Harvey was the final blow for the 27-hole course, convincing the owners that it was time to admit that it was too costly to try and compete against mother nature.