Texana Golf
Lake Texana (also known as Palmetto Bend) is located seven miles east of Edna in Jackson County, on the Navidad River, a major tributary to the Lavaca River. Lake Texana is named after the ghost town of Texana which the lake submerged. The lake and dam are managed by the Lavaca–Navidad River Authority for water supply and recreational purposes. United States Congress authorized the Palmetto Bend Reclamation Project in 1968.
Texana Golf is near Texas metropolitan areas, located approximately 70 miles southwest of Houston and 95 miles southeast of San Antonio, a little over an hour drive from the perimeter of each city.
The development plan envisions a destination-scale property focused on its two golf courses, clubhouse, practice grounds, and limited lodging amenities. Potential routing options look to maximize shoreline golf interaction while preserving extensive woodland, wetland, and floodplain buffers consistent with the reservoir’s environmental setting. New golf design with expansive lakefront holes is rare.
West Course (approximately 190 acres)
The West Course will occupy the central and eastern shoreline of Lake Texana and is routed across a series of peninsulas and lake inlets. The map appears to have potential for continuous water adjacency, long reservoir views, and strong natural integration with coves and wetland corridors.
The West Course design will be led by Tripp Davis and Associates. Tripp Davis carries a championship golf pedigree as an NCAA All-American and member of the University of Oklahoma’s 1989 national championship team. the firm brings more than 30 years of golf course architecture experience and a portfolio that includes new course designs as well as extensive renovation/restoration work at historic clubs including Augusta Country Club, Gasparilla Inn, Northwood, Oak Hills Country Club, Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club, Ridgewood-Country-Club in Waco, Wichita Country Club.
Notable work in new golf course design is highlighted at The Rose in Georgia and restoration of past Ryder Cup site Thunderbird Country Club. The Rose has the potential to host future NCAA college golf national championships with the University of Georgia as host.
East Course (approximately 190 acres)
The East Course will be located on the south part of the site on two distinct parcels on the lake with the potential to balance shoreline golf with inland holes framed by native vegetation. Routing choices emerging from topographic maps to landscape clearance will expose the choices for fairway corridor width to capture substantial lake frontage and views.
The East Course will be designed by Jackson Kahn Design led by Tim Jackson and David Kahn. Founded in 2009, the firm’s principals educational background in Agronomy and Landscape Architecture, coupled with more than $600 million in completed project experience on prominent new golf course design gives this team experience building across a wide range of environments and construction scopes.
Jackson Kahn Design has contributed to projects as both contracted golf architect and lead design associates including Monterey Peninsula Country Club (Dunes Course) in California, Wayzata Country Club in Minnesota, Conway Farms in Illinois, and Scottsdale National, the Grass Clippings Rolling Hills short course in Arizona, and anticipated new course at Kettle Forge in Wisconsin. Additionally, Jackson Kahn designed an estate course in Louisiana in 2022-2023.
Golf Course Construction
Golf course construction will be led by Wolf Point Golf Co., a golf construction company led by Don Mahaffey and Ryan Mahaffey. The team is noted for its experience on the Memorial Park renovation in Houston with Tom Doak and Mike Nuzzo and for Mahaffey’s construction lead role building nearby Wolf Point with golf architect Mike Nuzzo. Mahaffey worked with Tripp Davis previously at Braeburn Country Club in Houston in 2022 and San Angelo Country Club in 2025.
Siteplan
Clubhouse, Practice, and Lodging
A centrally located Clubhouse and Practice Area (approximately 17.1 acres) serves both courses efficiently, while a small cabins and lodging area is positioned on higher ground to the northwest separated from core golf.
Rivers Barden Architects is a Houston-based architectural firm specializing in site-responsive design that thoughtfully integrates buildings with landscape, climate, and regional context.
Principals Kevin Barden and Joe Rivers are both alumni of The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Their experience designing golf clubhouses like The Tree Farm working in warm Southern climates makes them ideally suited to create a landscape design that embraces Texana Golf lakeside setting.
Future Hole on Shoreline
Lake Point
