This sprawling Texas resort boasts a million-dollar hole (and exceptional ‘bonus’ golf)

bout 55 miles west of downtown Austin, in the rolling Texas Hill Country, sits Horseshoe Bay Resort, a sprawling property where the most unique golf course in its vast portfolio might be the one where you only use your putter.

There’s one so challenging that everyone on-site — the shuttle drivers, the waitresses, even the girl on the beverage cart — will warn you of its difficulty. There’s another that boasts a “Million Dollar Hole” with a 35-foot waterfall and yet one more where the views of Lake LBJ go on forever like some postcard you find at a truck stop. (And that’s not even including the members-only one, which is technically off-limits to resort guests but still fun to fawn over.)