Lakeside Golf Club

Canyon Lake sits in the Texas Hill Country about 50 miles north of San Antonio, where the Guadalupe River was dammed in the early 1960s to create one of the region's most popular recreational lakes. It's a landscape of limestone bluffs, cedar scrub, and rolling terrain — the kind of rugged, sun-baked topography that gives Hill Country golf its distinctive character and demands course management over raw power.

Lakeside Golf Club occupies this setting as the area's primary full-length golf destination, serving a community that blends retirees, lake-house owners, and weekend visitors drawn by the water. A par-72 layout in this terrain typically means elevation changes that don't show up in the yardage, with hill-side lies and wind off the lake adding variables that a scorecard can't capture.

Canyon Lake itself is a laid-back, unpretentious place — far from the resort corridors of the Hill Country's better-known golf towns. Lakeside reflects that spirit: a course where locals genuinely play, and where the surroundings do at least as much work as the design.