Lost Pines Golf Club (formerly Wolfdancer)

Ridgetop tees, river holes and a short hop from Austin.

Lost Pines Golf Club is the course many golfers still know as Wolfdancer, the Arthur Hills design at the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort & Spa, now marketed as Lost Pines Resort. It sits on 405 acres beside the Colorado River at Cedar Creek, next to Bastrop State Park, 23 miles east of downtown Austin and just 13 miles from Austin-Bergstrom airport. Unlike the stay-to-play resorts of the Texas Hill Country, it sells tee times to anyone through its online booking engine. That makes it the easiest of the region’s resort courses to fit into a trip, including an arrival or departure day.

Lost Pines Golf Club (formerly Wolfdancer) green fees and tee times.

Tee times are sold through the club’s TeeItUp booking page, linked from the resort’s golf page, at an online rate that includes a cart. Most online times are for two to four players, with the odd single slot. On 10 November 2026 dates were open about two and a half weeks ahead, and prices moved with the day and time: weekday mornings around US$159, Saturday mornings US$209 to US$239, and lower afternoon and twilight rates. Thanksgiving Day was priced like a Saturday. Resort guests and members also have access, and the resort’s liaison team can arrange rounds with a stay. Groups and tournaments go through the enquiry form on the golf page, where the PGA professionals can run a hosted event.

The round, in perspective.

Hills laid the course out for the resort, which welcomed its first guests in 2006, and the club now lists it at 7,300 yards, par 72. The ground is rolling and in places steep, running from ridges down to the Colorado, which skirts the eastern side of the property. The resort picks out the 603-yard par-five 3rd, which Top 100 Golf Courses notes sits on a ridgetop with long views. That site’s description, which may predate the 2022 work, also highlights the 233-yard semi-blind 4th, the 337-yard 7th, fronted by a ravine, and the 483-yard 8th, with an angled green benched into a hillside. The resort also names the 155-yard downhill 12th, a par three whose green sits on a steep hillside. In 2022 the resort announced that the original design firm, Hills Forrest Smith, would build four new holes to replace the old closing stretch. The course has featured in rankings by Golfweek and The Dallas Morning News.

Know before you go.

Booking

Public online tee times via TeeItUp

Group size

Online times for 2 to 4 players

Cart

Included in the online rate

Practice

13-acre range with eight target greens

Lessons

Group, corporate and one-to-one

Make the trip work.

The drop in price after midday is steep, so a mid-afternoon weekday tee time cost about two-thirds of the morning rate when checked. Warm up on the 13-acre range, which has eight target greens and raised hitting stations fitted with FLAGD Golf technology. Nick Holditch, the resident instructor, takes group and individual lessons. If you are flying out of AUS the same day, the 20-minute drive to the terminal makes a morning round followed by an afternoon departure realistic.

Austin-Bergstrom (AUS) is 13 miles away, about 20 minutes by car, which is unusually close for a resort course. Downtown Austin is 23 miles west on Highway 71, a drive of 30 to 40 minutes. Overnight guests pay US$45 a day for valet or US$25 to self-park; visitor self-parking is free for the first hour.

Where it is.

Somewhere to settle in.

The resort has rooms, suites and Litton House, a separate house for larger parties. Dining runs from Stories Ranch Kitchen and Maverick’s Roadhouse to Maude’s Bar and Terrace and a 10-seat Sushi by Scratch omakase counter. Families come for the Crooked River Water Park, with its lazy river and water slide, which helps when only some of the party play golf. Check-in is from 4pm, and luggage can be stored if you arrive early to play. The town of Bastrop, further east, and Austin both have cheaper hotels if you only want the round.

Make a trip of it.

Horseshoe Bay Resort, about 50 miles west of Austin on Lake LBJ, adds three Robert Trent Jones Sr. courses for overnight guests, and TPC San Antonio, about an hour south of Austin, is open to guests of the JW Marriott there. Those two need a stay; Lost Pines does not, so it fits at either end of the trip. Off the course, Bastrop State Park borders the resort, with trails through the loblolly pine forest that gives the area its name.

Find your season.

October to May is the comfortable stretch for golf east of Austin; from June to September, book the first tee times of the day. Prices follow demand rather than a printed season, so in 2026 Thanksgiving Day and the weekend after it, 26 to 29 November, carried weekend-level rates of US$209 to US$219 in the morning.