2 El Paso Golf Courses Make Texas Monthly Best Of List

If you enjoy golfing or just like to hit a few at the driving range, you have several options in and around El Paso. Two of the courses in El Paso got Texas Monthly's attention.

El Paso has several golf courses, including Ascarate, the El Paso Country Club, the Underwood Golf Complex and the Coronado Country Club among others.

Around El Paso, there are also courses in Horizon, Las Cruces, Anthony and elsewhere.

Texas Monthly just released their list of the top golf, (not that Top Golf, this list is for the real deal), courses in Texas and El Paso got two spots.

See the rest here.

Quick "Top Golf" side note, Def Leppard were just there having some fun before their concert with Alice Cooper and Motley Crue.

One of Texas Monthly's faves was Butterfield Trail on the east side.

Well, what I now consider to be "central" El Paso as the "far" east side continues to grow exponentially.

Not so long ago, it was untamed desert.

Now it's a really cool golf course with an awesome clubhouse/bar and tasty food.

Yeah, that's how I golf ... in the bar ... with a beer ... and some wings.

The other course, I actually know pretty well as, for several years, it was home to the KLAQ Golf Tournament.

I never played in it but I went to most of them to handle contests and prize giveaways. My bosses played, I drank and we all got paid to do it. Pretty cool gig.

I was supposed to oversee the "shotgun start" one year but I passed because they wouldn't let me use a real shotgun. Party poopers.

Painted Dunes is a beautiful course with an amazing view of the mountains.

There's also an entire, new community being developed around it.

Construction has just started but, so far, looks like it's going to be pretty sweet.