Certificate entitling you and three guests to a round of golf at Stonebriar Country Club's Fazio Course, the 18-hole championship golf course designed by Tom Fazio. Here you'll find dramatic landforms, subtly contoured greens, native grass order areas and masterful bunkering in a landscaped environment seems to have evolved over time. Fazio's design improves on nature to create a golf experience free of the usual contraction. Full of special touches, Stonebriar makes it clear why Fazio-designer of Pinehurst #8, Shadow Creek, The Quarry at La Quinta and other unique creations-is America's number-one golf course designer.

On this once-barren, extremely flat farmland that served primarily as a hayfield lies the still reasonably flat Fazio track (although he moved over 600,000 yards of earth during construction) that is famous for its lightning-fast, Augusta-like putting surfaces. Made up of the new heat-resistant A-4 bentgrass that was installed recently at Fort Worth’s Colonial Country Club, these babies are certain three-jacks if you fail to pay attention to the pin placements with your approach.

The greens are the signature at the Stonebriar, since Fazio’s layout is surprisingly hacker-friendly, mostly void of forced carries with fairways framed by mounds that seem to push the ball back into the fairway. The mounding also has a pleasing aesthetic purpose, making it impossible to see the neighboring fairways and greens.

The best hole on the front is No. 2, a 407-yard doglegger that tees uphill over a wetland and involves an approach over a creek into a bunker-guarded green.

On the back Fazio dropped in a 5-acre lake that comes into play on Nos. 11 and 14, both 400-yard-plus par 4s. Bunkers line the fairway on No. 11, and the hole doglegs right against the wind. Besides the lake on No. 14, the deep, multi-level green is the problem most likely to drive your score up.