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Located on scenic Lake Ray Hubbard, the Heath Golf and Yacht Club is a master-planned waterfront resort community which includes a championship golf course, beautiful Clubhouse with dining, resort pool, tennis courts and fitness center overlooking the lake. Enjoy this lifestyle with miles of walking trails throughout the community.

Set near the beautiful golf course, The Golf Villas are within walking distance of the Lakefront Clubhouse and offer low-maintenance resort-style living. These one and two- story luxury townhome villas range in size from 2,000 to 2,200 square feet of living space with two car garages.

The 2-story townhomes will be completed by early July with one-story villas completed in September.

Prices start at $595,000.

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CastleRock Communities invites you to Heath Golf & Yacht Club where youll find extraordinary luxury living on the tranquil shores of Lake Ray Hubbard. This resort-style, master-planned community located in Heath, Texas provides peaceful country living with all the convenience of nearby shopping and entertainment. Proximity to I-30 and Hwy 80 makes commuting a breeze. Children will attend schools i...

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CastleRock Communities invites you to Heath Golf & Yacht Club where you’ll find extraordinary luxury living on the tranquil shores of Lake Ray Hubbard. This resort-style, master-planned community located in Heath, Texas provides peaceful country living with all the convenience of nearby shopping and entertainment. Proximity to I-30 and Hwy 80 makes commuting a breeze. Children will attend schools in the highly acclaimed Rockwall ISD. Within the community, you will enjoy amenities found at the finest resorts all for the exclusive use of residents. The clubhouse features the beautiful Sunset Cove restaurant and bar overlooking the resort-style pool, Lake Ray Hubbard and a community boat dock. A regulation sand volleyball court, five tennis courts, and eight pickleball courts offer residents of all ages plenty of exercise. The state-of-the-art fitness center also caters to those on-the-go wanting to stay in shape. Heath Golf & Yacht Club is an exclusive 800-acre community encompassed by walking trails and green belts as well as a private golf club with an 18-hole championship golf course featuring a Links-style design, plans for a 9-hole expansion and future country club. CastleRock Communities offers a variety of new homes featuring luxuriant and distinctive touches suited to any lifestyle. Let CastleRock build your dream home in this highly sought-after community.

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Time will tell if this track develops up to its potential. The course is a great layout and is tough! We were literally the only foursome on the course as they have not sold many homes out there yet. Hoping this place takes off as we need more good courses out by Lake Ray Hubbard.

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Welcome to the Heath Country Club Championship Golf Course

An exclusive haven for golf enthusiasts designed by the renowned architect, Roy Bechtol. Our 18-hole championship golf course is a testament to meticulous craftsmanship and a passion for the sport.

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Roy Bechtol, a distinguished architect with a legacy of creating exceptional golf courses, has crafted an extraordinary masterpiece at HCC. Every hole is strategically designed to challenge players of all skill levels while showcasing the natural beauty of the landscape.

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HCC Golf Course is a private sanctuary, accessible only to our members and their guests. This exclusivity ensures an intimate and tranquil environment for our members to enjoy the game at their own pace.

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Our commitment to excellence extends to the course conditions. Zoysia tees provide a lush and comfortable starting point for your game, while Bermuda 419 fairways offer a perfect playing surface. Navigate through the course with confidence, knowing that our white sand bunkers add both beauty and challenge to your golfing experience.

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Heath Golf & Yacht Club offers single-family homes on large lots in Heath, TX located near Lake Ray Hubbard with onsite boat slips. Residents attend Rockwall ISD and enjoy an onsite elementary school.

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The included Powerwall battery provides 24/7 energy security by storing the energy produced with your solar roof, so you can even power your home during an outage. You can choose to install multiple Powerwalls to increase your energy supply. Additionally, the Powerwall communicates with the National Weather Service to detect inclement weather and proactively store energy. And with the Tesla app, you can monitor your energy independence, outage protection, and savings in real time.

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Great food, great people! The views are great and the gym is top notch. Outdoor fire pit for families.

Service and atmosphere is phenomenal. We love being members! It's our favorite spot for Sunday brunch and dinner/drinks after work. The staff is always friendly and really make the visit worthwhile. Having drinks and snacks delivered poolside is a great amenity which we appreciate. The touchdown driver, steak, summer salad and fish & chips are our favorites!

zero stars!!! stay away at all costs!!! you have to buy a gehan home to be admitted to their "clubhouse" (which is really just a free gym and restaurant you have to pay good money for), for which you pay more than $5,000 in fees (but they don't tell you this -- nor is it detailed in the contract you get; you only find out about this inconvenient and expensive scam if you ask the saleswoman what the "fees" are that are mentioned in the contract but not spelled out; she'd lied and told me the clubhouse is "free" to gehan homeowners -- yeah for $5,000 the first year alone, and a $25,000 extra add-on expense charged all homeowners in this development!!!) (OH -- AND BTW: YOU CANNOT USE THEIR GOLF CLUB, EVEN AFTER PAYING ALL THESE FEES, UNLESS YOU PAY AN EXTRA $20,000 TO JOIN!!!) the saleswoman then scammed me out of $6,500 just to see the contract, which was full of deception and revealed the many lies she told (including that the clubhouse was not free as she claimed)...so i declined to buy...they never returned my deposit...they applied it to another house but that is another story...which begins with her asking me an illegal question, out of the blue: "are you jewish?" she asked. that's against federal laws on housing discrimination. "no," i told her, "i'm a christian" (and i write christian rock songs). she didn't buy it; she said i used a lot of "jewish words" like "kaibosh". she then became frosty. the money -- with great difficulty -- transferred to another gehan house in another neighborhood, the bigotry indicated by her question then revealed itself in a turndown by the mortgage company gehan forces you to use (i am a millionaire and should never be turned down for a $338,000 house, which is cheaper than the one i'm selling to zillow for $582,000.)...their mortgage company fraudulently turned me down on the lie that i didn't provide them documents they requested; in truth, the hateful lender, david burrows, never even started a legal, just or fair mortgage application process. i now have to hire an attorney to retrieve the combined $10,000 gehan scammed me out of, and i intend on pressing criminal charges as well, for they refuse to answer my emails or phone calls or provide me with the house they are contractually obligated to sell me but are refusing to do so. stay away from these scammers and bigots at all costs!!!

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Some 50 years ago, long before he worked for the likes of Curtis Strange , Greg Norman and Payne Stewart , Mike Hicks landed his first job as a caddie, carrying for a local pastor at his hometown club in North Carolina. Hicks was 12. His pay was $5 per loop.

In those days, caddying barely counted as a viable career. With rare exceptions, it was looked at as a stopgap for those lacking better options, or a summer gig for the Danny Noonans of the world. Hicks didn’t see it as a way to make a living.

“I never even entertained the idea,” he says. 

In 1980, though, as an undergraduate at North Carolina State, Hicks was considering taking a semester off when a friend who caddied for the Tour pro J.C. Snead encouraged him to join him in California and tag along on the West Coast swing.

“He said, ‘You can work the pro-ams, and some Monday qualifiers. You’ll get by,’” Hicks says. 

Hicks left home with $140 and returned eight weeks later having had a blast and doubled his money. He was 19. There was no looking back.

For Hicks, it was the start of a decades-long run as a respected Tour looper (an image of Hicks leaping into Stewart’s arms after his boss clinched the ’99 U.S. Open is part of the game’s iconography). He is 63 now, recently retired from the circuit. And the trade he practiced has been fully transformed.

Caddying these days does more than pay the bills. At high-end clubs and resorts, loopers routinely earn six-figure incomes. Caddies for top Tour pros are multimillionaires. The job has been professionalized. What’s often missing, though, is formalized professional training.

That’s something Hicks is trying to change.

A founding member of the Tour Caddie Collective, a network devoted to developing the next generation of caddies, Hicks has teamed up with his fellow Tour loopers Grant Berry and Heath Holt to launch the Professional Caddie Certification Program. Operated in conjunction with North Carolina State University’s Office of Professional Development, the program aims to offer 18 participants seven days and one night of intensive instruction covering every aspect of the job. The inaugural session starts Dec. 1.

“We’re going to be getting into all the nuances,” Hicks says.

In the cliche construction, caddying has three basic requirements: Show up, keep up and shut up.

That no longer applies.

For starters, Hicks says, “It’s the opposite of ‘shut up.” At elite levels, anyway, most players expect open communication, a point underscored every time the TV networks eavesdrop on Michael Greller and Jordan Spieth . From one partnership to another, and from one shot to the next, a caddie’s role can morph from sidekick to psychologist to bodyguard, and beyond. Quantitative skills are increasingly essential. So is emotional intelligence. 

“A player-caddie relationship is like a marriage,” Hicks says. “But you also have to be a mathematician. You’re not just adding and subtracting. You’re dealing with percentages. You’re analyzing stats and using live data to help guys with course management.”

To help participants prepare for those wide-ranging demands, Hicks says the program will be taught by an array of instructors, including a sports psychologist, a physiotherapist, a PGA Tour official and experts in such technology as Trackman, Aimpoint and GC Quad.

There will even be a class in CPR.

“You tell me how many caddies out there know CPR,” Hicks says. “Hardly any, I’ll tell you that.”

Even as they care for their players, Hicks says, caddies need to learn to care for themselves.

“Stretching is a vital part of caddying,” Hicks says. “You need to eat well, and get proper rest.”

On those fronts, Hicks concedes, he fell short in his career. 

“It’s pretty much a miracle that I’m still here,” he says. 

But time is a great teacher, and he now has a chance to share what he’s learned with others. Though the plan is to make the program regularly recurring, a long-term schedule hasn’t yet been set. A second session is tentatively slated for February. But December’s inaugural session, Hicks says, is “a pilot” that he expects will evolve over time. The cost is $4,000 per participant. 

“We want to get it going,” he says. “And we’ll see where it leads.”

For more information,  go.ncsu.edu/golf-caddie-cert  or contact [email protected] .

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