Michael Keiser Jr. says he isn’t bent on building remote golf courses. Like his father, Mike Keiser, the developer of Bandon Dunes, he goes wherever the best land takes him. Often, that means going off the beaten path.

His latest stop sits two and a half hours from both Dallas and Houston, in the countryside of East Texas, where Wild Spring Dunes is taking shape. Of two planned 18-holers, one has just opened to public play — a Tom Doak design stitched through a tapestry of forests and meadows, its rumpled features lined with spring-fed creeks.

The par-4 1st hole plunges to the fairway from a rise known as Mount Baldy, which the routing touches…

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