Tiger,
The TX Wilderness had the name first, the very first course that was ever named something I suggested. Actually, the second, as I called the then unnamed second course at Giants Ridge the "Quarry Course" at a press conference, and it kind of stuck, despite the owers objections.
The course was going to be put in half of Wilderness Park in Lake Jackson and they had a contest to name it and most of them were the Gus T. Jones course, etc. I casually mentioned that the Wilderness was a cool sounding name and they called of the contest. However, that was in year five of the lawsuits since I had been involved, and I was pretty sure it was never going to go.
Subsequently, while up at Fortune Bay and standing at a urinal, I noticed their slogan "We put the Wild in Wilderness" adn told them it would be a good course name, since it was unlikely to be used in Texas. They picked it.
Two days later, the environmental lawsuits were settled and construction started almost simultaneously on both courses, or as I call them, the Wildernii. Had they actually turned out to be tough courses, maybe they would have been the Wildebeasts, eh?
I love the northern version. The land on the southern version is pretty flat, as is all Houston land, so it needed a bit more work. I was probably overly influenced by gca. com with a Dell, Biaritz and other classic type greens. I need to get down there and do the Wilderness/Wolf Point double. Not now, in this stretch of 100 plus heat. With Houston humidity, it would be a scorcher.
BTW, during construction, the course got near direct hits from 3 hurricanes. We got 102 of Houston's annual 90 inches of rain in the first few months of construction!