Around Austin & San Antonio
San Antonio and Austin are only about an hour's drive from one another. Austin, the Live Music Capital of the World, is home to numerous top-quality golf courses. San Antonio boasts more than 50 golf courses giving golfers a wide range of experiences, from the TPC courses at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa to the Brackenridge Park public course, which opened nearly 100 years ago. According to USGA National Course Rating Database, TPC San Antonio (Oaks) is the toughest course in the San Antonio area.
Private club
Austin
Layout at current location by husband/wife team of Pete & Alice Dye (1984).
Private club
Austin
Visitors welcome
San Antonio
Rsrt guests only
Austin
Tom Fazio
Rsrt guests only
Austin
Bill Coore & Ben Crenshaw
Rsrt guests only
Austin
Original design by Tom Fazio, as well as subsequent upgrade in 2004.
Rsrt guests only
Austin
Arnold Palmer
Visitors welcome
San Antonio
A.W. Tillinghast
Visitors welcome
San Antonio
Tom Walker
Visitors welcome
San Antonio
Oaks-nine: Arthur Hills (1993).
Creeks & Lakes-nines: Arthur Hills (2005).
Rsrt guests only
Austin
Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Rsrt guests only
Austin
Rsrt guests only
Austin
Visitors welcome
San Antonio
Arnold Palmer
Visitors welcome
San Antonio
Tom Weiskopf & Jay Morrish
Private club
San Antonio
A.W. Tillinghast
Visitors welcome
San Antonio
Keith Foster
Visitors welcome
San Antonio
Larry Hawkins
Visitors welcome
San Antonio
Visitors welcome
San Antonio
Roy Bechtol, Randy Russell & Lee Trevino
Rsrt guests only
San Antonio
Pete Dye in consultation with tour professional Bruce Lietzke.
Rsrt guests only
San Antonio
Greg Norman in consultation with tour professional Sergio Garcia.
Visitors welcome
Austin
Arthur Hills & Steve Forrest
Tournaments:
European Tour: 2021 marks the 50th and last season of the world renowned European Tour, launched in April 1972 at the Spanish Open. From 2022 the Tour will be sponsored by Dubai-based global supply chain and ports operator DP World, and will be known as the DP World Tour.
South African Open: December 2021 events in South Africa have again been impacted by the Covid pandemic. The South African Open (Dec 2-5) will no longer be played as a DP World Tour event, and the Alfred Dunhill Championship (Dec 9-12) has been cancelled.
Who's Who:
Bernhard Langer: at age 64, Langer collected a record sixth Charles Schwab Cup, the only player to have won the season-long points chase more than twice. He also topped the PGA Tour Champions money-list for the 11th time out of a possible 13 since 2008.
Carlota Ciganda: the five-time Solheim Cup star was delighted to record a fourth Ladies European Tour win in her home national championship, the Ladies Spanish Open.
Lee Elder: Trailblazer, Ryder Cup player, four-time PGA Tour winner and eight-time Senior PGA Tour winner, Lee Elder died on November 28, aged 87. In 1975 he became the first African American golfer to play in the Masters tournament, and in so doing provided one of the pivotal moments in the history of professional golf.
Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Courses in Europe. From France to Spain to the Netherlands and Norway, the Golf World Top 100 panel reveals the places you have to play (published 20 October 2021).
New 27-hole golf complex to be built in southern Belgium
A new golf complex in southern Belgium, close to the border with Luxembourg, will start construction in June 2021.
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club "makes its tournament debut with the hosting of the Italian Open on the European Tour" by Richard Humphreys
Gamble Sands opens short course:
David McLay Kidd’s 14-hole QuickSands short course has opened for play at Gamble Sands in Brewster, Washington.
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