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:
Women’s major championships: the month of June sees two women’s majors: the US Women’s Open (June 3-6), with A Lim Kim defending, and the Women’s PGA Championship (June 24-27), with Sei Young Kim defending.
Senior PGA Championship: the revered Southern Hills in Oklahoma hosts the 81st staging of this event (May 27-30); Ken Tanigawa holds the title from its last playing in 2019.
Who's Who:
Phil Mickelson: in winning the 2021 PGA Championship, the world’s most famous “leftie” became the oldest winner of a golf major championship.
Hideki Matsuyama: became the first Japanese professional to win a men’s major championship, when he triumphed in this year’s Masters Tournament.
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.
American Dunes opens for play following Nicklaus transformation
Nicklaus Design has transformed the former Grand Haven Golf Club in Michigan into the American Dunes Golf Club, a new public course that is now open for play
New course opens for play at Barnbougle
Bill Coore designs 14-hole layout with “sporty” holes on dune ridge above Lost Farm (golf carts allowed).
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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