4408 Long Champ Drive,
Austin Texas 78746
The Course:
18 holes. Tree-lined & open parkland. Undulating terrain.
Surroundings:
Woodland, high-end residential and Lake Austin on the Colorado River.
Designer:
Layout at current location by husband/wife team of Pete & Alice Dye (1984).
30.344610
-97.798328
10 mi NW of downtown Austin.
From Capital of Texas Highway (Hwy 360) turn East on to Westlake Drive. Take the first left, which is Long Champ Drive. Austin Country Club is at the end of Long Champ Drive.
Austin CC
Austin Country Club: nestled in the heart of the Texas Hill Country with a stretch of holes sidling up alongside Lake Austin on the Colorado River, the private Austin Country Club is home to a championship course that ranks with some of the best in Texas. The challenging 18-hole layout, designed by Pete & Alice Dye, is now home to a prestigious World Golf Championships (WGC) event.
Private club - guests may only play if hosted by a member.
Non-metal spike facility.
Excellent
Austin Country Club is one of the oldest existing golf clubs in Texas and home to one of the greatest golf instructors who ever lived, Harvey Penick.
Austin is host to the WGC-Dell Technologies Championship Match Play since 2016; see details on Top Golf Tournaments played at Austin CC.
2019/20 Golf Digest rating: 6th best course in Texas.
Tournaments:
Solheim Cup: can Europe defend the most prestigious team trophy in women’s professional golf, when the 17th Solheim Cup is played out at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio (Sept 4-6).
Italian Open: Nicolai Højgaard recorded his first European Tour win (Sept 5), just a week after his twin brother Rasmus landed the European Masters title (Aug 29); the first brothers to win back-to-back on the European Tour.
Who's Who:
Patrick Cantlay: moved into the world top 5, after winning the final two FedEx Cup playoff events and scooping the $15 million first prize.
Trish Johnson: kept the Senior LPGA Championship trophy in European hands, with her second win in this event in its four-year history.
The San Roque Club: "... how best to revitalise a course that had previously been fit to play regular host to the European Tour’s qualifying school finals..." by Toby Ingleton.
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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