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, 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, includes a stretch of holes sidling up alongside Lake Austin on the Colorado River, and overlooked by the famous Pennybacker Bridge. The course plays host 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. Parts of the course are overlooked by the famous Pennybacker Bridge, also known as Austin's 360 Bridge.
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:
PGA Championship: the year’s second men’s major championship is hosted by Southern Hills CC, Tulsa, Oklahoma, amidst doubt as to whether reigning champion Phil Mickelson will defend his title (May 19-22).
Soudal Open: Belgium’s return to European Tour golf sees 36-hole Rinkven International GC host the Soudal Open, the country’s national open championship (May 12-15).
Who's Who:
Scottie Scheffler: bags the 2022 Masters Tournament title, and with it a fourth win in six starts on the PGA Tour and his first major championship victory.
Stephen Dodd: took the European Senior Tour’s 2021 Order of Merit honours following the abandonment due to rain of the season’s final event, the MCB Tour Championship – Mauritius (April 1-3, 2022).
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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