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Austin Country Club
Austin, Texas
- Address4408 Long Champ Dr, Austin, TX 78746, USA
Founded in 1899, Austin Country Club is one of the oldest golf clubs in the state of Texas. Fifty years after its formation, the club moved to Riverside Drive where it remained until finally settling at a 180-acre Davenport Ranch site in 1984.
Pete and Alice Dye were tasked with laying out the current course on land adjacent to Lake Austin and they routed the opening seven holes on largely flat terrain beside the water, with the remaining holes set out on hillier parts of the property.
The elevation changes on holes 8 to 18 are severe – Deer Creek Canyon winds its way across holes 11 to 13 – leading to one commentator describing the back nine as “a wild ride, a golf version of a bucking bronco (and) not for the faint of heart or rickety of swing”.
The WGC Match Play Championship was hosted at Austin Country Club in 2016 after a lengthy stay at Dove Mountain and a once-only stop at TPC Harding Park in 2015. The event has since remained at Austin Country Club.
Founded in 1899, Austin Country Club is one of the oldest golf clubs in the state of Texas. Fifty years after its formation, the club moved to Riverside Drive where it remained until finally settling at a 180-acre Davenport Ranch site in 1984.
Pete and Alice Dye were tasked with laying out the current course on land adjacent to Lake Austin and they routed the opening seven holes on largely flat terrain beside the water, with the remaining holes set out on hillier parts of the property.
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Pete Dye captained the college team in his youth before going on to qualify for the US Open in 1957. He won the Indiana State Amateur, took part in The Amateur in 1963 and played in five US Amateurs.
