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Directory & Travel 2014

Contents Volume 4 Issue 1

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On the cover 28 Streamsong: Former phosphate mine now a golf gold mine

Features

Streamsong

12 When betting, beware of wolves, rabbits, and snakes

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2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee makes golf travel easy

15 Bag stuffers for golf travelers 16 Ed Travis analyzes the best new clubs for 2014

Travel 20 Scottsdale a winter haven for Oklahomans 24 TPC Champions, a Randy Heckenkemper desert gem

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26 Sewailo: Notah Begay makes his mark with Arizona’s first new course in five years.

30 Cancun: Sun, fun, beaches and golf 34 Alex Brown: looking for No. 100 36 Hilton Head: Classic family golf trip 40 Austin: Horseshoe Bay and Lost Pines await.

46 Natural State Golf Trail next door

Departments

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10 Letter from the Publisher 49 Oklahoma Private Listings 56 Oklahoma Public Listings 76 Cross Reference

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Directory & Travel Issue 2014 letter from the publisher

Section offers new PGA golf pass The following pages contain stories on some great destinations for both family and golf buddy trips. For those adventurous golfers who like to stay closer to home, we have another great suggestion.

Golf Oklahoma has teamed up with the PGA South Central Section to help promote its new PGA Golf Pass. The section approached its membership, which includes professionals in Oklahoma, Arkansas and southern Kansas, to ask for one of two things.

Either provide a free or heavily discounted round (along with paid cart fee) at a public courses, or in the case of a private course, provide access where before there was none.

The Section will use its proceeds from the Pass to benefit both its junior golf programs and its grow-the-game initiatives under the Section Foundation. And not only is the cause worthy, the deals are excellent. We invite you to peruse for yourself all the offers at www.scspgagolfpass.com. On that site you can click on the book and look through every page as well as complete an easy online order. The price is just $49.95, not bad for a book that offers 73 free rounds of golf.

It’s always interesting when updating the information on all the courses in Oklahoma to get a feel for what’s going on across the state. Throughout the 1990s, we would bring you details of four or five new courses opening each year. Now, in a year when the National Golf Foundation reports that 157 courses closed in the U.S. against just 14 openings, there are some inspiring stories of courses which have overcome long odds to survive.

No better example exists than that of Sugar Creek Canyon in Hinton, which was sold to a mortuary owner who coveted the clubhouse

but had no use for the course. Folks in Hinton have come together to form an association to keep the course open and improve it if possible. It’s definitely a course worth keeping.

Another return from the abyss story is The Wolf at Tenkiller near Vian. The Wolf is owned by the hard-working Fulbright family which has made it a family project to restore the course which had been closed for nearly six years. It’s got a great grill and the Duck Pin Bowling Alley to boot.

Speaking of wolves, another restoration project began last fall at Wolf Ridge Country Club in Wister near Poteau. A group of more than 40 community golf enthusiasts teamed up to buy the course, which had fallen into disrepair, from its previous owner and have been working hard since to spruce up the scenic course, which is built partially on Wolf Ridge running off Poteau Mountain, billed as the world’s tallest hill.

Another course where a fresh face is making a difference is the Lawton Municipal Course, where Joe English took over the lease and has been working hard to improve the irrigation system, fill in fairways and improve the bent grass greens that have been in play since at least 1946.

We wrote extensively last summer about the great restoration at Boiling Springs in Woodward, led by John Dunn. This was another course that was closed and in danger of being lost.

All of these courses provide crucial recreation in areas that otherwise are not overflowing with golf selections such as we enjoy in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. We wish them all the best and encourage your support as well.

– Ken MacLeod

2014 OGA Schedule May 20-21, OGA Senior Spring Four-Ball Championship, Twin Hills Golf & CC May 20-21, OGA Spring Four-Ball Championship, Twin Hills Golf & CC June 2-5, OGA Junior Boys and Girls Championship, Kickingbird Golf Club June 16-19, OGA Senior State Amateur Championship, The Territory Golf & Country Club June 30-July 1, OGA Mid-Amateur Championship, Gaillardia Golf & CC July 14-15, OGA Senior Stroke Play Championship, The Trails Golf Club July 21-23, OGA State Amateur Championship, The Patriot Aug. 4-6, OGA Stroke Play Championship, Shangri La Resort Aug. 14, Oklahoma Open Amateur qualifying, Lincoln Park Golf Club Aug. 22-24, Oklahoma Open, Oak Tree Country Club Sept. 8, OGA State Club Championship, The Club at Indian Springs

2014 Women’s Oklahoma Golf Association Schedule April 26-27, WOGA Mixed Couples Tournament May 19-20, WOGA Cup Club Team Championship, Dornick Hills Country Club June 23-24, WOGA Stroke Play and Mid-Am Championship, Oak Tree Country Club July 8-9, WOGA Junior Championship, Quail Creek Golf & CC July 14-17, WOGA State Amateur Championship, Cedar Ridge CC July 27-29, Fore State Team Championship, Shangri-La Golf Club Aug. 19-20, WOGA Partnership Championship, Shangri-La Oct. 14-15, WOGA Senior Championship, River Oaks Golf Club

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Volume 4, Number 1 Golf Oklahoma Offices Southern Hills Plaza 6218 S. Lewis Ave., Ste. 200 Tulsa, OK 74136 918-280-0787 Oklahoma City Office 405-640-9996 Publisher Ken MacLeod ken@golfoklahoma.org COO/Marketing Director A.G. Meyers agm@golfoklahoma.org Art & Technology Director Chris Swafford chris@golfoklahoma.org Subscriptions to Golf Oklahoma are $15 for one year (five issues) or $25 for two years (10 issues). Call 918-280-0787 or go to www.golfoklahoma.org.

Contributing photographers Rip Stell, Mike Klemme Golf Oklahoma PGA Instructional Staff Jim Woodward Teaching Professional, Oak Tree National jwoodwardgolf@sbcglobal.net, 405-348-2004 E.J. Pfister Teaching Professional, Oak Tree National ejgolf@me.com Pat McTigue Owner, GolfTec Tulsa and Oklahoma City pmctigue@golftec.com Steve Ball Owner, Ball Golf Center, Oklahoma City www.ballgolf.com, 405-842-2626 Pat Bates Director of Instruction, Gaillardia Country Club pbates@gaillardia.com, 405-509-3611 Tracy Phillips Director of Instruction, Buddy Phillips Learning Center at Cedar Ridge vt4u@yahoo.com, 918-352-1089 Jerry Cozby PGA Professional jerrycozby@aol.com, 918-914-1784 Michael Boyd, PGA Professional Indian Springs Country Club 918-455-9515 Oklahoma Golf Association 2800 Coltrane Place, Suite 2 Edmond, OK 73034 405-848-0042 Executive Director Mark Felder mfelder@okgolf.org Director of Handicapping and Course Rating Jay Doudican jdoudican@okgolf.org Director of Junior Golf Morri Rose morose@okgolf.org Copyright 2014 by Golf Oklahoma Magazine. All rights reserved. Contents may not be reprinted or otherwise reproduced without written permission from Golf Oklahoma.

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No bet, no sweat A hundred ways to lose by tom bedell

The world, it is said, can be divided into two groups – those who divide the world into two groups, and those who don’t. The world of golf almost works that way – those who wager, and those who don’t.

We all know players who can’t really venture out onto the course unless there’s some kind of action on the line. The bet is the real focus, and it’s reasonable to wonder whether such players actually care about the golf at all.

And we all know players who wouldn’t dream of parting with a nickel beyond the greens fee. It’s reasonable to wonder about these players whether they shouldn’t be divided into two groups – puritans, and those who just might take the game a little too seriously.

I did just play with a golf writer in Texas who claimed the action helped him understand the strategy of holes better, and I believe him, since he went for a par-5 over water in two because I had him dormie with three to play and $5 on the line. Damned if we didn’t finish all square.

Most of us exist in a vast middle ground as far as wagering goes. At one extreme there is the pencil pusher who can arrange more bets in a round than there are baseball games in a season – and keep track of them as well, though the scorecard may look hacked to death with graphite by the end of the match. But even this guy can sit it out if no one is moved to bet that day.

His opposite is the player willing enough to throw a few bucks into the pot, but doesn’t really want to have to think much about it while play is underway. His oft-heard motto is, “Just tell me how much I owe at the end.”

Then he wins all the money.

My usual foursome has gone through a gradual betting metamorphosis over the years. We used to not bet at all – couldn’t be bothered – we had other troubles to keep track of. Then we started playing some twoman team games, but never bothered to pay off at the end--not much different than not betting at all, actually.

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other troubles often was.

Fighting one’s own game can become wearying, especially when starting a round with a quadruple bogey, or worse. The minor yet revelatory discovery we made w a s that you c o u l d justly give up on your o w n score, and still have a dang good time playing the match. And the match could add an element of challenge to a hole or a putt that just posting a score couldn’t quite, well, compete with.

They’ve known this across the pond ever since the first shepherds starting swinging their crooks. Match play is the ideal way to avoid keeping score and yet still maintain the intrinsic challenge of competition.

Sometimes it may just be for the honor and the glory, although no one I know can remember the last time that was true.

In the new world, the nearly universal bet is the $2 Nassau. Readers unfamiliar with this are either puritans or take the game too seriously. But golf, a game of infinite variety, offers infinite ways for a player to be burnt: Wolf, Snake, Bingo Bango Bongo, Skins, with greenies and sandies for the added seasoning, naturally.

The usual foursome tried Bingo Bango Bongo recently on a buddy trip to Pinehurst.

But there was so much to remember on each hole – who landed on the green first, who got down first, who made the longest putt and so on, that the game within a game became too distracting and we abandoned it.

We usually play a two-man low low game, meaning there’s a point on the table for the single low score on each hole and a point for the aggregate low. If we play 18, we have

three different six-hole matches, with the three possible teams – for $2, naturally.

We don’t stop there. Closest to the pin is good for a buck a man on every par-3, and $2 if one lands the sole ball on the green.

(Provided one “validates” with a par or better, naturally.)

We don’t necessarily stop there, either.

There’s always the poker game. For this one, each player throws a buck into the pot for every three-putt. And every player gets a card for every one-putt. At the end of the round, the earned cards are dealt out and played stud style, the winning poker hand raking in the pot.

There is another reason for the betting.

After all, there are those in the world who drink, and those who don’t. But those that do know that the post-round beer at the clubhouse bar is usually one of the best times for drinking a beer ever conceived.

And since figuring out who owes what to whom, who wins the pot, and therefore who buys the beers can take a while, it sometimes provides time enough to necessitate a second beer. This is usually a good bet, too.

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Take your golf trip in style by greg horton

Considerations when buying a new vehicle always include price, color, amenities, and gas mileage, but storage capacity for golf equipment ought to be part of the decision as well. SUVs can be among the most expensive of vehicles, but auto manufacturers have responded well to customer demands for affordable, midsize crossovers.

One of the oldest names in the travel and recreation category is Jeep. The 2014 Jeep Cherokee comes equipped with the Jeep Cargo Management System. The system allows modification to the rear storage area, and a collapsible cooler and cargo bin are two available options. The base model starts at $23,000, so getting a nicely equipped model featuring navigation, electronics, and luxury amenities is easily achieved for under $40,000.

Buick has been making luxury cars for decades.

They are rightly known for their commitment to comfort, space, and reliability. The 2014 Enclave, which starts at $38,000, has every conceivable convenience and luxury amenity on the list of options. The Enclave seats eight passengers in three

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Remember these travel keys by greg horton

Restaurants and hotel bars can be a mixed bag for travelers. Occasionally, you will find an excellent bar and bartender, but just as often, you will end up in a hotel with a wine list composed of wines not even suitable for cooking. We asked wine professionals and bartenders around the state what they take with them on their travels to ensure they can still drink well, even when they end up in one of the less desirable hotels.

The most obvious item for wine lovers is a good wine key. A heavy duty, dual-stage wine key takes up about as much room as a comb, which is to say it will fit anywhere in your luggage or overnight bag. The easiest solution is to have two: one for home and one that remains in your overnight bag.

Another solution here is simply to purchase wines with screw tops, called Stelvin closures. There was a time when only very poor quality wine came in screw top bottles, but those days ended a solid decade ago.

Vintners have been transitioning to Stelvin

closures because the screw tops cut down considerably on waste, especially of the corked or oxidized varieties.

Glassware is another issue. Most hotel rooms come equipped with tumblers, which are great for cocktails, but not so good for wine. Sometimes simply asking at the bar or front desk can solve the problem, but just as often, many hotel bars have terrible glassware. Depending on how much space you want to allocate for drinking, govino glasses are an excellent choice. These recyclable, plastic, shatterproof wine glasses have quickly become the go-to choice for winery tasting rooms and wine tastings. They are available in three different styles: red, white, and flute.

Beer drinkers have a relatively easy time of it, except for the same glassware issue. If you are not picky about the glass (or if you just prefer bottle or can), the only item to pack is the church key.

Fans of spirits have a slightly more difficult time. Bartenders were mixed in their responses about what is important. The list can be quite long, necessitating a separate shav-

ing-kit-sized bag for bar supplies. For cocktails, the best advice is to keep it simple. Yes, you could take your own muddler in case you wanted a Mojito or Old Fashioned, but that would mean you would likely need a strainer, peeler, and shaker as well.

All agreed on the importance of the jigger or oxo measuring cup. It is clearly the most necessary implement, but beyond that, the best approach might be to invest in a simple portable travel bar. Hundreds of choices can be found online, and prices begin below $100 for the simplest sets. Most include space for two bottles of spirits, and good ones have space for martini or lowball glasses.

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No shortage of new offerings for 2014

Manufacturers refine old favorites as well by ed travis

club companies we found the most interesting.

Up until a few years ago most club manufacturers waited for what has been called a “Disneyland for golf-nuts,” or as it is prop- Callaway Golf erly known the PGA Merchandise Show, to make Callaway has resurrected two iconic brand names. The first is their big splash about new models.

Big Bertha, the name of the club that started the explosion in However these days new products driver clubhead size. Big Bertha for 2014 has two models see the light of day in late fall and with the regular one targeted at recreational early winter, well in advance of players with a new twist, or the PGA Merchandise Show each should I say January. “slide,” in Golf Oklahoma continually playertracks club manufacturers and c o n what they are bringing to market so we can have the information in your hands even before spring arrives.

This year our staff spent a week at the PGA Merchandise Show finalizing our research so if 2014 is your year to replace that old set here are some of Callaway the clubs Apex Irons Callaway from the Big Bertha leading

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trolled adjustment. Specifically there is an 8-gram weight in a 5-inch track at the rear of the clubhead thereby adjusting the club’s draw or fade bias. The second Big Bertha is the Alpha and it doesn’t have a sliding weight but does have a reversible carbon tube in the center of the sole to adjust ball backspin without effecting trajectory. This tube and other features of the Alpha are designed to help higher swing speed players get a low trajectorylow spin ball flight. The Big Bertha model is $399 and the Alpha model $499.

The name Apex maybe 40 years old but still is immutably associated with Ben Hogan and the irons he created. Callaway bought and then sold the Ben Hogan brand but retained the Apex nomenclature and for 2014 is using it for a new forged iron. The design is a cavity back targeted at players wanting the forged-ironfeel plus wanting (or needing) game improvement forgiveness. A 4-iron through PW set with steel shafts carries a suggested retail of $960.

and land short. The Speed Pocket helps to overcome mishits of that type.

TaylorMade’s new irons, the SpeedBlades, replace last year’s popular RocketBladez and share several design features most notably the slot cut in the sole behind the clubface to allow the clubface additional flex at impact for more dis-

TaylorMade Golf The dominant company in metalwoods has a new driver, the JetSpeed, which makes a nice compliment to the SLDR driver introduced last August. The JetSpeed, aggressively priced at $299, employs a very successful feature first seen on metalwoods from TMaG’s Adams Golf division, the Speed Pocket. This slot behind the clubface increases clubface flex and rebound which help for faster ball speeds. Their research found the typical golfer hits the ball towards the bottom of the clubface which tends to put way too much spin on the ball and makes it fly too high

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tance. Similar to the one designed into the JetSpeed driver, and there for the same reason to help with low on the clubface impacts, this “Speed Pocket” is found in 3-iron through 7-iron but is slightly longer than the one in the RocketBladez plus it has little “handle bars” on either end. SpeedBlades—4 through PW, steel shafts—sell for $700.

Titleist Titleist’s policy is to introduce new iron models in even numbered years so for 2014 they carry the designation of 714. Neither the 714 AP1 and AP2 models break new ground but both are improvements on the previous 712s. AP1s ($800 steel and $1,000 graphite) are a cast game improvement design with a dual cavity back and tungsten weighting in the long and mid irons while the short irons have a slightly higher center of gravity and 1 degree stronger lofts to flatten the trajectory for better control. For better players the AP2s also have Titleist 714 AP1 a pair of rear

cavities with the upper being 25 percent thinner. As with the AP1s there is tungsten weighting and an additional tungsten weight near the heel, forged during the clubhead making process (called “co-forging,” a technique pioneered by Titleist). Suggested retail is $1,100 with steel shafts and $1,300 with graphite.

Tour Edge Golf One club that particularly stands out a m o n g the new introductions is the Exotics CB Pro, a limited edition fairway with a smaller “retro-look” clubhead and a sole design that is getting a lot of comments. Tour Edge wanted to minimize drag against the turf at impact especially for better players and they did it with what they call a “Slip Stream” sole. Tour Edge says the combination of the unique sole and a beta titanium cup face makes for maximum energy transfer producing both more distance Exotics CB Pro and better control. At a

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suggested retail of $499 the CB Pro may not be for everyone but for players looking to get the most out of their fairway game it’s worth consideration.

Finally, since one of golf’s great joys is walking, a push cart makes sense and certainly will increase your enjoyment of the round.

The Bag Boy C3 model is really compact and in fact folds down to 21½ inches by 13 inches by 18 inches so it’s not a trunk space hog. However, even though it’s compact when folded, unfolded there are several features that

caught our attention. First was the price, which at $200 is easy on the budget but not to be overlooked is the one-step adjustment for the handle or that the parking brake mounted right on the handle.

The C3 also accommodates either a stand bag or cart bag because the upper bag bracket has easy-to-adjust support arms. It even comes in a choice of colors, either matte black, silver/black, white/yellow or navy/white.

Another attractive choice is the Speed Cart Push Cart V1 Sport from Sun Mountain, a new version of their popular Speed Cart

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push cart. The V1 has an improved design to make unfolding easier and an updated pin brake system replacing the old caliper brake. The quick release latch is very handy as is the weight at only 17 pounds. We especially liked the solid foam tires mounted on synthetic wheels making them rugged and maintenance free essentially for the life of the cart. The V1 is in stores now at a suggested retail of $199 in either white/ lime, silver/pink, black, blue, gunmetal/red, silver or gunmetal/orange.

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Winter haven

Chamblee leads chorus for Scottsdale by bill huffman SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – It’s wise to listen to experts such as Brandel Chamblee and Michael Allen before you plan your next golf trip to Scottsdale.

Both of those well-known pros have lived in Arizona’s ultimate golf destination for more than 20 years and know the lay of this gorgeous golfscape.

“I was in the early part of my playing career, living in Edmond (Okla.) when I discovered Scottsdale,” chuckled Chamblee, the former Tour player who is an outspoken Golf Channel commentator.

“Oh, do I remember it well. I was living with Willie Wood in Edmond, and every day during the winter months I’d wake up to 40-degree temperatures, with the wind howling about 20-, 30-, 40-mph. It got so that I couldn’t practice, and so, not being a dummy, I started catching a cheap Southwest (Airlines) flight from Edmond to Phoenix early in the morning. I’d get off the plane, practice and play all day in Scottsdale, and then fly back to Edmond that night. I did it so often that I finally got Willie to tag along.”

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“I can’t say I immediately liked the golf Chamblee and Wood decided to get real.

“I’m not sure why, but that last year I better than I did in the Bay Area growing lived in Oklahoma, after I probably made up. I mean Arizona golf is so perfect, so topanother 40 or so of those trips, I finally notch. It’s almost like playing under a dome.

In fact, I call golf in Scottsdale rented an apartment in Scottsdale “dome golf.” But there was a just a few blocks from the TPC,” lot of it to choose from, and Chamblee added. “Turned out to over the years I’ve really come be such a good move that Willie to love places like the TPC and left Edmond and moved in again.”

Grayhawk and Troon North Allen, the Champions Tour and Whisper Rock. But it’s still star who grew up in the cool, dome golf to me.” damp confines of San Francisco, Allen’s short list of golf where he played such courses as courses in Scottsdale is quite the TPC Harding Park and the spectacular even if visitors Olympic Club, the storied course can’t tee it up at Whisper Rock, where he still remains a member Brandel Chamblee where nearly 30 tour players today, said Scottsdale came “unare members. And if you ask Chamblee, naturally” to him.

“I was playing golf all over the world, try- who happens to serve as the official “golf ing to grind out a living, and then I arrived ambassador” for Scottsdale, that list is a mile in Arizona one day for some lucky reason,” long, considering there are almost 40 pubsaid Allen, who has won as much money lic courses within its city limits and another on the 50-and-over circuit in four years (ap- 160 within a 30-mile radius.

According to Chamblee, the rest of the proximately $6 million) as he did in almost two decades on the PGA Tour, where he “best of Scottsdale” includes such layouts played in 379 tournaments without a single as Talking Stick Golf Club, The Boulders Resort, Legend Trail Golf Club, The Phoewin.

The Boulders Resort is one of Chamblee’s favorites. nician and nearby We-Ko-Pa Golf Club, which is just over the hill in adjoining Fountain Hills. Chamblee also mentioned more traditional tracks like McCormick Ranch and Camelback Golf Clubs, as well as more moderately priced courses like the TPC Champions.

“I’ve been lucky to play a lot of golf at private clubs in Scottsdale like Desert Mountain and Whisper Rock,” said Chamblee, who splits his residency these days between Orlando, Fla., where he works for the Golf Channel, and north Scottsdale, where his children live.

“But my favorite place is a public course -- Talking Stick North, where (architects) Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore did a dandy job of building a links-link golf course smack dab in the middle of the desert.

The bunkers and mountain backdrops are just unreal out there.

“Then again, Scottsdale has so many really, really good golf courses that when people ask me which one they should play, I just say: ‘Pick any of ’em. They’re all fantastic.’ “ Chamblee concurs with Allen, that the conditioning of Scottsdale’s finest is second to none. Combine that with sunshine for 330 days a year, and it’s a “win-win-win.”

“There’s an ‘A’ list people like to play, and there’s a couple of courses I’ve never played but from what I’ve heard are very good,” Chamblee added. “One of those is the new Ambiente Course at Camelback (formerly the Indian Bend Course), which I hear is picture-perfect after they did a $10 million renovation.”

That lush list of layouts that Chamblee referred to starts with Troon North and its dueling diamonds -- the Monument and Pinnacle. If you’ve come to the High Sonoran Desert for awe-inspiring scenery, then the Monument is definitely your first choice. If you’re a

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The eighth hole at Grayhawk’s Raptor Course. single-digit or scratch golfer, Pinnacle offers a tougher test with equally impressive landmarks like Pinnacle Peak. Considering both Troon North courses are nationally ranked by most golf publications, it’s hard to go wrong although be prepared for a greens fee that will peak at $249 in high season.

Talking Stick, which also has a second course built by Crenshaw and Coore in the South, is a little more reasonably priced at $185, with a twilight rate that goes even lower. The South is what you would find in the Midwest, with lots of trees and water, and just a completely different feel than the

North. According to people who run Talking Stick, both courses are so terrific that the tee sheet is split right down the middle at 50-50.

The Boulders also boasts two great layouts named the North and the South. But those in the know book their golf on the South, which has an abundance of signature holes like No. 5, a par-5 that plays up a split fairway to a surreal green setting lodged in those million-year-old rocks, and the par-3 seventh hole, where a seven-story boulder called “Rosie” teeters over golfers’ heads.

The Boulders will set you back $200-plus.

Grayhawk, too, offers two great tracks in

The gorgeous first hole on Pinnacle at Troon North.

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the Raptor and the Talon and will hit you up for two “Benjamins.” The Raptor, which gave birth to the inaugural Match Play Championship back in the mid-1990s and also hosted the Frys.com Open from 2007 to 2009, is a rugged challenge for most golfers, which is why it proved so worthy for the pros. Talon’s chief difficulty is its multitiered greens, although you will never forget the picturesque par-3 11th hole, “Swinging Bridge” and the drivable par-4 13th, “Heaven or Hell.” Plus, Grayhawk’s service will rival any country club’s, and Phil’s Grill (named after Mickelson) might be the best 19th hole in the Grand Canyon State.

The Phoenician also has some intriguing golf in its three nines. As a rule, the higher you go up Camelback Mountain, where The Phoenician is located, the more impressive the playing field – an incredible high. And if views are your thing more than your swing, they don’t get more panoramic than those found on the Saguaro and Cholla courses at We-Ko-Pa, which is a Native American reference to the nearby Four Peaks.

But say you want to spend under $100, which you can’t do at the TPC Scottsdale’s Stadium Course, which tops out at almost $300 following the Waste Management Phoenix Open in early February. The Champions Course at the TPC is always a bargain, and an impressive one at that, considering the Champions Tour holds its Q-School finals there each year and it gives the older Tour guys all they can handle. And even though the Stadium will remain open this year until April 1, it will be closed following that for a six-month, $10 million renovation before opening back up later this fall.

Legend Trail by Rees Jones and the Mickelson-owned McDowell Mountain Club are other outstanding options in Scottsdale, as well as Vista Verde Country Club, Dove Valley Ranch Golf Club and the Golf Club at Rancho Manana (yeah, it’s a little tight but it’s beautiful). Wildfire Golf Club at Desert Ridge has 36 holes in the Palmer and Faldo courses, which, when combined, provide the backdrop for the annual LPGA Founders Cup in mid-March. And there are other courses that won’t break the bank, like Orange Tree Resort, Silverado Golf Club,

The 13th hole at Ambiente Course at Camelback Golf Club.

Starfire at Scottsdale Country Club and tiny players that state has produced. And the Coronado Golf Course, an executive layout reason for that is simple: You learn to play in some mighty tough conditions there bethat literally is a walk in the park.

No matter where you decide to tee it up cause nothing’s ever perfect except for a few in Scottsdale, Chamblee has your modus days a year.

“Personally, I’ll take Scottsdale, where you operandi covered – and Allen would agree can go play 18 wonderful holes and then to a point.

“It’s always nice to come to Arizona, kick back with a muy magnificent margarwhere everything is perfect,” Chamblee ita. Now that’s my kind of golf these days!” said. “Scottsdale golf is generally a real Bill Huffman has covered golf in Arizona since good fit for the average player.

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Heckenkemper has a hit with TPC Champions by ken macleod

The Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale draws the lion’s share of the attention thanks to the throngs who attend the Waste Management Phoenix Open, but just next door is another excellent desert course that bears the signature of Tulsa-based golf architect Randy Heckenkemper.

In 2007, the TPC Champions Course was reopened after a thorough redesign by Heckenkemper of the previous TPC Desert Course designed by Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish. The intent was to take a short, tricky course that served the Scottsdale public market at about a $60 rate and give it an upgrade to where the holes were longer, more strategic and with more generous landing areas. The course is still far less expensive than The Stadium Course but commands an in-season rate of up to $139, less for locals.

“The Desert Course was designed to host a huge number of rounds, but what they

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found was guests were playing the Stadium Course and then going elsewhere,” Heckenkemper said. “Now they are also playing the Champions Course while they’re here.”

Golf Oklahoma got a look at the course recently and found that despite the limit of maintained acreage at 85, the course alternates between a desert and parkland feel.

The first hole is the only one that seems cramped. After that, an interesting array of holes awaits that includes room to hit driver but a good variety of bunnkers, native areas and water awaiting the errant shot.

Some of Heckenkemper’s favorite holes are the par-4 fifth with a fairway split by a waste area, two demanding driving holes in the par-4 11th and 12th and a fun closing stretch from 16-18. Some of the mounding and ground features can be used to good effect once the course is learned.

Greens are perched in different angles that lend some extra spice to the approach shots on many holes. If playing from the correct tees, however, your approach shots will be

short enough to handle the challenge. If the greens are missed, most holes have closelymown areas that provide options for chipping or pitch shots.

Although there was some reluctance among a segment of Arizona golfers to losing the lower green fee on the Desert Course, the acclaim for Heckenkemper’s course from a design and playability standpoint among both golf course critics and players has been strong.

“It’s really done a lot to sustain and promote my career,” said Heckenkemper, who in Oklahoma has done such projects as Forest Ridge, Chickasaw Pointe and The Territory among many others.

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Stunning Sewailo

Tucson will benefit from Begay’s best by dan vukelich

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s Golf Channel commentator Notah Begay III sees it, if designing golf courses is the best way he can create economic opportunities for fellow Native Americans, then a golf course designer he will be.

Begay’s second signature course, Sewailo Golf Club, owned by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, opened southwest of Tucson in December as an amenity of the 215-room Casino del Sol Resort. Golf Digest named Sewailo (pronounced Sih-why-lo) to its best of 2013 newcourses list. It is the first new course to open in Arizona in five years.

Although he has helped develop three courses and put his name on two of them (Sewailo and Firekeepers near Topeka, Kan.), the four-time PGA Tour winner said he never set out to be a designer. “I really didn’t have a tremendous intention to get into golf design,” Begay said at Sewailo’s opening in December.

“I was more concerned about economic development. This course is more of a community effort versus a stand-alone golf course.”

Growing up in New Mexico, one of the poorest states in the U.S., Begay saw firsthand the positive economic impact of golf tourism among Native Americans. Seven of 19 New Mexico tribes developed golf resorts that created long-term jobs in their communities.

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tive American (half part Navajo and a quarter each San Felipe and Isleta Pueblo), frequently uses the word “community.” For tribes, he said, “cultural identity is so important for the community to hold onto,” while at the same time, “the community can cultivate and harness” its culture to create jobs.

Among Native Americans, unemployment over the last three years has hovered between 11 and 15 percent, nearly twice the U.S. average. In addition, one in two Native American children suffers from Type 2 Diabetes.

Begay, 41, beat the odds through a childhood in Albuquerque, filled with sports – golf, basketball and soccer. Through golf, he attended Stanford University, where he was a teammate of Tiger Woods on the 1994 NCAA Division I championship golf team.

He also was a member of Walker Cup and Presidents Cup teams.

In 1999, he became the first full-blooded Native American to win on the PGA Tour, winning at the Reno-Tahoe Open. Within four months, he won the 1999 Michelob Championship at Kingsmill, the 2000 FedEx St. Jude FedEx Classic and the 2000 Canon Greater Hartford Open.

After a recurring back injury forced him to leave professional golf, Begay founded the NB3 Foundation to combat Type 2 Diabetes and its precursor, childhood obesity.

The foundation establishes youth sports pro-

grams on Indian reservations across the West.

Begay believes that recognizing where you came from and honoring those who helped you along the way is a must.

“You don’t have to be a superstar to be a role model, you just have to be willing to give back,” Begay said during the Dec. 12 opening of Sewailo.

His foundation holds the NB3 Challenge, a fundraiser, at Oneida Indian Nation’s Turning Stone Casino & Resort in Verona, N.Y. His friend, Woods, and other PGA Tour stars have competed in his event. It was at Turning Stone that Begay met Ty Butler, a senior project architect for Robert Trent Jones II Golf Architects.

In 2008-09, Begay collaborated with Butler on Sequoyah National Golf Club for the Eastern Band Cherokees near Asheville, N.C. In December 2011, Begay and his company, NB3 Consulting, partnered with Butler a second time on Sewailo. Begay worked with the tribe to analyze the economics and shepherd the project through the tribal approval process. Butler, working for JMP Golf Design, handled routing, earth-moving and construction. As the course took form, Begay tweaked the design to add strategic choices, Butler said.

Now that Sewailo is open and under management of Troon Golf, Begay is looking down the road toward his next Native

Sewailo with the Casino del Sol in the background.

American development project – possibly in his home state.

“As excited as I am about Sewailo, my dream is still to design and develop a course in New Mexico,” he said.

Sewailo Golf Club, the new home of University of Arizona Wildcats golf teams, has some of the feel of another lavishly appointed desert oasis – Steve Wynn’s Shadow Creek near Las Vegas – but without the $500 greens fee.

Dan Vukelich, a freelance golf writer, lives in Its 7,282 yards rise and fall over 200 Albuquerque, N.M., and edits newmexicogolf- acres of man-made earthen berms and news.com ridges. The course has 14 acres of lakes, a babbling brook, several waterfalls and 30,000 native and flowering plants. In the Yaqui language, Sewailo means “flower land.”

Enough earth – 1.2 million cubic yards – was moved at Sewailo to build a small suburb. By contrast, a minimalist approach to laying a golf course over undisturbed terrain might entail moving 200,000 to 250,000 cubic yards of dirt.

Golf architect Ty Butler said the massive earth-moving effort was necessitated by Notah Begay the “glass-flat” character of the Tucson desSewailo Golf Club: ert, the need to create elevation changes to 18 holes, Par 72 allow for tee-box views – and especially to Five tees boxes, 5,209-7,282 yards permit water to flow fast enough to create visual interest as it courses across the propSlope range: 115-138 erty. The original landscape had only a 3 Course rating range: 66.8-73.5 percent grade.

Cost (low and high season): “My philosophy is more of a ‘maximal$49-$149. ist’ rather than a ‘minimalist,’” Butler said. www.sewailogolfclub.com “I’m not afraid to move a lot of dirt and (520) 838-6623 shape as necessary.”

Once Sewailo’s basic design was roughed out, Begay developed a plan for fairwayand greenside-bunkers placements to force players to make risk-reward choices. The safer route adds significantly to the length of the resulting approach shot or putt, Begay said.

Water comes into play on half the holes, including the 638-yard, double-dogleg 10th, which plays uphill and requires the tee shot to skirt a lake. The second shot must clear a boulder-strewn creek and a massive fairway bunker complex.

“My contention is that golf should be fair (and) that 20-handicappers should get a chance at birdie three or four times during the round,” Begay said. “Certain other holes should require you to hit a golf shot.”

Begay added a 22,100-square-foot double green shared by Nos. 1 and 8 – a design element he first encountered during the 2000 British Open at St. Andrews. His personal favorite hole at Sewailo is the 155yard No. 3 over water for its photogenic qualities. The peninsula green is set in a low point on the property and is surrounded by lush mounds and a lake, flower beds and a cascading waterfall. With the casinohotel and the Catalina Mountains looming in the background, No. 3 embodies the vision of the “flower land” his clients desired, he said. www.golfoklahoma.org •••••• 27

Experiencing Streamsong Former phosphate mine now a links golf haven by ed travis The par-3 seventh hole on Tom Doak’s Blue Course at Streamsong.

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ontemplating a winter vacation to Florida? On the list areas of patchy scrub possibly unplayable.

Mosiac used three of the world’s best known designers to build of the “must visit” Sunshine State golf experiences (and in the opinion of many at the top) is Streamsong Resort, Streamsong with the Blue Course being done by Tom Doak and the other, the Red Course, by the duo of Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore. home to two unique world-class layouts.

Streamsong’s location is certainly not in one of the frequented Unlike many modern layouts these are not jammed in or confined as there was a generous 2,300-acres of land tourist areas. It’s south of the Orlando metro on which to build, part of the 16,000-acre area a good hour and half, over secondary roads through endless orange groves, and Mosaic used three parcel owned by Mosaic.

When Crenshaw, Coore and Doak were closer to Tampa and Saint Petersburg . . . but of the world’s best first looking over the site Red and Blue got not by a lot. So why with all the great golf in every other part of the state would anyone known designers to their names as the story goes, because early on as the trio marked a map indicating pobother to drive to one of Florida’s most outbuild Streamsong; Tom tential hole routings Doak happened to be of-the-way places to play?

The answer is simply, for the Streamsong Doak, Ben Crenshaw, using a blue pen and Crenshaw and Coore red pens. Since there didn’t seem to be any experience. and Bill Coore. need to add another “Cypress-something” Opening in January of 2013 Streamsong or “Palm-whatever” to the lexicon of Florida has caused a stir in the media and gathered courses the layouts remained Red and Blue. rave reviews from golfers despite not being Also, according to Mosaic, Streamsong golf will never played on Florida’s golfing main street. The site on which the courses were constructed is a spent phosphate mine that owners, The Mosaic through condo canyons. No housing will be built which leaves just Company, needed to remediate after 60 years of operations. Rather the alligators, the armadillos and the golfers to coexist in the moonthan bring in earthmovers to fill in the pits and deep blue lakes and scape look-alike terrain. A truly luxurious 216-room hotel with 12 level the mounds of sand the machines were used to simply smooth more guest rooms on the second floor of the clubhouse offer high quality accommodations and was booked upon opening in January out playing areas for golfers.

Overall the terrain suggests an inland links course or could double through May. The dining is first class with views of the dunes and as a moonscape, it’s that rugged. The green of the tees and greens is lakes some would call breathtaking but most everyone would conconnected by ribbons of fairways between conventional hazards of cede are awe inspiring. On the activities menu besides golf, guests sand and water but everything else is like nothing most golfers have may enjoy a nature trail that winds its way through the dunes, ever experienced. Fairways are not bordered with rough because swim in a lakeside infinity pool or relax in the grotto spa plus take Streamsong has no rough so really errant shots wind up in waste time to do a little bass fishing, play tennis or shoot sporting clays.

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The 12th hole on the Blue Course designed by Tom Doak.

Red and Blue are walking courses. Caddies are mandatory but in fact the majority of players use a golf cart…after all this is Florida. In some months it gets very warm and with 150-foot elevation changes up and down the dunes, the decision evidentially was carts had to be at least an option. Caddies are still a must though even if riding since there are almost no directional signs and there are stories of players becoming if not actually lost at least disorientated among the sand and lake topography.

From the first hole, either on the Red or Blue, the golf is probably unlike any you have previously experienced. Cart paths aren’t paved, they are covered with “reject rock” and are simply trails through the waste areas. Landing areas off the tee are generous to say the least, often 100-yards or more

wide, but don’t stray since even though the rough is nonexistent, brown and gray waste areas flank the green stuff making even finding a ball difficult.

Some of the water hazards require a fairly long carry so playing the proper tee set for your ability is important. However, the genius of the design is most of the “hazard” of the water hazards is visual not requiring an adrenaline pumping pro-quality shot. And should the driver and putter be behaving the round becomes both fun and memorable.

A good test for the quality of a golf course is, when walking off the 18th green to answer the question, “Would I come back here again?” For virtually anyone who experiences the Red and Blue at Streamsong the reply is an emphatic “YES.”

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The Iberostar Golf Club at Playa Paraiso Resort.

Sun, fun and golf Cancun’s Iberostar has it all covered But perhaps nowhere does the still-family owned company shine brighter than in CANCUN, Mexico -- After starting out as the Mexican golf hotbed of Cancun with a family-owned Spanish travel agency sev- its Iberostar Golf Club and Playa Paraiso eral decades ago, Iberostar has done pretty Resort, 30 minutes outside of this touristwell for itself, now running more than more heavy and golf-rich town.

The Cancun-Riviera Maya area already 100 hotels and resort in 16 countries.

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possesses the only PGA Tour event in Mexico at the Greg Norman designed El Camaleon layout hosting the Mayakoba Classic.

It also boasts the newly opened TPC-Cancun, plus a dozen public access courses along its sunny Mexican southeastern tip with architect names like Jack Nicklaus, Tom Fazio and Robert Trent Jones.

But when it comes to challenging golf mixed with the outstanding all-inclusive lodging, it’s hard to top the Playa Paraiso resort and its par 72 P.B. Dye-designed golf course.

The resort itself is made up of five different hotels, with a total of 2,000 rooms, addressing all different price points. But they all share the same access to the wide variety of restaurants, ice cream shops, water parks, shopping, entertainment, transportation, Caribbean Sea beach and, of course, golf course.

Golf is included in some hotel packages and is a nominal fee for others, but while the living is easy on the Cancun beaches, the P.B. Dye course can be a bit tougher.

Like his well-known father, Pete, P.B. makes this layout decidedly challenging with plenty of twist and turns through the tree-lined landscape.

Many of the greens are steeply mounded which can also make putting an adventure

as well. The course was selected in 2013 as the site of Big Break Mexico competition on the Golf Channel, along with a Canadian Tour event and Monday qualifying for the local PGA Tour tournament.

You can play the course as far back as 7,100 yards or as close as 5,800 yards from the forward tees.

Recently, the resort teamed with golf tournament industry veteran The Golf Connection to host the second annual Iberostar Team Championship Mexico, which brought pro-am teams from Texas, the Midwest and all over the East Coast for a three-day competition.

Large lakes come into play on holes 12 and 13, a par 3 and par 4 respectively and at least half of the holes are doglegged in some fashion, making ball placement off the tee critical and the free yardage book in each cart vital.

There is a small clubhouse stocked with plenty of golf balls if you left too many on the Dye course, along with rental clubs.

If you’re looking for a more stress free or less challenging golf experience, Iberostar also offers the Cancun Golf Club, near the downtown hotel zone. The par 72 layout was designed by Japanese golf star Isao Aokui and is a more straight forward resort

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Just be aware, there is an excellent reason there are large signs in the clubhouse and restaurants along with the course which read, ‘Aviso/Warning, Golf Course with Crocodiles.’ There are plenty of chances to see nature in its hungriest form on the course, especially on the back nine. Hunting for balls near the water or behind some of the greens can bring on golf hazards of a whole new kind.

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OU trainer, course rater has played 99 of top 100

Alex Brown as most OU fans know him, courtside at an OU basketball game. by john rohde

Raised in North Carolina, Alex Brown’s love for golf runs deep.

In 1980, the same year Brown moved to Oklahoma, he and his parents headed west to Las Vegas when Brown’s father, Clayton, mentioned how much he had always wanted to play Pebble Beach Golf Links. Somewhere in Arizona, Alex found a pay phone and dialed the 800 number for The Lodge at Pebble Beach.

“I called that number and asked if they had a room, and with a room comes a tee time,” Brown said. “They had gotten a cancellation … I got a room at the Lodge for $100 and two tee times for $30 each.”

(Today, rooms at The Lodge with an ocean view start at $1,000 per night, the green fees are $495 and it costs $30 for a non-guest to just rent a cart.)

That magical experience planted a seed for Brown, who has been the athletics trainer for the University of Oklahoma men’s basketball team since 1987.

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that helps save some money … It’s name. It’s a siren for me.”

Fact is, the entire country has been just fun traveling like that.”

Panelists score courses on seven cria siren for Brown, who is in his 12th year as a member of the Golf Digest teria: shot values, resistance to scorboard that determines America’s 100 ing, design variety, memorability, aesGreatest courses. “I’ve played 99 of thetics, conditioning and ambience. the current Top 100,” said Brown, To calculate a course’s final score, the who also has served for OU’s football seven categories are totaled, with shot program and the men’s and women’s values counting double.

Each category is rated 1 through 10, golf teams.

The lone omission is Augusta Na- with 10 being perfect.

“We’re told that we should give out tional Golf Club, home of the Masters.

“And I’ll probably never get to play that one,” Brown said, “so I don’t worry about it.”

John Herndon, who grew up in Ada and is now golf director at the Lake Las Vegas (Nev.) Resort, nominated Brown to become a panel member.

The application process Pine Valley was the site of Brown’s favorite round. took four or five months.

“They’re looking for low-handicap players who have an in- a 10 about as often as we make a holeterest in golf, golf course architecture in-one,” Brown said.

Though ratings are calculated from and who like to travel,” Brown said.

“The application process kind of gives the back tees, Brown said he tries to them an idea if you’re suited for what play from tees that are closest to 6,700 yards so he can hit from where pros they do.”

It costs nothing to be on the panel. might take their second shots.

“On a par-3, you might play from Then again, it also pays nothing.

“The only thing you’re allowed to two or three different tees because get is a complimentary green fee,” there are so many different angles,” Brown said. “That’s a nice perk. There Brown said.

Brown said there are roughly 900 are places I never would have gotten to play had I not been a member of the panel, so that’s a real bonus as well.”

Has Brown ever tried to estimate his out-of-pocket expenses since becoming a panel member?

“No, and I don’t want to,” Brown said, forcing a chuckle. “It’s always nice when you have some travel partners, and I do a lot of it with other panelists and With other raters by Payne Stewart statue at Pinehurst.

panel members nationally, with 15 (No. 46) and Plainfield Country Club ture or the wind chill is above my age,” from Oklahoma. There is no anonym- (No. 65). “If you play one of these Brown said. “Occasionally, on a 54-deity to being a panel member, but how ‘P’ courses, you will have had a great gree day with no wind, you might see day,” Brown said, “but you don’t have me out there if the sun is shining. If they rate a course is confidential.

“They want us to keep our ballots to be a ‘P’ to be one of my favorites.” you think about it, it’s a pretty good Brown began playing golf at age rule. I used to play in any conditions. anonymous,” Brown said. “You don’t share it with the club or other panel- 10 and is known for having a wicked Really, I’ve gotten smarter on that. I really enjoy those days ists.” when my bones don’t Brown’s window to creak when I’m swinging. evaluate courses coincides Playing those 100 greatwith the end of basketball est courses kind of gets season, which makes him your juices flowing, if you available from April to midknow what I mean.”

September. His love for Brown has had some the game is evident. It has very understanding bosstaken him a lifetime to play es when it comes to his 99 of the Top 100 courses golf habit and admitted: (not all rounds came as a “I’ve been pretty lucky on panelist). His favorite livthat.” ing architect is Pete Dye Former OU basketball and extends runner-up accoaches Billy Tubbs and colades to Ben Crenshaw, Kelvin Sampson are golf Tom Doak and Gil Hanse. fanatics, Current Sooners As for his favorite cours- Pebble Beach, one of the P courses that Brown cherishes. coach Lon Kruger owns es, Brown is partial to the letter “P,” listing Pine Valley (No. 1 in short game. He maintains a 3 handi- a 4.3 handicap and also is a Golf Dithe latest Greatest 100 rankings), Peb- cap and has peaked at a plus-1. Now gest panelist after being nominated ble Beach (No. 7), Pacific Dunes (No. 58 years old, Brown has a steadfast by Brown. Former OU assistant coach Mark Cline, an assistant at Marshall, 19), Prairie Dunes (No. 25), Pinehurst rule.

“I only play golf when the tempera- is a panel member from West Virginia.

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Golf to Dye For and get Jacked, feel like a King, and Jones over by bob stevens

The Robert Trent Jones Oceanfront course at Palmetto Dunes.

Shhhhh! Listen. Don’t hear anything on our quiet links at Hilton Head (S.C.), except the chirping of your feathered friends, or your fellow birdie-chasers?

Look around, everywhere, there’s challenging golf created by America’s finest golf architects, surrounded by natural seaside and marshland beauty of America’s first truly eco-planned community.

There is so much to savor, whether it’s the par-3 sixth at Oyster Reef playing out to Port Royal Sound, the par-3 17th at Harbour Town playing across a marsh to Calibogue Sound before you turn to face the iconic lighthouse on the signature 18th, the par-5 10th at the Robert Trent Jones Course at Palmetto Dunes playing out to the Atlantic, or the island holes on both the front and back nines at Old South, looking across the water back at the Island itself, Smell a Lowcountry boil and taste the fresh crab, oysters and other native delicacies before and after your round.

Feel the breeze coming off the marshes or the 12 miles of pristine Atlantic Ocean beach.

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the first time, or the 51st, or if you’ve decided to make the Lowcountry your permanent home course.

Idabel’s Gary Mixon had to have his “arm twisted” by his wife to make his first vacation trip east just over a decade ago.

“We’d always vacationed in the West. She wanted to go to Charleston and Savannah,” said the owner of Mixon Brothers Wood Preserving. “We had a weekend in between a week in each city and decided to spend it in Hilton Head and fell in love with it. It’s relaxed, not very formal. She likes the beach

and shopping and I like to play places like Harbour Town on the Island and Eagle’s Pointe just off the Island.”

Hilton Head IS the Golf Island. The two dozen courses on a 45-square mile island have hosted everything from the PGA Tour’s RBC Heritage every April to past LPGA and Champions Tour events, to college golf tournaments, USGA and other national amateur events, and even a fun celebrity/charity tournament every Labor Day weekend for the past three decades. There are nearly two dozen more layouts just off the Island that also offer classic southern charm.

Wonder what the pros’ top two places Oyster Reef Golf Club, a four-star Rees Jones design.

to play on Tour are? How about Augusta National and Hilton Head’s own Harbour Town Golf Links. And you and I only have access to a tee time at one of those top two.

In a recent survey of Tour pros, Harbour Town came out ahead of Riviera, Pebble Beach, Colonial and Muirfield Village in the players’ rankings of their “favorite” places to play.

It’s very family oriented, and I think a fun place,” says 2010 RBC Heritage champ Jim Furyk. “I enjoy coming…it’s got a different atmosphere about it. It feels a little more quaint, more like a little party than a huge bash, if that makes sense.”

It does, Jim. Brandt Snedeker, the 2011 RBC Heritage winner and 2012 FedExCup champ, agrees with Furyk. “It’s cool to go to a golf course that’s really old school . . . guys like seeing that,” Snedeker said. “When we do, guys tend to gravitate to it. When you’ve got something good, you don’t have to mess with it. I think it stands the test of time.”

Yet Hilton Head Island golf is no onetrick pony, not even if it’s one of Pete Dye’s most playable and entertaining courses. The developers of the private Long Cove Club, and later Colleton River, loved Dye’s design through the moss-draped oaks so much

The famous lighthouse hole at Harbour Town Golf Links. they had him design their award-winning layouts. And his re-design of the old Sea Marsh course in the Sea Pines Plantation three years ago into a completely different layout re-named Heron Point by Pete Dye, with elevation changes unseen anywhere in the Lowcountry, has received national design acclaim.

It is pretty clear that Hilton Head Island golfers, like their residents, love great architecture.

Designs on the Island, or across the bridge in Bluffton, by Jack Nicklaus (Colleton River, May River and Indigo Run’s two courses), Arnold Palmer (Crescent Pointe), Gary

Player (Hilton Head National and Dolphin Head), the famed Jones boys (Robert Trent Jones Jr.’s Oceanfront layout at Palmetto Dunes and Rees’ trio of courses in Hilton Head Plantation), Arthur Hills (with courses at Palmetto Hall and Palmetto Dunes), Ryder Cup Captain (and 5-time RBC Heritage champion) Davis Love III’s Eagle’s Pointe, the Fazio-designed courses at Belfair and Berkeley Hall and even the Fuzzy (Zoeller)designed Island West, offer a Rolodex of “name” choices for area players. And there are many who would put locally-based Clyde Johnston’s original work at Old South and renovations to numerous area courses

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up against any of those big names.

A Hilton Head Island golf vacation, or even including a couple of rounds in a beach-or-nature-centered retreat, is just that.

And an easy retreat to plan. All of the major beachfront hotels (and they’ve all been renovated in the last two years to the tune of over $200-million in upgrades) and villa rental companies can help plan your golf for you, and all of the golf courses can help you with stay-and-play packages as well—even at courses they don’t operate- all with just a couple of calls or e-mails. And all of them will help you find the best deal for two, or 102.

Golf in Hilton Head is a greater value than you might think. The Mixons have done their own homework, calling different realtors until they found one they use consistently now to rent a pet-friendly house for their stay, but possibly the easiest place to start your search is at www.hiltonheadgolfisland.com , which can link you to everything “golf” in the Lowcountry.

The Mixons drive from Idabel because they bring a couple weeks’ worth of items with them. Hilton Head Island does have its own airport and is less than an hour’s drive from Savannah and two hours from Charleston, two other great historic south-

ern cities waiting to be explored anytime. And with the area’s courses open year-round, you’re just a layer or two of clothing from comfort in any season.

After your round?

Hilton Head’s famous (or infamous) for its lack of street lights and neon signs (we want you to see the stars in our Carolina blue skies) and also its The 15th hole at the Oceanfront Course at Sea Pines. shortage of chain restaurants—preferring the personalized said.

The best news is that every season is golf flair and hospitality of local eateries, including a handful from Food Network names as season on Hilton Head Island. If it’s been awhile, you’ll remember it. Your senses will well known as the golf course architects.

What keeps the Mixons coming back is remind you what relaxation and rejuvenanot the changes on the Island, but the lack tion feel like. of change. “We’ve noticed more choices in Bob Stevens, former sports director at KOTV restaurants--good restaurants—but also the fact that our favorites are still here and now in Tulsa and announcer for PGA Tour Radio, we know how to get around,” Gary Mixon now lives in Hilton Head.

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Golfers tee off on the “Million-dollar hole” on the Slick Rock Course at Horseshoe Bay Resort.

Golf in Austin is a capital idea There’s a little bit of everything at these Central Texas golf resorts by steve habel

Sometimes it seems that the only people not in a hurry to move to the Texas Hill Country and Austin are those who have never visited the most verdant and vibrant region of the Lone Star State.

Austin is bustling and nearly bursting at the seams, with construction continuing at a fever pitch.

Recent statistics show that 70 people move to Austin every day, as the city has grown 2.7 percent in the past three years to about 842,000 citizens in the city limits alone. There are more than 2.5 million people in the Austin metro area, a number that’s expected to double by 2030.

Despite the growth, Austin still holds on to its small-city charm. Part of that appeal is the great golf options that the area offers, led by three of the nation’s top golf resorts – all within a 45-minute drive of the downtown sector and the gleaming Texas State Capitol building.

Barton Creek is the most well known and has been a top destination for decades. Following is a closer look at the other two major golf destinations in the area, Lost Pines Resort and Horseshoe Bay Resort.

Wolfdancer GC highlights package at Bastrop’s Hyatt Lost Pines Resort A trip to the fabulous Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort just east of Austin works to lull visitors into a splendid bliss, thanks to its call for serenity and relaxation and a feeling that you’re far off the beaten path.

The Hyatt Lost Pines Resort is two miles off the main road, but it feels utterly secluded, as it is surrounded by sleepy farms and the 1,100-acre McKinney Roughs nature preserve and set just across the Colorado River.

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A combination of the resort’s Texasthemed hotel, its lavish spa, an unmatched lazy-river pool and other environs creates a world of things to do that recharges one’s battery. But for the golfers in the brood, there are plentiful challenges that command and demand attention and precision.

Here, in these rolling hills and among stands of tall “lost” pines and along the banks of the Colorado River is the Wolfdancer Golf Club, a 7,205-yard, par-72 gem designed by Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest and Associates.

The track, which opened in June 2006, makes the most of the region’s terrain and natural beauty and occupies about 150 acres of the sprawling 405-acre Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort, located about halfway between the Austin airport and the town of Bastrop.

At Wolfdancer there are plenty of pines but there are even more ancient oaks, cedar elms and pecans. The trees impact your play, but not so much as you feel you’ll need an axe for your 14th club, as the sparse grouping – some of it naturally occurring, some the result of skilled selective-clearing – acts to keep you out of trouble instead of being punitive.

On many golf courses, an architect is lucky to have two desirable golf environments in which to create distinct golf holes.

At the Wolfdancer, Hills and Forrest had three: high prairie, forested ridgeline and a sparsely wooded floodplain along the river bank.

Most of the fairways at Wolfdancer are fairly wide and the approach shots can be challenging. There are lots of randomly scattered steep faced bunkers just waiting for your ball, and No. 8 sports the 15-foot deep “Big Mouth” that guards the fairway. The greens are large and undulating and kept quick but fair and in very good condition.

No. 12 at Wolfdancer is one of the prettiest and perhaps most challenging holes in Texas. The 155-yard, drop-shot par-3 featured a green that seems to cling to the side of a mountain and looks like a tabletop from the tee box, which sits atop a ridge with a 180-degree view looking down on the remainder of the course, the Colorado River, the entire resort area and far into the distant horizon. Be sure and bring your camera with you on the way up the steps.

But things change when you leave the 12th green and head down to the river valley below. The final six holes run back and forth in the flatlands that line the Colorado and cut through the old, broad-canopied oak, cedar and pecan trees.

Wolfdancer offers golfers five sets of tees to fit the round to their game, and the tips are rated at 76.1 and sloped at 137. The track has been lauded as the No. 6 on the Best Courses You Can Play” in Texas and is No. 56 “Top 100 Resort Golf Courses,” both by Golfweek magazine.

Away from Wolfdancer, relaxation is the modus operandi at the Hyatt Lost Pines Resort. The experience is highlighted by Spa D’jango, the resort’s full-service 20,000-square-foot spa and eight separate dining opportunities.

Recreational amenities include a water park with multiple pools, including a 1,100foot flowing river pool and water slide; Camp Hyatt children’s program, bike riding, equestrian program, kayaking, rafting and fly-fishing on the Colorado River, as well as more than 16 miles of hiking trails. The resort also offers more than 60,000 square feet of indoor function space and 230,000 square feet of outdoor function venues.

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Waterfall guards the sixth at Wolfdancer.

fresh – Horseshoe Bay Resort, established in 1971 on the south shores of Lake LBJ in the heart of the Texas Hill Country near the small town of Marble Falls.

The years have been kind to Horseshoe Bay and especially the resort’s three championship Robert Trent Jones golf courses.

Horseshoe Bay Resort is home to the largest golf complex personally designed by Jones, whose hand has influenced the shape of 10 former U.S. Open venues.

You’ll need all your skills to master Horseshoe Bay’s visually challenging offerings, many of which look harder off the tee than they really are.

The resort’s Slick Rock course, which sits south and east of the other two golf courses and was the first built, opened for play in 1972. It embodies the Jones philosophy of “hard par, easy bogey,” carrying a rating of 72.8 and a slope of 138. The front-nine is routed through colorful outcroppings of granite and a magnificent mixture of native oak, cedar, persimmon and pine trees, while the back-nine is open and gently rolling.

Slick Rock’s most famous hole is the 14th, called “The Million Dollar Hole,” which was added to the course in 1990. The hole, a slightly uphill dogleg-right 361-yard par-4, sports a winding cart path that takes golf-

ers on a ride through a waterfall that spans more than 35 yards and dumps more than 8,000 gallons of water into Slick Rock creek each minute. Don’t worry, you won’t get wet as long as you stay in your cart.

Slick Rock is considered the easiest and most forgiving of the Horseshoe Bay’s trio of courses and was chosen as one of the six best inland resort golf courses in the book “America’s Greatest Golfing Resorts.”

If Slick Rock is the sheep of the three courses at Horseshoe Bay, then Ram Rock is the mountain lion. The course, which opened in 1981, has earned respect for its toughness and as one of the stoutest tests of championship golf in the United States; Ram Rock has been named the hardest 18hole layout in the state of Texas and singled out as one of the nation’s outstanding golf courses by various publications and golf journals.

With narrow fairways, natural streams, plenty of water and sand, rock gardens, granite outcroppings, blind tee shots and all manners of trees, bushes and plants, Jones held nothing back to challenge golfers on Ram Rock. This is a roller-coaster ride of a course – you are constantly going up and down and from side to side – and sometimes just survival of the 18 holes seems like an

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challenges is Apple Rock, which was named “Best New Resort Course in America” by Golf Digest when it opened in 1985.

The par-72, 6,999-yard track is situated in high, rocky terrain with magnificent views of Lake LBJ. Using some of Horseshoe Bay’s most elevated and scenic land, Jones employed the natuThe 10th hole at Apple Rock at Horseshoe Bay. ral ebb and flow of the landscape along the hills and draws of the edge accomplishment.

Ram Rock, a par-71 layout playing to of the lake, framing his holes with native 6,626 from its back set of four tees, sports oak, elm and persimmon trees.

Horseshoe Bay Resort also offers golfers a rating of 74.5 and a slope of 140, features more than 60 bunkers lining fairways and an 18-hole, par-72 putting course (Whitegreens with water coming into play on 10 water) designed like a regulation 18-hole holes. One of the most noted holes – al- golf course, complete with fairways, bunthough every hole seems to possess its own kers, water hazards and the finest of putting type of challenge – is Ram Rock’s treacher- surfaces, just on a smaller (1,712-yard) scale. ous island green par-3 fourth hole, where Every shot is played with a putter, but unyou must accept the challenge of a 191-yard like a practice green, Whitewater is a fully carry to the middle of the green after ze- landscaped competitive course.

The 7,000 acre-luxury resort is the perroing in on a shallow putting surface surfect place to play, relax, meet or entertain, rounded by water and sand.

Ram Rock is not for the faint of heart. It as its luxurious accommodations include may be the beast in Horseshoe Bay’s beau- the 385-room Horseshoe Bay Resort hotel ties, but just take your medicine and learn that boasts 117 suites, the adjacent and recently renovated Paseo villas and 50 luxury to live with it.

A combination of the two other courses’ lakefront condominiums available for rent

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at The Waters at Horseshoe Bay Resort.

Visitors can rejuvenate in the full-service spa offering a wide variety of body treatments, massage therapy, facials and nail and salon services or make a splash in four sparkling swimming pools and play on constant-level Lake LBJ with personal watercraft and boat rentals at the marina.

Horseshoe Bay Resort also offers seven dining facilities, 16 adult tennis courts, three USTA-sponsored Andy Roddick Kids’ Tennis Courts and two fitness facilities, plus a private airport and jet center with a 6,000foot runway.

The “wow” factor at Horseshoe Bay is matched only up its luxury and the professionalism of its award-winning staff. There is something for everyone here. The Horseshoe Bay Resort is a real load of fun, no matter your specific tastes or the shape of your golf game.

For golfers, the appeal of the city and the region is obvious; the skies are clear about 300 days a year and one can hit the links in all seasons. In fact, Golf Magazine (through its web portal, Golf.com) named Austin as America’s top city for golf in 2008 and the courses that publication loved so much are even better now than they were then.

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Golf next door The Natural State Golf Trail by wayne mills

Avid golfers search the world over for their next golf destination. Sometimes, in doing so, they overlook great opportunities right next door.

Oklahomans might want to consider their easterly neighbor, Arkansas, and their Natural State Golf Trail for a high quality- excellent value vacation. Offering up some twelve outstanding golf venues in eleven locations sprinkled about the state along with other opportunities such as fishing, biking, hiking, boating, swimming, climbing and camping makes Arkansas a destination to please the entire family.

The course locations run the gamut from country farmscapes, to resorts, to residential areas and national parks; from the Ozark Mountains to the Mississippi River Delta but they all share outstanding characteristics in course design, course condition, level of challenge, playability, and conditioning of facilities, customer service and food service.

The first stop should be in the college town of Fayetteville, home to the University of Arkansas, which is less than two hours east of Tulsa. Plush accommodations can be had at the centrally located Chancellor Hotel, fresh off a $22 million facelift, which puts you right in the heart of the action.

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Oklahomans can get a little taste of home at Stonebridge Meadows Golf Club built on an old horse farm just outside of town. Tulsa native and OSU grad Randy Heckenkemper did the design honors for the Meadows family who were familiar with Heckenkemper’s work at Forest Ridge Golf Club in Tulsa.

The result is an enjoyable mix of playability and challenge through old pastures, up into the wooded hillside and back down with a great finish from the dogleg par 4-16th, the gorgeous par 3-17th over water and a strong par 5 finisher that makes you think on every shot.

A bit south of Fayetteville is Alma, home to Eagle Crest Golf Course an 18 hole layout designed by for PGA Tour Players champion Mark Hayes and a qualifying site for the Web.com Tours Fort Smith event.

Big Creek Golf and Country Club, winner of Golf Digest’s coveted five-star ranking nine years in a row, is a Tom Clarkdesigned gem in the Ozark resort/retirement destination of Mountain Home and not to be missed if you are in the area.

A bit south of Mountain Home, clustered around the massive Greer’s Ferry Lake, is a trifecta of courses that will satisfy any golfers yearnings. The recreational activities on Greer’s Ferry Lake are about endless and

there is world record trout fishing on the Little Red River.

Mountain Ranch Golf Club at Fairfield Bay, designed by well known architect Edmund Ault, is Ozark golf all the way playing longer than the 6,700 yards on the card with elevation changes of more than 80 feet in places.

Mountain Ranch has hosted five state championships and is ranked #2 in the state by Golf Magazine.

Next door is Tannebaum Golf Club, a tree lined roller coaster ride featuring the par 3-12th hole with its 130 foot drop down to an island green.

The Red Apple Inn and Country Club is a genteel low key resort located on an island in Greer’s Ferry Lake. The golf course is a 1960’s vintage resort style that would be a great round for couples. In addition the mellow atmosphere, outstanding food and impeccable service make for a pleasant visit.

Heading over toward the Delta region is Sage Meadows Country Club in Jonesboro, a semi-private club with Zoysia fairways, bentgrass greens and water on nine holes that was designed by the legendary and volcanic Oklahoman Tommy Bolt.

Club throwing there is optional.

Located atop Crowley’s Ridge, a unique landform in Northeast Arkansas, Village Creek State Park in Wynne is the home the newest course on The Natural State Golf Trail, The Ridges at Village Creek which opened in May 2012 and features 27 holes for play.

Further south in the historic town of Pine Bluff is where you’ll find the country hospitality of Harbor Oaks Golf Club featuring a weekday walking rate of only $22. Be sure to visit the Delta Rivers Nature Center and Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame, as well as festivals and concerts held year round.

For classic Southern charm there is no better place than Hot Springs Country Club.

Opened in 1898 and nestled in the Ouachita Mountains foothills, the Hot Springs Country Club offers two courses, The Arlington and the Park. The Arlington was recently renovated by former Masters Champion Ben Crenshaw and is a tight old school layout while the Park has a bit more room to maneuver.

To get the complete ambiance of Hot Springs the must stay is the classic Arlington Resort Hotel, a grand hotel in the old Southern tradition.

Located just outside Hot Springs, Glenwood Country Club is one of the top golf courses in Arkansas. Designed

by Bobby McGee (apparently somewhat after he was “busted flat in Baton Rouge” with Kris Kristofferson) and opened in 1994, the course was renovated in late 2010 and restored to its original design with new bentgrass greens and Bermuda fairways.

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Cedar Ridge Country Club

• Address: 10302 S. Garnett Road, Broken Arrow, 74011 • Par/Yardage: 71/6293 whites, 7513 blues • Course Rating: 77.6; Slope: 138 • Architect: Joe Finger • Year Opened: 1970 • Director of Golf: David Bryan II, PGA

• Superintendent: Mike Wooten, GCSAA-CGCS • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis, fitness center • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, short-game area, bunkers, learning center • Lessons: Tracy Phillips, PGA (director of instruction); three assistants • Email: info@crccok.com • Website: www.cedarridgecountryclub.com • Phone Number: 918-252-2505

Cottonwood Creek Golf Club

• Location: 18th and Carolina, Chickasha • Address: Box 1264, Chickasha, 73023 • Par/Yardage: 70/6109 • Course Rating: 69; Slope: 115 • Year Opened: 1915 • Head Professional: Charlie Randle • Green Fees: $16 (non-member) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, tennis, pool,bar and grill • Practice Facilities: putting greens, chipping greens, bunkers • Lessons: Charlie Randle • Email: cottonwoodcreek2@aol.com • Phone Number: 405-224-1250

The Coves Golf Club

• Address: 32922 Pebble Beach, Bird Island, 74331 • Par/Yardage: 72/6106 whites, 6502 blues • Course Rating: 71.7; Slope: 119 • Year Opened: 1985 • Director of Golf: Jim Gray • Head Professional: Jim Gray • Superintendent: Gary Wilkie • Amenities: golf carts, pro shop, snack bar • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Jim Gray; Zack Hamilton • Email: link on website

• Website: www.covesgolf.com • Phone Number: 918-782-3220

Dornick Hills Country Club

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: 519 Country Club Road, Ardmore, 73401 • Address: Box 1787, Ardmore, 73402 • Par/Yardage: 70/6102 whites, 6586 blacks • Course Rating: 73.4; Slope: 136 • Architect: Perry Maxwell • Year Opened: 1913, 1923 (back 9) • Head Professional: Steve Ramsey, PGA • Superintendent: Ed McKinney, GCSAA • Green Fees: $90 weekdays, $90 weekends (Passport holders, includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Steve Ramsey; one assistant • Email: dornickpro@cableone.net • Website: www.dornickhills.com • Phone Number: 580-223-2957

Duncan Golf and Tennis Club

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: 1800 Country Club Road, Duncan, 73534 • Address: Box 520, Duncan, 73534 • Par/Yardage: 71/6225 whites, 6601 blues • Course Rating: 70.8; Slope: 124 • Architect: Perry Maxwell, Floyd Farley (back 9) • Year Opened: 1921, 1950 (back 9) • General Manager: Mike Hansen, PGA • Amenities: golf carts, pro shop, restaurant, tennis, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Mike Hanson, Mark Budler • Email: duncangolfandtennisclub@yahoo.com mhansen05@yahoo.com • Website: www.duncangolfandtennisclub.com • Phone Number: 580-255-7706

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Elks Golf and Country Club

• Address: 13500 N. Acme Road, Shawnee, 74804 • Par/Yardage: 72/6122 whites, 6550 blues • Course Rating: 70.9; Slope: 120 • Architect: Perry Maxwell, Jerry Slack (redesign) • Year Opened: 1950, 1998 (redesign) • Head Professional: Jimmy Bidack • Superintendent: Jimmy Bidack, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool • Practice Facilities: putting green, bunker, practice area • Lessons: Jimmy Bidack • Email: elkspro1@gmail.com • Phone Number: 405-275-1060

Frederick Country Club

• Location: 1000 N. First St., Frederick • Address: Drawer E, Frederick, 73542 • Par/Yardage: 36/3120 • Course Rating: 68.5; Slope: 106 • Year Opened: 1930s • Director of Golf: Chuck Akin (GM) • Superintendent: Randy Doze • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, pool, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Phone Number: 580-335-2911

Gaillardia Country Club

• Lessons: Peter Vitali, Pat Bates; four assistants • Email: pvitali@gailla rdia.com • Website: www.gaillardia.com • Phone Number: 405-302-2810

Golf Club of Oklahoma

• Location: 20400 E. 141st St., Broken Arrow, 74014 • Address: Box 205, Broken Arrow, 74013 • Par/Yardage: 72/6796 whites, 7183 blues • Course Rating: 75.3; Slope: 141 • Architect: Tom Fazio • Year Opened: 1983 • General Manager: Jeff McCormick, PGA • Superintendent: Gary Hallett, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, tennis, pool, cottages • Practice Facilities: indoor driving range, putting green, chipping greens, bunkers, extensive indoor computerized teaching system • Lessons: J.R. Glover, Charles Gibson, PGA/ Suzie Fisher (PGA Director of Instruction) • Email: golfpro@golfclubofok.com • Website: www.golfcluboklahoma.com • Phone Number: 918-486-6579

Guthrie Golf and Country Club

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 5300 Gaillardia Blvd., Oklahoma City, 73142 • Par/Yardage: 72/6791 whites, 7255 blues • Course Rating: 76.9; Slope: 141 • Architect: Arthur Hills • Year Opened: 1998 • Director of Golf: Peter Vitali, PGA • Head Professional: Mark Fuller, PGA • Superintendent: Sean Hogan, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, restaurant, pool, tennis, fitness center, basketball courts, volleyball courts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping greens, four bunkers, short-game range

• Address: 3401 E. Oklahoma 105, Guthrie, 73044 • Par/Yardage: 70/6245 whites, 6454 blues • Course Rating: 71.3; Slope: 126 • Architect: Alex Findlay • Year Opened: 1900 • Head Professional: Joe Ruhl (GM) • Amenities: golf carts, pro shop, restaurant, pool, tennis, lake, full-bar • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Email: guthriegolf@coxinet.net • Website: www.guthriecountryclub.com • Phone Number: 405-282-1315

The Greens Country Club

• Address: 13100 Green Valley Drive, Oklahoma City,

73120 • Par/Yardage: 71/6060 whites, 6709 blues • Course Rating: 73.2; Slope: 136 • Architect: Don Sechrest • Year Opened: 1972 • Director of Golf: Brent Cryer, PGA • Head Professional: Brent Mistler, PGA • Superintendent: Andy Thibault • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, tennis, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping greens, bunkers, short game facility • Lessons: Brent Cryer; four assistants • Email: bcryer@thegreenscc.com • Website: www.thegreenscc.com • Phone Number: 405-751-7095

Hillcrest Country Club

• Address: 1901 Price Road, Bartlesville, 74006 • Par/Yardage: 72/6247 whites, 6601 blues • Course Rating: 72.1; Slope: 132 • Architect: Perry Maxwell • Year Opened: 1926 • Head Professional: Aaron Speaker, PGA • Superintendent: Matt Wilson, GCSAA • Amenities: golf carts, pro shop, restaurant, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Aaron Speaker; two assistants • Email: golfshop@hillcrestok.com • Website: www.hillcrestok.com • Phone Number: 918-333-0687

The Club at Indian Springs

• Address: 16006 E. 131st St., Broken Arrow, 74011 River Course • Par/Yardage: 72/6136 whites, 6932 blues • Course Rating: 74.4; Slope: 131 • Architect: George Fazio • Year Opened: 1967 Lakes Course

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www.golfoklahoma.org • Course Rating: 70.7; Slope: 119 • Architect: Perry Maxwell (original 9), Floyd Farley (second 9) • Year Opened: 1948 • Director of Golf: Rick Goddwin, PGA • Superintendent: Justin Gary, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping greens, bunkers • Lessons: James Hannah • Website: www.lawtoncc.com • Phone Number: 580-353-2073

Links at Stillwater

11th hole at Hillcrest CC in Bartlesville.

• Par/Yardage: 70/5526 whites, 5894 blues • Course Rating: 69.1; Slope: 126 • Architect: Don Sechrest • Year Opened: 1974 • Head Professional: Michael Boyd, PGA • Superintendent: David Jones, GCSAA • Amenities: golf carts, pro shop, restaurant, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping greens, bunkers, short game facility • Lessons: Michael Boyd; two assistants • Email: mboyd@indianspringsclub.com • Website: www.indianspringsclub.com • Phone Number: 918-455-9515

Lawton Country Club

• Address: 4601 W. Gore Blvd., Lawton, 73505 • Par/Yardage: 71/6066 whites, 6444 blues

• Address: 4599 N. Washington, Stillwater, 74075 • Par/Yardage: 71/5788 white, 6258 blues • Course Rating: 71.2; Slope: 126 • Architect: Lyndy Lindsey • Year Opened: 2005 • Head Professional: Blake Bergman (GM) • Superintendent: A.J. McGilbery • Green Fees: $35 (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, grill, pool, fitness center, tanning beds, hot tub • Practice Facilities: putting green, aqua driving range • Lessons: Blake Bergman • Email: stillwater.golf@lindseymanagement.com • Website: www.linksatstillwatergolf.com • Phone Number: 405-780-7167

McAlester Country Club

• Location: 1500 Country Club Road, McAlester, 74502 • Address: Box 1122, McAlester, 74502 • Par/Yardage: 70/5593 whites, 6073 blues • Course Rating: 70.3; Slope: 124 • Architect: Floyd Farley (second 9), Mark Hayes • Year Opened: 1911, 1956, 1999 (second 9), 2005 (rebuild due to vandalism) • Head Professional: Kelly Byrd, PGA • Superintendent: Stephen Fox, GCSAA

• Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Kelly Byrd • Email: wkbyrd@pga.com • Website: www.mcalesterproshop.com • Phone Number: 918-423-3599

Meadowbrook Country Club

• Address: 9300 E. 81st St., Tulsa, 74133 • Par/Yardage: 71/6261 whites, 6741 blues • Course Rating: 72.6; Slope: 131 • Architect: Press Maxwell (original 9), Don Sechrest (second 9), Jay Morrish/Carter Morrish (redesign) • Year Opened: 1948 • Director of Golf: Bobby Hadden (GM), PGA • Head Professional: Todd Kinnikin, PGA • Superintendent: Jason Judd, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, three hole par 3 course • Lessons: Corey Trammell, Todd Kinnikin; two assistants • Email: Golfpro1200@meadowbrookcc.net • Website: www.meadowbrookcc.net • Phone Number: 918-252-4122, 918-252-4121

Moore Golf and Athletic Club

• Address: 920 SW 19th St., Moore, 73160 • Par/Yardage: 72/6132 whites, 6789 blues • Course Rating: 72.4; Slope: 117 • Architect: Lyndy Lindsey • Year Opened: 1999 • Director of Golf: Jason Beauchamp (GM) • Superintendent: Jeremy McPherson, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, weight room, tennis courts, grill, pools • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Email: moore.golf@lindseymanagement.com • Website: www.lindseymanagement.com • Phone Number: 405-790-0264

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• Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis, health club/spa • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping greens, bunkers • Lessons: Tim Fleming; four assistants; Len Casteel, PGA Pro Emeritus • Website: www.okcgcc.com • Phone Number: 405-848-4344

Owasso Golf and Athletic Club

The fifth hole at Oak Tree National, site of the 2014 U.S. Senior Open.

Muskogee Country Club

Oak Tree National

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 2400 N. Country Club Road, Muskogee, 74403 • Par/Yardage: 71/6280 whites, 6665 blues • Course Rating: 71.9; Slope: 127 • Architect: Leslie Brownlee, Perry Maxwell (first redesign), Tripp Davis (second redesign) • Year Opened: 1924 • General Manager: Brent Anderson, PGA • Head Professional: Rip Ohley, PGA • Superintendent: Keith Callery • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Rip Ohley; two assistants • Email: brent@muskogeecountryclub.com • Website: www.muskogeecountryclub.com • Phone Number: 918-683-0291

Oaks Country Club

Oak Hills Country Club

• Address: 519 N. Country Club Road, Ada, 74820 • Par/Yardage: 72/6132 whites, 6581 blues • Course Rating: 72.1; Slope: 126 • Architect: Perry Maxwell • Year Opened: 1936 • Director of Golf: Nathan Johnson (GM) • Head Professional: Tony Pyrum • Superintendent: Erick Robinson • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis, bar & grill • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, bunker • Lessons: Tony Pyrum • Email: oakhills@cableone.net • Website: www.oakhillsada.com • Phone Number: 580-332-3762

Oak Tree Country Club PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 700 W. Country Club Drive, Edmond, 73003 East Course • Par/Yardage: 70/6493 whites, 7087 blues • Course Rating: 76.9; Slope: 139 • Architect: Pete Dye • Year Opened: 1981 West Course • Par/Yardage: 70/6270 whites, 6752 blues • Course Rating: 72.6; Slope: 129 • Architect: Pete Dye • Year Opened: 1983 • General Manager: Matt Beroth, PGA • Head Professional: Devin Davenport, PGA • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, pool, full-service sports center, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Devin Davenport, Chad Bakken; three assistants • Website: www.oaktreecc.net • Phone Number: 405-340-1010

• Address: 1515 W. Oak Tree Drive, Edmond, 73025 • Par/Yardage: 71/6424 whites, 7410 blues • Course Rating: 79.3; Slope: 155 • Architect: Pete Dye • Year Opened: 1976 • Director of Golf: Steve Kimmel, PGA • Head Professional: Jon Sandell, PGA • Superintendent: Josh Cook, GCSAA • Amenities: golf carts, pro shop, restaurant, grill • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Steve Kimmel, Jon Sandell; two assistants • Email: skimmel@oaktreenational.com • Website: www.oaktreenational.com • Phone Number: 405-348-2004

• Location: 6500 S. 49th W. Ave., Tulsa, 74131 • Address: Box 9339, Tulsa, 74157 • Par/Yardage: 71/6280 whites, 6802 blues • Course Rating: 71.5; Slope: 119 • Architect: A.W. Tillinghast, Perry Maxwell (redesign) • Year Opened: 1924 • Head Professional: Rick Reed, PGA • Superintendent: Dan Robinson, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers, short-game area • Lessons: Rick Reed; four assistants • Website: www.oakscountryclub.com • Phone Number: 918-446-5518

• Address: 13604 E. 84th St. N., Owasso, 74055 • Par/Yardage: 72/6132 whites, 7034 blues • Course Rating: 72.6; Slope: 116 • Architect: Lyndy Lindsey • Year Opened: 1999 • Head Professional: Mark Carey, PGA • Superintendent: Aaron Chissoe • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Mark Carey; Eric Norton • Email: owasso.golf@lindseymanagement.com • Website: www.owassogolfac.com • Phone Number: 918-274-4884

Ponca City Country Club PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 1101 N. Pecan Road, Ponca City, 76104 • Par/Yardage: 72/6045 whites, 6495 blues • Course Rating: 71.4; Slope: 126 • Architect: Perry Maxwell, Arnold Palmer/Don Sechrest (redesign) • Year Opened: mid-1920s • Head Professional: Dave Abbot • Superintendent: Doyle Brookshire, GCSAA-CGCS • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping greens, bunkers • Lessons: Dave Davis; one assistant • Email: ddavistccc@cableone.net • Website: www.poncacitycountryclub.net • Phone Number: 580-762-4413

The Patriot Golf Club

• Location: 5790 N. Patriot Drive, Owasso, 74055 • Address: 19201 E. 72nd St. North, Owasso, 74055 • Par/Yardage: 72/6721 whites, 7158 blues • Course Rating: 74.3; Slope: 130 • Architect: Robert Trent Jones II • Year Opened: 2010 • Head Professional: J.R. Glover, PGA • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, cottages • Practice Facilities: driving range, pitching area, putting green, chipping green • Lessons: Three assistants • Email: golfshop@patriotgolfclub.com • Website: www.patriotgolfclub.com • Phone Number: 918-272-1260

Oakwood Country Club

• Address: 1601 N. Oakwood Road, Enid, 73703 • Par/Yardage: 71/6694 whites, 7059 blues • Course Rating: 72.2; Slope: 121 • Architect: Perry Maxwell/Press Maxwell, Mark Hayes (redesign) • Year Opened: 1947 • Head Professional: Tim Mendenhall, PGA • Superintendent: Scott Brady, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, restaurant, indoor and outdoor tennis, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Tim Mendenhall; one assistant • Email: timmengolf@suddenlinkmail.com • Website: www.occofenid.org • Phone Number: 580-242-5408

Oklahoma City Golf and C.C.

• Address: 7000 NW Grand Blvd., Oklahoma City, 73116 • Par/Yardage: 71/6315 whites, 6861 blues • Course Rating: 73.2; Slope: 128 • Architect: Perry Maxwell, A.W. Tillinghast (redesign) • Year Opened: 1927 • Head Professional: Tim Fleming, PGA • Superintendent: Craig Elms, GCSAA-CGCS

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www.golfoklahoma.org • Superintendent: Adam Hess, GCSAA • Green Fees: $55 (Mon-Thurs), $65 (Fri-Sun),$45 senior (weekdays), $50 twilight (weekdays)(includes carts) • Amenities: pro shop, grill, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Chad Lamb; two assistants • Email: clamb@tour18inc.com • Website: www.tour18inc.com • Phone Number: 405-330-8220

Shawnee Golf and Country Club PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: 2501 Augusta Drive, Shawnee, 74801 • Address: Box 1574, Shawnee, 74802 • Par/Yardage: 71/6407 whites, 6851 blues • Course Rating: 73.3; Slope: 129 • Architect: Perry Maxwell, Bland Pittman (redesign) • Year Opened: 1930’s, 1998 (redesign) • Head Professional: Derek Claborn, PGA • Superintendent: Larry Taylor, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, restaurant, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping green, fairway bunker • Lessons: Derek Claborn; one assistant • Email: derekclaborn@pga.com • Website: www.shawneecc.com • Phone Number: 405-273-2764

Southern Hills Country Club

Tulsa Country Club, site of the 2014 NCAA Women’s Championship Quail Creek Golf and Country Club

• Address: 3501 Quail Creek Road, Oklahoma City, 73120 • Par/Yardage: 72/6464 whites, 6933 blues • Course Rating: 75.2; Slope: 140 • Architect: Floyd Farley, Golf Resources, Inc. (redesign) • Year Opened: 1961 • General Manager: Bob Philbrick, PGA • Director of Golf: Kyle Flinton, PGA • Superintendent: Mike Link, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, restaurant, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping greens • Lessons: Kyle Flinton; three assistants • Email: kflinton@quailcreekgcc.com • Website: www.quailcreekgcc.com • Phone Number: 405-751-4833

River Oaks Golf Course

• Location: 1 1/2 miles east of I-35 on Hefner Road, Edmond • Address: 10909 Clubhouse Road, Edmond, 73013 • Par/Yardage: 71/6305 whites, 6750 blues • Course Rating: 72.8; Slope: 132 • Architect: Andy McCormick • Year Opened: 1995 • Head Professional: Andy McCormick, PGA • Superintendent: Tom Dougherty, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, bar, banquet facilities • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, bunker • Lessons: Andy McCormick; Jim Young; two assistants • Email: link on website • Website: www.riveroaksgolf.com • .405-771-5800

Rose Creek Golf Club

• Location: 17100 Mulligans Road, Edmond • Address: 17031 N. May Edmond, OK 73003 • Par/Yardage: 72/6675 whites, 7048 blues • Course Rating: 75; Slope: 137 • Architect: Arthur Hills/Steve Forrest • Year Opened: 2003 • Head Professional: Chad Lamb, PGA

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• Location: 2636 E. 61st St., Tulsa, 74136 • Address: Box 702298, Tulsa, 74170 18 Hole Course • Par/Yardage: 71/6588 whites, 7150 blues • Course Rating: 76.8; Slope: 144 • Architect: Perry Maxwell • Year Opened: 1936, 2005 (redesign for 2007 PGA championship) 9 Hole Course • Par/Yardage: 35/3085 whites, 3293 blues • Course Rating: 71.8; Slope: 126 • Architect: Ben Crenshaw/Bill Coore • Year Opened: 1992 • Head Professional: Dave Bryan, PGA • Superintendent: K.D. Davis, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, restaurant, tennis, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping greens, bunkers • Lessons: David Bryan; four assistants • Email: dbryan@southernhillscc.org • Website: www.southernhillscc.org • Phone Number: 918-494-0001

Stillwater Country Club

• Address: 5215 W. Country Club Drive, Stillwater, 74074 • Par/Yardage: 70/5909 whites, 6524 blues • Course Rating: 72; Slope: 124 • Architect: Don Sechrest, Mark Hayes (redesign) • Year Opened: 1967, 2001 (redesign) • Head Professional: Chuck Coatney, PGA (GM) • Superintendent: Jared Wooten, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, restaurant, tennis, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping greens, bunkers • Lessons: Chuck Coatney • Website: www.thestillwatercountryclub.com • Phone Number: 405-372-8987

The Territory Golf and Country Club PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: RR 1, Box 218, Duncan, 73533 • Par/Yardage: 72/6673 whites, 7110 blues • Course Rating: 73.9; Slope: 126 • Architect: Randy Heckenkemper • Year Opened: 2003 • Director of Golf: Tim Johnson, PGA • Superintendent: Brad Babek, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, grill, golf carts, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, 3-hole golf academy • Lessons: Tim Johnson, PGA • Email: info@territorygolf.com • Website: www.territorygolf.com • Phone Number: 580-475-0075

The Trails Golf Course

• Address: 3200 S. Berry Road, Norman, 73072 • Par/Yardage: 70/6308 whites, 6602 blues • Course Rating: 74.2; Slope: 136 • Architect: Leon Howard • Year Opened: 1983, 2002 (front 9 renovation) • General Manager: Jim Hess, PGA • Head Professional: Alan Hager, PGA • Superintendent: Chris Randolph, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, restaurant, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping greens, bunkers • Lessons: Alan Hager; one assistant • Email: links on web site • Website: www.trailsgolf.com • Phone Number: 405-360-1920

Tinker Air Force Base Golf Course

• Address: Tinker Air Force Base, 6441 Arnold St., Midwest City, 73145 • Par/Yardage: 72/6033 whites, 6336 blues • Course Rating: 72.1; Slope: 121 • Year Opened: 1960 • Director of Golf: Jim Broughton • Head Professional: Mike Nagle • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Mike Nagle, Dan Johns • Email: cathy.clarkfleck@tinker.af.mil • Website: www.tinkerliving.com • Phone Number: 405-734-2909

Tulsa Country Club

• Address: 701 N. Union Ave., Tulsa, 74127 • Par/Yardage: 70/6231 gold; 6663 black; 7002 green • Course Rating: 74.9; Slope: 129 • Architect: A.W. Tillinghast, Jay Morrish (redesign), Rees Jones (redesign) • Year Opened: 1920, 1988 (redesign), 2013 (redesign) • Head Professional: Jeff Combe, PGA • Superintendent: Brady Finton, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Jeff Combe; one assistant • Email: jcombe@tulsacountryclub.com • Website: www.tulsacountryclub.com • Phone Number: 918-585-8719

Twin Hills Golf and Country Club

• Address: 3401 NE 36th St., Oklahoma City, 73121 • Par/Yardage: 72/6475 whites, 6905 blues • Course Rating: 72.9; Slope: 132 • Architect: Perry Maxwell, Mark Hayes (redesign) • Year Opened: 1923 • Head Professional: Kevin O’Brien, PGA • Superintendent: Jerry Broughton, GCSAA • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, restaurant, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping greens, bunkers • Lessons: Kevin O’Brien; two assistants • Email: link on web site • Website: www.twin-hills.com • Phone Number: 405-427-3947

Willow Creek Golf and Country Club

• Location: N.W. of I-240 & South Pennsylvania • Address: 6501 S. Country Club Drive, Oklahoma City, 73159 • Par/Yardage: 72/6084 whites, 6450 blues • Course Rating: 71.2; Slope: 126 • Architect: Ab Justice • Year Opened: 1952 • Head Professional: Justin Nard • Superintendent: Michael Breitigan • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, practice bunker • Lessons: Justin Nard • Email: proshop@willowcreekcc.org • Website: www.willowcreekcc.org • Phone Number: 405-685-7611

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Alva Golf and Country Club

• Location: 2 1/2 miles west of Alva on U.S. 281 • Address: 44483 Jefferson Rd. Alva, OK 73717 • Par/Yardage: 36/3334 • Course Rating: 68; Slope: 109 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1957 • Director of Golf: Ruby Hibberts (GM) • Superintendent: Josh Kerr • Green Fees: $13 weekdays (9 holes), $17 weekdays (18 holes), $20 weekends (9 holes), $25 weekends (18 holes), • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Email: agccok@yahoo.com • Phone Number: 580-327-2296

Arrowhead State Park Golf Course

The tree-lined fairways of Adams Golf Course in Bartlesville.

Adams Golf Course PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 5801 E. Tuxedo Blvd. Bartlesville, OK 74006 • Par/Yardage: 72/6370 whites, 6748 blues • Course Rating: 72.6; Slope: 127 • Architect: Floyd Farley, Mark Hayes (redesign) • Year Opened: 1963, 2001 (redesign) • Head Professional: Jerry Benedict, PGA

• Superintendent: Jody Shahan, GCSAA • Green Fees: $20 weekdays, $21 weekends; $7 juniors, $15 seniors/twilight (weekdays); carts (per person) $7- 9 holes, $12- 18 holes • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, bunker, chipping green • Lessons: John Bizik, Patrick Kertok; one assistant

Adams Golf Club ♦ 18-Hole Championship golf course that meanders along Turkey Creek and through the northeastern Oklahoma hills. ♦ State of the art practice facility.

• Location: U.S. 69, Canadian exit, 3.5 miles east • Address: HC 67, Box 6 Canadian, OK 74425 • Par/Yardage: 72/6325 whites, 6761 blues • Course Rating: 71.9; Slope: 124 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1966 • Head Professional: Jim Ramsey • Superintendent: Rocky Murdaugh • Green Fees: $20.42 everyday, $12 seniors (Mon.-Thurs.), $7 juniors (walk only); $11.58 cart (per person) • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, snacks • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, bunker • Lessons: Jim Ramsey • Email: Jim.Ramsey@travelok.com • Website: www.oklahomagolf.com • Phone Number: 918-339-2769

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PUBLIC COURSES Atoka Golf Course

• Location: 1 mile west of Atoka on U.S. 75 • Address: 220 City Lake Rd. Atoka, OK 74525 • Par/Yardage: 36/3031 • Course Rating: 34.5; Slope: 109 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1964 • Head Professional: Darrell Cochran • Superintendent: Darrell Cochran, GCSAA • Green Fees: $9 weekdays, $13.50 weekends, $9.00 cart (per 9 holes) • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Lessons: Brad Cochran • Email: dcochran@atokaspeedynet.net • Phone Number: 580-889-7171

Bailey Ranch Golf Club PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 10105 Larkin Bailey Blvd. Owasso, OK 74055 • Par/Yardage: 72/6261 whites, 6726 blues • Course Rating: 73.1; Slope: 132 • Architect: Bland Pittman • Year Opened: 1993 • Director of Golf: Corey Burd, PGA • Superintendent: Chris Cook, GCSAA • Green Fees: $44, $29 twilight, $25 seniors, $11 juniors (all rates include cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Corey Burd; two assistants • Email: link on website • Website: www.baileyranchgolf.com • Phone Number: 918-274-4653

Battle Creek Golf Course PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 3200 N. Battle Creek Dr. Broken Arrow, OK 74012 • Par/Yardage: 72/6703 whites, 7206 blues • Course Rating: 75.3; Slope: 134 • Architect: Bland Pittman • Year Opened: 1996 • Director of Golf: Dee Roadman, PGA • Head Professional: Jeremy Lamp, PGA • Superintendent: Will Heffernan, GCSAA • Green Fees: $45 (weekdays/weekends), $34 seniors (weekdays), $14 juniors (based on availability), $34 twilight (all rates include cart) • Amenities: restaurant with large patio area, banquet facility, pro shop, golf carts, GPS system • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Dee Roadman; Jeremy Lamp • Website: www.battlecreekgc.com • Phone Number: 918-355-4850

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Beaver Pioneer Park Golf Course

• Location: U.S. 270/Oklahoma 23 north of Beaver • Address: Box 1214 Beaver, OK 73932 • Par/Yardage: 36/2760 • Course Rating: 69.9; Slope: 128 • Year Opened: 1978 • Head Professional: Ned Kygar (GM) • Superintendent: Ned Kygar • Green Fees: $20 all day, $5 students • Amenities: golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Ned Kygar • Website: www.pioneerparkgolfcourse.com • Phone Number: 580-625-3633

Blackmer Municipal Golf Course • Address: West Panhandle Street Hooker, OK • Par/Yardage: 36/3300 • Course Rating: 69; Slope: 107 • Director of Golf: David Gibler (GM) • Green Fees: $10 weekdays, $12 weekends • Amenities: clubhouse, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Phone Number: 580-652-2856

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PUBLIC COURSES Blackwell Golf Course

• Address: 333 Country Club Lane Blackwell, OK 74631 • Par/Yardage: 71/6273 • Course Rating: 69.9; Slope: 124 • Architect: Perry Maxwell • Year Opened: 1930s • Head Professional: Nick Stuart (GM) • Superintendent: Keith Peterson • Green Fees: $10 weekdays and $15 on weekends,$6 carts(9 holes) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: contact pro shop • Email: blkgolf@4grc.com • Phone Number: 580-363-1228

Boiling Springs PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: Oklahoma 34C, 4.5 miles NE of Woodward • Address: 5283 HWY 34C, Woodward, OK 73801 • Par/Yardage: 71/6510 • Course Rating: Slope-Renovated course hasn’t been rated • Architect: Don Sechrest. Redesign Jeff Blume, 2013 • Year Opened: 1979 • Superintendent: Ben Zollinger, GCSGAA • Green Fees: $25-30, season dependent • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Website: www.woodwardtourism.com, www.boilingspringsgolfclub.com, www.visitwoodward.com • Phone Number: 580-256-1206

Brent Bruehl Memorial Golf Course PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: 1400 Chandler Rd., Purcell • Address: 230 W. Main Purcell, OK 73080 • Par/Yardage: 71/5797 whites, 6328 blues • Course Rating: 70.2; Slope: 116 • Architect: Mike Gowens (back 9) • Year Opened: 1922

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www.golfoklahoma.org • Head Professional: Mike Gowens, PGA • Superintendent: Alan Wilson • Green Fees: $22; $10 juniors, $15 seniors • Amenities: clubhouse, pro shop, golf carts, snacks, tennis, pool, RV parking access • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Mike Gowens • Email: purgolf@purcellok.net • Website: www.purcellgolfcourse.com • Phone Number: 405-527-5114

Brier Creek Golf Course

• Address: 1304 N.W. Country Club Drive Stigler, OK 74462 • Par/Yardage: 35-36/2855 whites, 2885 blues • Course Rating: 68; Slope: 124 • Year Opened: 1969 • Head Professional: TBD • Green Fees: $20 all day, $20 cart • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Phone Number: 918-967-8225

Bristow Golf and Country Club

• Location: Country Club Drive west of Bristow Lake • Address: Box 986 Bristow, OK 74010 • Par/Yardage: 72/5507 whites, 6247 blues • Course Rating: 71.2; Slope: 126 • Architect: Perry Maxwell • Year Opened: 1923 • Head Professional: Sheila Schroeder (GM) • Superintendent: James Cronister, GCSAA • Green Fees: $30 (18 holes ) weekdays, $17 (9 holes) weekdays, $35 (18 holes) weekends, $20 (9 holes) weekends (all rates include cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, sports grill • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: contact pro shop • Email: cronigolf@tulsaconnect.com; slsgolf4me@live.com

• Website: www.bristowcc.com • Phone Number: 918-367-5156

Broadmoore Golf Course

• Address: 500 Willow Pine Drive Moore, OK 73160 • Par/Yardage: 71/6196 whites, 6478 blues • Course Rating: 68.5; Slope: 102 • Head Professional: Jim McGowan • Superintendent: Brent Krueger • Green Fees: $18 weekdays, $20 weekends, $11 seniors (weekdays), $16.50 twilight (weekdays), $15 military • Amenities: limited pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Vaughn Berry • Email: broadmooregolf@gmail.net • Phone Number: 405-794-1529

Brookside Golf Course

• Address: 9016 S. Shields Blvd. Oklahoma City, OK 73160 • Par/Yardage: 35/2543 • Architect: Perry Maxwell, Floyd Farley (redesign) • Year Opened: 1930s • Head Professional: Jim McGowan • Superintendent: Brent Krueger • Green Fees: $18 (18 holes), $13 (9 holes) weekdays and weekends • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Vaughn Berry • Email: contact pro shop • Phone Number: 405-632-9666

Buncombe Creek Golf Course

• Address: HC 71, Box 192B Kingston, OK 73439 • Par/Yardage: 36/3024 blues, 2762 whites • Course Rating: 69.4; Slope: 114 • Architect: John O’Steen • Year Opened: 2001 • Head Professional: John O’Steen (GM) • Superintendent: Sue Brumley

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www.golfoklahoma.org • Green Fees: $10 weekdays (m-th), $15 weekends (f-sun), $10 twilight (weekends only after 2pm); $5 cart (per 9 holes per person) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: contact pro shop • Website: www.buncolmbecreekgolf.com • Phone Number: 580-564-1260

Canyons at Blackjack Ridge PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 1801 N. McKinley Sand Springs, OK 74063 • Par/Yardage: 71/5799 whites, 6133 blues • Course Rating: 69.5; Slope: 125 • Architect: Floyd Farley, Randy Heckenkemper (redesign) • Year Opened: 1955, 1996 (redesign) • Director of Golf: Brian Talley, PGA; • Head Professional: Ben Benton, PGA • Superintendent: Ben Martin, GCSAA • Green Fees: $34 weekdays, $39 weekends, $25 seniors, $10 juniors, $26 super twilight, $28 regular twilight • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Brian Talley; one assistant • Email: bctalle@sandspringsok.org • Website: www.thecanyonsatblackjackridge.com • Phone Number: 918-246-2606

Cedar Creek State Park Golf Course

• Location: 15 miles north of Broken Bow, off U.S. 259 • Address: Box 10 Broken Bow, OK 74728 • Par/Yardage: 72/6239 whites, 6582 blues • Course Rating: 72.3; Slope: 125 • Architect: Ken Farley/Art Proctor • Head Professional: Kurt Adams (GM) • Superintendent: Kurt Adams, GCSAA • Green Fees: $35, $17 juniors, $27 seniors, $25 twilight (after 3pm) (all rates include cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snacks, Lake View Lodge nearby

with boating, fishing, hiking; close to Beavers Bend State Park • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Email: cedarcreek@oklahomagolf.com • Website: www.travelok.com • Phone Number: 580-494-6456

• Website: www.cedarvalleygolfclub.com • Phone Number: 405-282-4800

Chandler Golf Course

• Location: Lake Road, 3 miles north of Chandler • Address: 870426 S. 3420 Rd. Chandler, OK 74834 • Par/Yardage: 36/3182 Cedar Crest Golf Course • Course Rating: 69.7; Slope: 111 • Address: 110 E. 136th North Skiatook, OK 74070 • Year Opened: 1972 • Par/Yardage: 36/2807 • Director of Golf: Gregory Wilson (GM) • Architect: Bill Gibson • Superintendent: Brent Helm • Year Opened: 1999 • Green Fees: $10 weekdays, $12 weekends, $5/$6 juniors • Head Professional: Steve Turner (GM) • Amenities: snack bar, golf carts • Superintendent: Steve Turner (GM) • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Green Fees: $15 (9 holes), $20 (18 holes) weekdays, $10 • Lessons: call pro shop (9 holes), $15 (18 holes) senior/junior, $10 (9 holes/18 holes) • Email: HORSEMAN339@aol.com tuesday/wednesday special (all rates include cart) • Website: www.cityofchandler.org • Amenities: pro shop, snacks, golf carts • Phone Number: 405-258-3068 • Phone Number: 918-396-0200

Cherokee Hills Golf Club

Cedar Valley Golf Club PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 210 Par Ave. Guthrie, OK 73044 • Par/Yardage: 70 for both/International Course - 5875 whites, 6520 blues; Augusta Course - 5847 whites, 6637 blues • Course Rating: International Course - 71.2/Augusta Course - 71.3; Slope: International Course - 111/Augusta Course - 115 • Architect: Floyd Farley/Duffy Martin • Year Opened: 1974/1972 • Head Professional: Jeff Martin, PGA • Superintendent: Gene O’bryant, GCSAA • Green Fees: $22 weekdays, $25 weekends, $18 twilight, $16 super twilight, $15 juniors/seniors (weekdays) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Lessons: Bo Martin • Email: link on website

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: 770 S. Cherokee St., Catoosa • Address: Box 515-B Catoosa, OK 74015 • Par/Yardage: 70/5849 whites, 6855 blues • Course Rating: 68.3; Slope: 117 • Architect: Perry Maxwell, Tripp Davis (redesign) • Year Opened: 1924, 2004 (redesign) • Director of Golf: Jeff Jarrett • Head Professional: Matt Harris • Superintendent: John Carothers, GCSAA • Green Fees: $50 weekdays, $60 weekends (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Brian Montgomery • Email: link on website • Website: www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com • Phone Number: 918-384-7600

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PUBLIC COURSES Cherokee Springs Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 700 E. Ballentine Road Tahlequah, OK 74464 • Par/Yardage: 72/6346 whites, 6814 blues • Course Rating: 72.8; Slope: 127 • Architect: Burle Berry • Head Professional: Tyler Crouch • Superintendent: Craig Carey, GCSAA • Green Fees: $18 weekdays (m-th), $23 weekends (frisun), $13 seniors, $10 twilight (m/th only), $6 cart for 9 holes (per person), $12 cart for 18 holes (per person) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Lessons: Tyler Crouch • Phone Number: 918-456-5100

Cherokee Trails Golf Club

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: U.S. 62, Tahlequah • Address: Box 948 Tahlequah, OK 74464 • Par/Yardage: 36/3244 • Course Rating: 71.7; Slope: 122 • Architect: Amon Baker, Tripp Davis • Year Opened: 1954, 2005 (redesign) • Director of Golf: Tim Livesay • Superintendent: Tim Livesay • Green Fees: $16 (9 holes), $22 (18 holes) • Amenities: pro shop, snacks, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Phone Number: 918-458-4294

Chickasaw Pointe Golf Club

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: 1209 Chickasaw Pointe Rd, 4 miles east of Kingston on Hwy 70 • Address: PO Box 1009 Kingston, OK 73439 • Par/Yardage: 72/5780 whites, 7085 blues • Course Rating: 75.6; Slope: 134 • Architect: Randy Heckenkemper • Year Opened: 1999 • Director of Golf: Ryan Chapman, PGA • Superintendent: Ron Gates, GCSAA • Green Fees: $47 weekdays, $63 weekends, $35 seniors, $10 juniors (including cart) (all rates include range balls) • Amenities: golf carts, pro shop, restaurant,Lake Texoma • Practice Facilities: putting green, chipping green, 50-station driving range • Lessons: Ryan Chapman; Paul Aycock; Eric Gaston • Email: ChickasawPointe@Pointe-Vista.com • Website: www.Pointe-Vista.com • Phone Number: 580-564-2581

Choctaw Country Club

• Address: 21723 Country Club Road Poteau, OK 74953 • Par/Yardage: 36/3221 • Course Rating: 69.6; Slope: 119 • Architect: Aaron Ridenour • Year Opened: 1945 • Director of Golf: Jeff Tadtman (GM) • Superintendent: Scott Forsberg • Green Fees: $20 weekdays, $25 weekends, $15 cart (per person) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, pool • Practice Facilities: putting green, driving range • Lessons: contact pro shop • Email: proshop@choctawcountryclub.com • Website: www.choctawcountryclub.com • Phone Number: 918-647-3488

Choctaw Creek Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 2200 N. Hiwassee Choctaw, OK 73020 • Par/Yardage: 71/6012 whites, 6452 blues • Course Rating: 71.2; Slope: 118 • Architect: Tom Billings • Year Opened: 1989 • Head Professional: Scott Donovan, PGA • Green Fees: $20 weekdays, $21 weekends, $6 juniors, $17 seniors (50-61), $15 super seniors (62+), $11 carts • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, restaurant • Practice Facilities: driving range, covered driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Scott Donovan, PGA

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Cimarron National Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 500 Duffy’s Way Guthrie, OK 73044 Cimarron National • Par/Yardage: 71/5867 whites, 6468 blues • Course Rating: 68.1; Slope: 120 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1992 Aqua Canyon Course • Par/Yardage: 70/5864 whites, 6415 blues • Course Rating: 69.6; Slope: 114 • Architect: Duffy Martin • Year Opened: 1994 • Head Professional: Marty Colbert, PGA • Superintendent: Gene O’Bryant, GCSAA • Green Fees: $34 weekdays, $37 weekends, $27 seniors, $30 twilight, $28 super twilight (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Lessons: Bo Martin • Email: cimarron500@msn.com • Website: www.cimarronnational.com • Phone Number: 405-282-7888

Cimarron Trails

• Address: 1400 Lovers Lane Perkins, OK 74059 • Par/Yardage: 72/6501 whites, 6959 blues • Course Rating: 73.7; Slope: 122 • Architect: Kevin Benedict • Year Opened: 1994 • Head Professional: Tucker Roderick (GM) • Superintendent: Trevor Clinesmith • Green Fees: $31.05 weekdays, $36 weekends, $10.83 juniors (weekdays), $25 seniors (weekdays) (includes cart)

• Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, banquet and conference room • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Tucker Roderick • Email: troderick@cimarrontrail.com • Website: www.cimarrontrails.com • Phone Number: 405-547-5701

Clary Fields Golf Club

• Address: 9999 S. 49th W. Ave. Sapulpa, OK 74066 • Par/Yardage: 71/6257 whites, 6774 blues • Course Rating: 72.7; Slope: 125 • Architect: Tripp Davis • Year Opened: 2000 • Head Professional: Tomas Hnizdo, PGA • Green Fees: $34 Weekdays, $39 Weekends, $27 seniors/ juniors Mon-Fri, $27 twilight (includes cart) • Amenities: clubhouse, banquet room, event center for weddings, receptions, parties, pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, full-service bar • Practice Facilities: driving range, short-game area, putting green, bunker • Lessons: Tomas Hnizdo • Email: tomas@pga.com • Website: www.claryfields.com • Phone Number: 918-248-4080

Cobblestone Creek Golf Course

• Address: 700 E. Smith Ferry Road Muskogee, OK 74403 • Par/Yardage: 72/6465 whites, 6936 blues • Course Rating: 74; Slope: 127 • Architect: Jerry Slack • Year Opened: 1997 • Director of Golf: Dick Scott • Green Fees: $30 weekdays, $35 weekends, $25 seniors (weekdays), $30 seniors (weekends), $24 twilight (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping

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Coffee Creek Golf Club

• Address: 4000 N. Kelly Ave. Edmond, OK 73003 • Par/Yardage: 70/6076 whites, 6624 blues • Course Rating: 72.1; Slope: 125 • Year Opened: 1991 • Director of Golf: Andy McCormick, PGA • Head Professional: Tim Graves, PGA • Superintendent: Tom Daugherty, GCSAA • Green Fees: $39.50 Mon-Thurs, $44.50 Fri-Sun, $9 juniors (limited times), $28.50 seniors with cart (Mon-Thurs), $30 twilight (including cart) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, Graves Golf School • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker, indoor teaching facility • Lessons: Kevin Robinson, Tosh Hayes, Matthew Conine, Jim Young • Email: ccgolfpro@coxinet.net • Website: www.coffeecreekgolfclub.com (tee times) • Phone Number: 405-340-4653

Comanche Golf Course

• Location: Oklahoma 53B, 4 miles east of Comanche • Address: HC 64 Comanche, OK 73259 • Par/Yardage: 36/3029 • Course Rating: 35; Slope: 108 • Year Opened: 1968 • Head Professional: Rudy Smith • Superintendent: Jim Nelson • Green Fees: $10 weekdays, $12 weekends • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, snacks • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: by appointment • Phone Number: 580-439-8879

Crimson Creek Golf Club

• Address: 801 Babcock Drive El Reno, OK 73036 • Par/Yardage: 72/6490 whites, 6997 blues • Course Rating: 74; Slope: 127 • Architect: P.B. Dye • Year Opened: 1998 • Head Professional: Chrisara Halsey (GM) • Superintendent: Charles Tiede III, GCSAA • Green Fees: $31 weekdays, $36 weekends, $25 seniors (weekdays) (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, clubhouse, bar • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: contact pro shop • Email: crimsoncreekgolf@hotmail.com • Website: crimsoncreekgolf.com • Phone Number: 405-422-4653

Cushing Country Club

• Location: 4615 E. Ninth Street, 2 miles SE of Cushing • Address: Box 1070 Cushing, OK 74023 • Par/Yardage: 70/5719 whites, 6066 blues • Course Rating: 68.8; Slope: 123 • Architect: Perry Maxwell, Labron Harris (redesign) • Year Opened: 1920, 1975 (redesign) • Head Professional: Lance Tate

• Superintendent: Jason Faires • Green Fees: $20 weekdays, $25 weekends • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, pool, tennis, fishing lake • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Lance Tate • Email: cushingcountrycluboffice@yahoo.com • Website: www.cushingcountryclub.org • Phone Number: 918-225-6734

Deer Valley Golf Club

• Address: 1 Pioneer Court Kansas, OK 74347 • Par/Yardage: 33/2293 • Course Rating: 62.2; Slope: 108 • Year Opened: 1984 • Head Professional: Mark Ragland • Superintendent: Mark Baker, GCSAA • Green Fees: $15 weekdays, $18 weekends/holidays, $10 seniors (weekdays) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, tennis, pool, restaurant, weight room, putt-putt • Email: flint99@sstellco.com • Website: www.flintridgeok.com • Phone Number: 918-597-3636

Doby Springs Golf Course

• Location: U.S. 64, 8 miles west, 2 miles north of Buffalo • Address: Box 167 Buffalo, OK 73834 • Par/Yardage: 36/2985 • Course Rating: 68.7; Slope: 114 • Year Opened: 1975 • Superintendent: Colby Baird • Green Fees: $10 weekdays, $15 weekends • Amenities: limited pro shop, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Phone Number: 580-735-2654

Drumright Golf Club

• Location: Oklahoma 33, 1 mile west of Drumright • Address: 9210 E. Main Drumright, OK 74030 • Par/Yardage: 36/3195 • Course Rating: 72; Slope: 123 • Year Opened: 1938 • Director of Golf: Leroy Welch • Superintendent: Troy Scott • Green Fees: $12, 12 and under free, $8 cart (9 holes), $14 cart (18 holes) • Amenities: snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green, chipping green • Lessons: contact pro shop • Phone Number: 918-352-9424

Eagle Crest Golf Course

• Address: 4301 Border Ave. Muskogee, OK 74401 • Par/Yardage: 72/5922 whites, 6506 blues • Course Rating: 69.7; Slope: 119 • Architect: Larry Keese • Year Opened: 1988 • Superintendent: Chris Douglas • Green Fees: $24 weekdays/weekends, $22/$24 twilight (weekdays/weekends) (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Email: eaglecrestgc@verizon.net • Phone Number: 918-682-0866

Earlywine Park Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 11600 S. Portland Oklahoma City, OK 73170 North Course • Par/Yardage: 72/6176 whites, 6721 blues • Course Rating: 71.9; Slope: 126 • Architect: Randy Heckenkemper • Year Opened: 1993 South Course • Par/Yardage: 70/6065 whites, 6505 blues • Course Rating: 71; Slope: 119 • Architect: Floyd Farley, Mark Hayes (redesign) • Year Opened: 1976 • Director of Golf: Dan Langford Jr., PGA • Head Professional: Ben Baker, PGA • Superintendent: Jerry Cusak, GCSAA-OGCSA • Green Fees: $25, $15.25 seniors (weekdays), $6.75 juniors, $20.50 twilight, $15.75 dusk • Amenities: golf shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Ben Baker; three assistants • Website: www.okcgolf.com • Phone Number: 405-691-1727

Elk City Golf and Country Club

• Address: 108 Lakeridge Road Elk City, OK 73644 • Par/Yardage: 71/5500 whites, 6179 blues • Course Rating: 69.4; Slope: 115 • Architect: Don Sechrest (redesign) • Year Opened: 1951, 1980 (redesign) • Head Professional: Alex Alvarez, PGA • Superintendent: Ed Hughes, GCSAA • Green Fees: $20 weekdays, $25 weekends, $12 twilight, $20 cart • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Alex Alvarez • Email: elkcitygolf@live.com • Website: www.elkcitygolf.com • Phone Number: 580-225-5454

Emerald Falls Golf Club

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: Broken Arrow • Address: 30510 E. 305th East Ave. Broken Arrow, OK 74014 • Par/Yardage: 72/6367 whites, 7148 blues • Course Rating: 75.6; Slope: 140 • Architect: Jerry Slack • Year Opened: 2007 • Director of Golf: Jonathan Beaver, PGA • Superintendent: Tim Schaefer, GCSAA • Green Fees: $49.50 Mon-Thur, $55 Fri-Sun, $44.50/47.50 seniors, $30 twilight (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant and snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, practice fairway, bunker, chipping and putting greens • Lessons: Jonathan Beaver, Kaleb Harris • Email: proshop@emeraldfalls.com • Website: www.emeraldfalls.com • Phone Number: 918-806-6563

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Fairfax Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 4001 Fairfax Dr. Edmond, OK 73034 • Par/Yardage: 70/6100 whites, 6610 blues • Course Rating: 73.6; Slope: 131 • Year Opened: 1999 • Director of Golf: Jeff Tucker, PGA • Head Professional: Davis Drury, PGA • Superintendent: John Burright, GCSAA • Green Fees: Call for pricing • Amenities: golf carts, pro shop, restaurant • Practice Facilities: putting green, driving range • Lessons: Jeff Tucker, Mike Wendling, Davis Drury • Email: fairfaxgolf@gmail.com • Website: www.fairfaxgolf.com • Phone Number: 405-359-8333

Fairview Lakeside Golf Course - Closed until further notice • Location: 2 miles north, 3 miles west of Longdale • Address: Route 1, Box 107 Longdale, OK 73755 • Par/Yardage: 35/3215 • Course Rating: 69; Slope: 112 • Year Opened: 1947 • Head Professional: Perry Johnson (owner) • Superintendent: Perry Johnson • Green Fees: $5 (9 holes), $10 (18 holes) • Amenities: pro shop, snacks, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Email: perry@fairviewlakesidegolfcourse.net • Website: www.fairviewlakesidegolfcourse.net • Phone Number: 580-227-3225

Falconhead Resort

• Address: 605 Falconhead Drive Burneyville, OK 73430 • Par/Yardage: 72/6079 whites, 6504 blues • Course Rating: 72.5; Slope: 133 • Architect: Waco Turner • Year Opened: 1960

• Head Professional: David Pool, PGA • Superintendent: Terry Durst • Green Fees: $30 weekdays, $40 weekends (includes cart), $25/$35 senior (weekday/weekend), $13 juniors • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, tennis, pool, motel, cabins • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: David Pool • Email: barbara@falconhead.org • Website: www.falconheadgolf.com • Phone Number: 580-276-9284

Firelake Golf Course

• Address: 1601 S. Gordon Cooper Drive Shawnee, OK 74801 • Par/Yardage: 70/5670 whites, 6335 blues • Course Rating: 69.6; Slope: 121 • Year Opened: 1979 • Director of Golf: Chris Chesser • Superintendent: Derron Day • Green Fees: $18; $13 juniors/seniors/twilight (weekdays), $5 cart (9 holes), $10 cart (18 holes) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Lessons: Chris Chesser • Email: cchesser@potawatomi.org • Website: www.potawatomi.org • Phone Number: 405-275-4471

Forest Ridge Golf Club

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 7501 E. Kenosha Broken Arrow, OK 74014 • Par/Yardage: 72/6414 blue, 7083 green • Course Rating: 72.1; Slope: 132 • Architect: Randy Heckenkemper • Year Opened: 1989 • Head Professional: Lance Allen, PGA • Superintendent: John Babe, GCSAA • Green Fees: $60 weekdays ($45 with club card), $70

weekends ($55 with club card) (includes cart), $38/$30 twilight (weekdays), $48/$40 twilight (weekends); $125 club card; $100 senior club card • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, grill, banquet hall, pool, tennis, GPS • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, practice bunker • Lessons: Lance Allen, Brett Freeman, Steve Schweikhart, J.J. Belcoff, Chad Lawrence • Email: l.allen@forestridge.com • Website: www.forestridgegolf.com • Phone Number: 918-357-2443/918-357-2282

Fort Cobb State Park Golf Course

• Address: 27022 Copperhead Road Fort Cobb, OK 73038 • Par/Yardage: 70/6258 whites, 6620 blues • Course Rating: 72; Slope: 122 • Architect: Floyd Farley, Don Sechrest (redesign) • Year Opened: 1965, 1988 (redesign) • Head Professional: Ron Locke, PGA • Superintendent: Ernie Summers, GCSAA • Green Fees: $20.34, $7 juniors, $7.11 seniors, $11.67 cart • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Ron Locke • Email: fortcobb@travelok.com • Website: www.oklahomagolf.com • Phone Number: 405-643-2398

Fountainhead State Park Golf Course

• Location: southwest of Checotah on Oklahoma 150 (south of I-40, west of U.S. 69) • Address: HC 60 Box 1350 Checotah, OK 74426 • Par/Yardage: 72/6405 whites, 6919 blues • Course Rating: 72.9; Slope: 128 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1965 • Head Professional: Mike Wood (GM) • Superintendent: Tim Martin • Green Fees: $25 (9 holes), $35 (18 holes), $27 senior (M-

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Generations Golf Course

• Location: U.S. 81 South, Marlow • Address: Box 228 Marlow, OK 73055 • Par/Yardage: 71/5270 whites, 5780 blues • Course Rating: 67.1; Slope: 112 • Architect: Arthur Lee Schrock • Year Opened: 1960 • Head Professional: Doug Schrock (GM) • Superintendent: Doug Schrock • Green Fees: $10 weekdays, $15 weekends, $15 senior (T/ TH Only), $8/$10 junior, $15 twilight (weekdays only), $10 cart (per person) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range • Email: golfsupt64@yahoo.com • Phone Number: 580-658-3021

Gil Morgan Golf Course

• Location: 800 E. 7th Street, Wewoka, OK 74484 • Address: Box 1557 Wewoka, OK 74484 • Par/Yardage: 36/3225 • Course Rating: 71.3; Slope: 124 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1949 • Head Professional: Russell Bevelhymer • Superintendent: Russell Bevelhymer • Green Fees: $15 weekdays, $18.80 weekends, $10 cart (per 9 holes) • Amenities: golf carts, pro shop, snack bar • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Russell Bevelhymer • Website: www.wewokagolfcourse.net • Phone Number: 405-257-3292

Gordon Golf Course

• Address: 11755 E. 530 Road Claremore, OK 74019 • Par/Yardage: 30/1700 • Year Opened: 1998 • Director of Golf: Mike Hixson (GM) • Superintendent: Mike Hixson (GM) • Green Fees: $8/$18 weekdays, $12/$14 weekends/ holidays, $12/$18 carts weekdays (per person), $14/$20 cart weekends/holidays (per person) • Amenities: golf carts, limited pro shop, snack bar • Practice Facilities: driving range (lighted in summer), putting green • Lessons: Rick Chandler • Phone Number: 918-283-3333

Grand Cherokee State Park Golf Course

• Location: below Pensacola Dam, Langley • Address: Box 249 Langley, OK 74350 • Par/Yardage: 36/3133 • Course Rating: 70.1; Slope: 117 • Architect: Tripp Davis • Year Opened: 1999 • Director of Golf: Kevin Mallow (GM) • Superintendent: Kevin Mallow, GCSAA (GM) • Green Fees: $20/$30 weekdays (includes cart), $16/$22 seniors (Mon.-Thurs.), $20 twilight, $15.35/$19 juniors • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, snack bar • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Email: tammy.long@travelok.com • Website: www.travelok.com • Phone Number: 918-435-8727

The Greens of Altus

• Location: U.S. 62 east of Altus • Address: 20650 U.S. Highway 62 Altus, OK 73521 • Par/Yardage: 36/3253 • Course Rating: 69.8; Slope: 118 • Year Opened: 1952 • Head Professional: Jim Herron • Superintendent: Walt Duncan • Green Fees: $8 weekdays, $10 weekends • Amenities: limited pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green

• Lessons: contact pro shop • Phone Number: 580-480-0209

• Practice Facilities: putting green, driving range • Phone Number: 580-726-3534

Healdton (Oilfield) Golf Course

Hugo Country Club

• Address: 1200 Golf Course Road Healdton, OK 73438 • Par/Yardage: 36/3195 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1955 • Director of Golf: Bill Danbrady (GM) • Green Fees: $10 all day • Amenities: golf carts, snacks • Email: healdtongolfcourse@yahoo.com • Phone Number: 580-229-2520

Henryetta Country Club

• Location: RR 2, Henryetta, OK 74437 • Address: 30596 S. 216th Road Henryetta, OK 74437 • Par/Yardage: 36/3018 • Course Rating: 68.8; Slope: 123 • Year Opened: 1921 • Superintendent: Jimmy Cunningham • Green Fees: $11 weekdays, $13.50 weekends • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Phone Number: 918-652-8664

Heritage Hills Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 3140 Tee Drive Claremore, OK 74019 • Par/Yardage: 71/6082 whites, 6756 blues • Course Rating: 70.1; Slope: 129 • Architect: Don Sechrest • Year Opened: 1977 • Director of Golf: Dave Wilber, PGA • Superintendent: Jacob Gordon, GCSAA • Green Fees: $23 weekdays, $24 weekends, $15 juniors/ seniors/twilight, $13 cart (per person) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, shortgame area, bunker • Lessons: David Brun • Email: heritagehillsgc@aol.com • Website: www.heritagehillsgc.com • Phone Number: 918-341-0055

• Location: 2 1/2 miles off U.S. 271, south of Hugo • Address: Box 806 Hugo, OK 74743 • Par/Yardage: 35/3135 • Course Rating: 69.2; Slope: 118 • Year Opened: 1931 • Head Professional: Ricky Hunter • Superintendent: Ricky Hunter • Green Fees: $11; $11 cart (per person) • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, snack bar • Practice Facilities: putting green, chipping green • Email: hugogolfclub@gmail.com • Website: www.hugogolfclub.com • Phone Number: 580-326-6549

Idabel Country Club

• Location: 2301 E. Lincoln Road, Idabel, OK 74745 • Address: P.O. Box 1881 Idabel, OK 74745 • Par/Yardage: 70/5131 whites, 6100 blues • Course Rating: 69.6; Slope: 119 • Architect: Pittman-Poe and Associates (back 9) • Year Opened: 1974, 1998 (back 9) • Head Professional: David Deberry (GM) • Green Fees: $13.75 (9 holes), $27.50 (18 holes) Mon-Thur, $33 Fri-Sun, $10 cart (9 holes), $20 cart ( 18 holes) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, tennis, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Email: sally@idabelcountryclub.com • Website: www.idabelcountryclub.com • Phone Number: 580-286-7545

James E. Stewart Golf Course

• Address: 824 Frederick Douglas Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73117 • Par/Yardage: 35/3105 • Architect: Randy Heckenkemper • Year Opened: 1999

Hidden Creek Golf Course

• Address: 3210 Bellaire Drive Midwest City, OK 73110 • Par/Yardage: 30/1947 • Course Rating: 57.4; Slope: 81 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1957 • Director of Golf: Larry Denney, PGA • Head Professional: Mike Greenly (GM) • Superintendent: Brian Lowrie • Green Fees: (9 holes) $9.48; $2.17 juniors, $6.97 seniors/ military • Amenities: snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green, chipping green • Phone Number: 405-732-9999

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Hilltop Golf Course

• Address: 21254 S. 349th E. Ave. Porter, OK 74454 • Par/Yardage: 35/2626 • Course Rating: 64; Slope: 104 • Architect: Don Sechrest • Year Opened: 1985 • Head Professional: Dwayne Moore (owner) • Green Fees: $15 weekdays, $20 weekends, $10 senior (T/ TH only) • Practice Facilities: putting green • Email: dwaynemoore@peoplepc.com • Phone Number: 918-483-9551

Hobart Municipal Golf Course

• Location: Iceplant Road, 1 1/2 miles south of Hobart • Address: Box 231 Hobart, OK 73651 • Par/Yardage: 35/3035 • Course Rating: 68.4; Slope: 106 • Architect: Robert C. Dunning • Year Opened: 1965 • Head Professional: Donald Burns (GM) • Superintendent: Donald Burns (GM) • Green Fees: $12/$18 weekdays, $14/$24 weekends/ holidays, • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, snack bar

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• Lessons: Darren Buttram • Email: keystonegolf@sbcglobal.net • Website: www.keystonegolfcourse.com • Phone Number: 918-358-2277

Kickingbird Golf Club

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 1600 E. Danforth Edmond, OK 73034 • Par/Yardage: 70/6282 whites, 6722 blues • Course Rating: 72.6; Slope: 118 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1973 • Head Professional: Brian Soerensen, PGA • Superintendent: Brad Jolliff, GCSAA • Green Fees: $22.50 weekdays, $27.50 weekends, $9.50 juniors (weekdays), $14.00 seniors (weekdays), $16.50 twilight • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: lighted driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Brian Soerensen, Jeff Klappenbach,Sydney Cox • Email: brian.soerensen@edmondok.com • Website: www.kickingbirdgolf.com • Phone Number: 405-341-5350

Kingfisher Golf Course

The Jimmie Austin University of Oklahoma Golf Course.

• Director of Golf: Edwin Flowers, PGA • Superintendent: Lewis Pugh, GCSAA • Green Fees: $9.75; $6.25 seniors; $2 juniors, $5 cart (per 9 holes per player) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Edwin Flowers, PGA • Phone Number: 405-424-4353

Jimmie Austin Golf Course (Seminole) • Address: 400 Fairway Drive Seminole, OK 74868 • Par/Yardage: 71/6349 whites, 6722 blues • Course Rating: 72.7; Slope: 129 • Architect: Tony Doudican/Jim Holmes • Director of Golf: Kevin Riggs • Superintendent: Craig Robinson • Green Fees: $32.75 (includes cart), $24.15 senior/junior (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Email: jimmieaustingc@sbcglobal.net • Phone Number: 405-382-3365

Jimmie Austin-Univ. of Oklahoma GC

• Address: 1 Par Drive Norman, OK 73019 • Par/Yardage: 72/6615 whites, 7410 blues • Course Rating: 74.9; Slope: 134 • Architect: Perry Maxwell/Press Maxwell, Bob Cupp (redesign) • Year Opened: 1950, 1996 (redesign) • Director of Golf: Rodney Young, PGA • Head Professional: Johnny Johnson, PGA • Superintendent: Cody Elwood, GCSAA • Green Fees: $66 Mon-Thurs, $86 Fri-Sun • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, locker rooms, GPS • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, pitching green • Lessons: Rodney Young; Johnny Johnson; Tyler Woodward; Sebastian Courtors • Website: www.ougolfclub.com • Phone Number: 405-325-6716

John Conrad Golf Course

• Address: 711 S. Douglas Blvd. Midwest City, OK 73130 • Par/Yardage: 72/6468 whites, 6854 blues • Course Rating: 72.1; Slope: 124 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1971 • Director of Golf: Larry Denney, PGA • Superintendent: Brian Lowrie, GCSAA • Green Fees: $21 weekdays, $22 weekends, $16 twilight

• Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Larry Denney, Mickey Lloyd • Website: www.midwestcityok.org/golfcourse.html • Phone Number: 405-732-2209

• Location: E. Bowman Road, Kingfisher • Address: Route 3, Box 3B Kingfisher, OK 73750 • Par/Yardage: 70/5742 whites, 6032 blues • Course Rating: 67.9; Slope: 112 • Architect: Tripp Davis • Year Opened: 1965 • Director of Golf: Gary Wilson • Superintendent: Shawn Barrent • Green Fees: $15 weekdays, $17 weekends • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Gary Wilson • Phone Number: 405-375-3941

Kah-Wah-C Country Club

• Location: 5 miles from stadium, off Oklahoma 18, Fairfax • Address: 220 S. Shaw Fairfax, OK 74637 • Par/Yardage: 36/2987 • Course Rating: 70.1; Slope: 121 • Year Opened: 1923 • Director of Golf: Bob Stephens • Superintendent: Jake Brown • Green Fees: $19 weekdays, $21 weekends/holidays (rates include cart) • Amenities: vending machines, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Email: bob_stephens@msn.com • Phone Number: 918-642-5351

Karsten Creek Golf Course

• Address: 1800 S. Memorial Drive Stillwater, OK 74074 • Par/Yardage: 72/6597 blacks; 7407 oranges • Course Rating: 77.2; Slope: 152 • Architect: Tom Fazio • Year Opened: 1994 • Director of Golf: Alan Bratton • Head Professional: Rob Land, PGA • Superintendent: Travis Levings, GCSAA • Green Fees: $300 (includes cart & range balls) • Amenities: pro shop, lodging, restaurant, golf carts, locker rooms • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting & chipping greens, bunker (access available after green fee) • Lessons: Rob Land, PGA; two assistants • Email: contactus@karstencreek.com • Website: www.karstencreek.com • Phone Number: 405-743-1658

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Keystone Golf Course

• Location: South Airport Road, Cleveland • Address: P.O. Box 289 Cleveland, OK 74020 • Par/Yardage: 36/3078 • Course Rating: 68.3; Slope: 105 • Year Opened: 1920 • Director of Golf: Darren Buttram • Superintendent: Darren Buttram, GCSAA • Green Fees: $10 weekdays, $13 weekends, $10 juniors • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, snacks • Practice Facilities: putting green

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PUBLIC COURSES LaFortune Park Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 5501 S. Yale Ave. Tulsa, OK 74135 18 Hole Course • Par/Yardage: 72/6416 whites, 6938 blues • Course Rating: 72.9; Slope: 124 • Architect: Floyd Farley, Randy Heckenkemper (redesign) • Year Opened: 1960, 2003 (redesign) • Director of Golf: Pat McCrate, PGA • Head Professional: Jeremy Dear, PGA • Superintendent: Ray Beard, GCSAA • Green Fees: $26 weekdays, $29 weekends, $14.75 seniors, $15.25 twilight, $11 juniors (ages 13-17), $8 youth (ages 12-under), carts $13 per rider Par-3 Course • Par/Yardage: 54/2461 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1962 • Green Fees: $14 standard greens fee, $11.50 seniors, $11 juniors (ages 13-17), $8 youth (ages 12-under) • Amenities: clubhouse, golf carts, restaurant, pro shop, pool, tennis, picnic tables • Practice Facilities: lighted driving range, putting green, chipping green, pitching green, bunkers • Lessons: Pat McCrate, Jeremy Dear; four assistants • Email: links on web site • Website: www.lafortuneparkgolf.com • Phone Number: 918-496-6200

Lake Hefner Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 4491 S. Lake Hefner Drive Oklahoma City, OK 73116 North Course • Par/Yardage: 72/6459 whites, 6970 blues • Course Rating: 73.8; Slope: 127 • Architect: Perry Maxwell, Randy Heckenkemper (redesign) • Year Opened: 1951, 1994 (redesign) South Course • Par/Yardage: 70/5931 whites, 6305 blues

www.golfoklahoma.org • Course Rating: 70.5; Slope: 123 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1964 • Director of Golf: Alsie Hyden, PGA • Head Professional: Ed Reinke, PGA; Shannon Friday, PGA • Superintendent: Chris Garrett, GCSAA • Green Fees: $27.09; $7.32 juniors, $16.53 seniors Mon.Fri., $22.22 twilight, $17.07 dusk fee, $15.17 cart (per person) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers, 3-hole par-3 academy • Lessons: Lee Cargile, Ed Reinke, Pat Jenkins and Alsie Hyden; six assistants • Email: lee@okcgolf.com • Website: www.oklahomacitygolf.com • Phone Number: 405-843-1565

Lake Murray State Park Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 2673 Lodge Road Ardmore, OK 73401 • Par/Yardage: 72/6094 whites, 6362 blues • Course Rating: 71.1; Slope: 126 • Architect: Floyd Farley, Art Proctor (redesign) • Year Opened: 1965 • Head Professional: Wesley Chaney, PGA • Superintendent: Denver Johnson • Green Fees: $20 Mon, $30 Tues-Thur, $35 Fri-Sun, $22 senior (M-Th), $10 junior, $22 twilight (M-Th)s (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, Lake Murray Lodge with boating, pool, fishing, tennis, basketball, camping, RV sites • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Wesley Chaney, PGA • Email: lakemurray@oklahomagolf.com; wchaney@ oklahomagolf.com • Website: www.travelok.com • Phone Number: 580-223-6613

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Lakeside Memorial Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 5201 N. Washington Stillwater, OK 74075 • Par/Yardage: 70/6170 whites, 6698 blues • Course Rating: 73.2; Slope: 132 • Architect: Labron Harris, Tripp Davis (redesign) • Year Opened: 1945, 1998 (redesign) • Director of Golf: Michael Henderson (GM), PGA • Superintendent: Mike Buxton, GCSAA • Green Fees: $20 weekdays, $24 weekends, $14 seniors, $15 twilight (weekdays), $17 twilight (weekend) $15 OSU students (anytime) • Amenities: pro shop, snacks, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green

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Lakeside Park Golf Course (Moore)

• Address: 3200 N. Eastern Ave. Moore, OK 73160 • Par/Yardage: 35/2880 • Head Professional: Joe Jones (owner) • Superintendent: David Reed • Green Fees: $8.50 weekdays, $9.50 weekends, $6.50 seniors/juniors (weekdays), $6.50/$7.50 twilight weekday/ weekend, $7.50 cart (per 9 holes) • Amenities: snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: • Lessons: Ken Wright, PGA teaching professional • Email: lakesidegolfcourse@sbcglobal.net • Phone Number: 405-794-0252

Lakeside Park Golf Course (Walters) • Location: 1 mile northwest of Walters • Address: 129 E. Colorado Walters, OK 73572 • Par/Yardage: 70/4588 whites, 5260 blues • Course Rating: 64; Slope: 106 • Year Opened: 1964 • Head Professional: Richard Glenn (GM) • Superintendent: Richard Glenn • Green Fees: $7 weekdays, $10 weekends • Amenities: golf carts, snacks, pro shop • Practice Facilities: putting green, driving net • Phone Number: 580-875-3829

Lakeview Golf Course

• Location: 3905 N. Commerce, Ardmore • Address: Box 5413 Ardmore, OK 73403 • Par/Yardage: 71/6144 whites, 6667 blues • Course Rating: 72.4; Slope: 116 • Year Opened: 1972 • Head Professional: Doug Hargis, PGA • Superintendent: Jake Cannon, GCSAA

• Green Fees: $30.52 weekdays, $33.79 weekends (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Lessons: Doug Hargis • Email: theview@cableone.net • Website: www.cityofardmore.org • Phone Number: 580-223-4260

Lakewood Golf Course

• Address: 18135 County Road 1560, Ada, 74820 • Par/Yardage: 35/2940 • Architect: Bart Todd • Year Opened: 1973 • Head Professional: David Muse (GM) • Superintendent: David Muse (GM) • Green Fees: $20 weekdays, $23 weekends, $15/$17 juniors, $15 twilight • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Lessons: David Muse (GM) • Email: muse74820@yahoo.com • Phone Number: 580-332-5151

Latimer County Golf Course

• Address: 3101 Golf Course Road Wilburton, OK 74578 • Par/Yardage: 35/2970 • Year Opened: 1970 • Director of Golf: Norm Clayburn • Green Fees: $13 weekdays, $15 weekends • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, pool • Practice Facilities: putting green • Email: donoley@gmail.com • Phone Number: 918-465-3161

Laverne Golf Course

• Location: Transport Road • Address: 200 SE 1st St. Laverne, OK 73848 • Par/Yardage: 36/3050

• Course Rating: 66.8; Slope: 103 • Superintendent: Curtis Patrick • Green Fees: $10 weekdays, $15 weekends • Amenities: golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Phone Number: 580-921-5228

Lawton Public Golf Course

• Location: Southwest 11th St. and Airport Rd., Lawton, OK 73501 • Address: Box 6338 Lawton, OK 73506 • Par/Yardage: 72/6451 whites, 6800 blues • Course Rating: 72.9; Slope: 102 • Year Opened: 1956 • Head Professional: Spanky Moody • Superintendent: Spanky Moody • Green Fees: $15 weekdays, $16 weekends. $9 cart (9 holes). $18 cart (18 holes) • Amenities: golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Lessons: Spanky Moody • Website: www.oklahomagolf.com • Phone Number: 580-353-4493

Lew Wentz Memorial Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 2928 L.A. Cann Drive Ponca City, OK 74604 • Par/Yardage: 71/5949 whites, 6261 blues • Course Rating: 70; Slope: 125 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1956 • Director of Golf: Rod Alexander, PGA • Head Professional: Kevin Brown, PGA • Superintendent: Todd Looper • Green Fees: $18 weekdays, $20.60 weekends, $8.75 juniors, $12.35 seniors (weekdays only), $14.50 twilight • Amenities: pro shop, snacks, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Lessons: Rod Alexander, Kevin Brown • Email: alexarg@poncacityok.gov • Website: www.poncacityok.gov • Phone Number: 580-767-0433

Lincoln Park Golf Course

• Free round of golf with website registration • Convenient location between Oklahoma City & Tulsa • Renovated by celebrated architect Tripp Davis in 1998

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PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 4001 NE Grand Blvd. Oklahoma City, OK 73111 East Course • Par/Yardage: 70/6240 whites, 6535 blues • Course Rating: 70; Slope: 120 • Architect: Arthur J. Jackson • Year Opened: 1932 West Course • Par/Yardage: 71/6137 whites, 6576 blues • Course Rating: 69.8; Slope: 124 • Architect: Arthur J. Jackson, Floyd Farley (1965 redesign), Randy Heckenkemper (1999 redesign) • Year Opened: 1921 • Director of Golf: Steve Carson, PGA • Head Professional: Aaron Kristopeit, PGA • Superintendent: Jim Wood, GCSAA • Green Fees: $39 (w/cart); $6.75 juniors, $15.25 seniors weekdays, $25.47 senior weekends, $21.40 (w/cart) twilight, $15.75 dusk • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Steve Carson, Aaron Kristopeit, Art Proctor (PGA teaching professional); four assistants • Email: link on web site • Website: www.okcgolf.com • Phone Number: 405-424-1421

Lindsay Municipal Golf Course

• Location: Oklahoma 76 North, 3 miles from Lindsay • Address: Box 708 Lindsay, OK 73052 • Par/Yardage: 36/3272 • Course Rating: 70; Slope: 118 • Year Opened: 1962 • Head Professional: Summer Cameron • Green Fees: $12, $7 juniors/seniors/twilight • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green, practice range (own golf balls) • Email: lindsaymunicipalgolf@yahoo.com • Phone Number: 405-756-3611

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PUBLIC COURSES Links at Bixby

• Address: 11500 Links Court Bixby, OK 74008 • Par/Yardage: 35/3079 • Course Rating: 68.5; Slope: 130 • Architect: Lyndy Lindsey • Year Opened: 1997 • Director of Golf: Frank Proctor (GM) • Superintendent: Brad Remke, GCSAA • Green Fees: $12/$16 (open to public weekdays),$14/$18 weekends, $8 juniors/seniors, $6 cart (9 holes), $12 cart (18 holes) • Amenities: pro shop, grill, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Lessons: Frank Proctor; two assistants • Email: linksonmemorialgolf@lindseymanagement.com • Website: www.lindseymanagement.com • Phone Number: 918-369-6035

Links at Mustang Creek

• Address: 2004 S. Mustang Road Yukon, OK 73099 • Par/Yardage: 35/3026 • Architect: Lyndy Lindsey • Director of Golf: Bob Alexander (Assistant Director) • Superintendent: Chris Priddy • Green Fees: $19.04 w/cart everyday (9 holes), $31.56 w/ cart everyday (18 holes), • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, snack bar, pool, fitness center • Practice Facilities: putting green, chipping green, aqua driving range • Website: www.lindseymanagement.com • Phone Number: 405-577-5858

Links at Oklahoma City

• Address: 700 NE 122nd Oklahoma City, OK 73114 • Par/Yardage: 30/1850 • Architect: Lyndy Lindsey • Year Opened: 1998 • Director of Golf: Tom Alsip (GM) • Green Fees: $10.85 all day, $17.85 (w/cart)

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Mangum Golf Course

• Location: Highway 9, northwest of Mangum • Address: 201 N. Oklahoma St. Mangum, OK 73554 • Par/Yardage: 35/2884 • Course Rating: 66.5; Slope: 113 • Year Opened: 1972 • Director of Golf: Jonathan Terry • Superintendent: Jackie Jenkins • Green Fees: $20 weekdays, $28 weekends/holidays, $7.50 juniors/seniors, $15 winter rate • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Email: jterry8718@gmail.com • Phone Number: 580-782-3676

Meadowlake Golf Club

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 2013 W. Rupe Enid, OK 73703 • Par/Yardage: 71/6322 whites, 6472 blues • Course Rating: 71.6; Slope: 117 • Architect: Tripp Davis (redesign) • Year Opened: 1954 • Head Professional: Cody Lack, PGA • Superintendent: Michael League, GCSAA • Green Fees: $32.50 weekdays, $36.50 weekends (includes cart), $6.50/$8 juniors, $25 seniors (weekdays, with cart), $10/$11.25 twilight • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, bunker • Lessons: Cody Lack; one assistant • Email: link on web site • Website: www.meadowlakecourse.com • Phone Number: 580-234-3080

Mohawk Park

First Tee Course • Address: 5223 E. 41st St. North Tulsa, OK 74115 • Par/Yardage: 32/2033 • Architect: Jerry Slack (redesign) • Year Opened: 1955 • Green Fees: $17 adults, $10 seniors/juniors Pecan Valley Course • Par/Yardage: 68/5275 whites, 5688 blues • Course Rating: 67.5; Slope: 120 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1955 Woodbine Course • Par/Yardage: 72/6472 whites, 6845 blues • Course Rating: 72.8; Slope: 122 • Year Opened: 1934 • Assistant GM: Rob Stout • Superintendent: Jeremy Zinfer • Green Fees: $18 weekdays, $22 weekends, $10 juniors/ seniors, $12 twilight, $14 cart fee • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, adjacent to park and zoo • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Janice Gibson, PGA teaching professional (918591-4168) • Website: www.tulsagolf.org • Phone Number: 918-425-6871

Northern Hills Golf Course

• Location: 302 S. Montgomery, Enid • Address: Box 2066 Enid, OK 73708 • Par/Yardage: 35/2898 • Course Rating: 68.1; Slope: 109 • Year Opened: 1933 • Head Professional: Gene Long • Superintendent: Johnny Long • Green Fees: $8 weekdays, $9 weekends, $5/$6 seniors • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, snack bar • Lessons: contact pro shop • Phone Number: 580-234-5131

Nowata Country Club

• Address: 507 W. Delaware Nowata, OK 74048 • Par/Yardage: 36/2327 whites, 2635 blues • Course Rating: 65.4; Slope: 106 • Year Opened: 1912 • Head Professional: Betty McGee (GM)

• Superintendent: Don Hutton • Green Fees: $15 weekdays, $18 weekends, $10 cart (per person for 18 holes), $7.50 cart (per person for 9 holes) • Amenities: limited pro shop, lounge, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Phone Number: 918-273-0928

Okeene Municipal Golf Course

• Address: 401 S. Phillips St. Okeene, OK 73763 • Par/Yardage: 35/2932 • Course Rating: 66.7; Slope: 97 • Year Opened: 1981 • Superintendent: Barry Nault • Green Fees: contact pro shop • Amenities: snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range • Email: okeencity@pldi.net • Phone Number: 580-822-3435

Okmulgee Country Club

• Address: 1400 S. Mission Okmulgee, OK 74447 • Par/Yardage: 71/6039 whites, 6480 blues • Year Opened: 1920, 2007 (back 9) • Head Professional: Valerie Taryole(GM) • Green Fees: $10 all day, $8 seniors, $10 carts • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, bunker • Email: okmulgeegolfclub@yahoo.com • Phone Number: 918-756-8000

Page Belcher Golf Course

• Address: 6666 S. Union Tulsa, OK 74132 Olde Page Course • Par/Yardage: 71/6338 whites, 6826 blues • Course Rating: 72.5; Slope: 127 • Architect: Leon Howard • Year Opened: 1977, 2005 (redesign) Stone Creek Course • Par/Yardage: 71/6105 whites, 6547 blues • Course Rating: 72.2; Slope: 132 • Architect: Don Sechrest, Randy Heckenkemper (redesign) • Year Opened: 1987, 2003 (redesign) • GM: Tom Wolff • Superintendent: Adam Boyne • Green Fees: $37 weekdays, $40 weekends, $36 juniors, $26 seniors(weekdays, cart included), $31 twilight (including cart) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting greens, chipping green, driving range, bunker • Lessons: Dean Adkisson, PGA; George Glenn, PGA • Email: twolff@tulsagolf.org • Website: www.tulsagolf.org • Phone Number: 918-446-1529

Par-3 at Lit’l Links

• Location: Northeast corner of S. 129th E. Ave. and E. 121st St., Tulsa County • Address: Box 701234 Tulsa, OK 74170 • Par/Yardage: 54/3128 • Course Rating: 55.5; • Architect: Jim Ingram • Year Opened: 1994, 1999 (redesign) • Director of Golf: Jim Ingram • Head Professional: Kyle Ingram, PGA • Superintendent: Eli Ingram • Green Fees: $15 All Players • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: lighted driving range, putting green, chipping green • Lessons: Kyle Ingram; Jim Ingram • Email: KIngram@litllinks.com • Website: www.litllinks.com • Phone Number: 918-481-3673

Parks Memorial Golf Course

• Address: 1112 N. Ayers Ave. Prague, OK 74864 • Par/Yardage: 35/3450 • Course Rating: 66.8; Slope: 114 • Year Opened: 1920s • Director of Golf: Sam Smith • Superintendent: Sam Smith • Green Fees: $10 (9 holes), $18 (18 holes) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Phone Number: 405-567-2857

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PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: 4980 Clubhouse Road, Grove • Address: Box 6586 Grove, OK 74344 • Par/Yardage: 72/6046 blues, 6804 gold • Course Rating: 73.0; Slope: 127 • Architect: Tripp Davis • Year Opened: 1998 • Director of Golf: Randy Van Warren • Superintendent: Chris Buck, GCSAA • Green Fees: $45 (Mon-Thurs), $55 (Fri-Sun & holidays), (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Steve Pace • Email: info@patriciaisland.com • Website: www.patriciaisland.com • Phone Number: 918-786-3338, 800-495-5253

Pauls Valley Golf Course

• Location: I-35 to Exit 70, Airport Road, Pauls Valley • Address: Box 778 Pauls Valley, OK 73075 • Par/Yardage: 36/3235 • Course Rating: 72; Slope: 106 • Year Opened: 1990s • Head Professional: Jason Selman (GM) • Superintendent: Jason Selman (GM) • Green Fees: $14.50 weekdays, $16.50 weekends, $9.50 junior/senior, $7 twilight (weekdays) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Email: jselmon@cityofpaulsvalley.com • Website: www.cityofpaulsvalley.com • Phone Number: 405-238-7462

Pawnee Municipal Course

• Location: Highway 18 2 miles north of Pawnee • Address: 46511 S. 345 Rd Pawnee, OK 74058

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• Par/Yardage: 35/2924 • Course Rating: 67.3; Slope: 114 • Architect: Labron Harris • Year Opened: 1984 • Head Professional: Charlie Bowen, Lew Dietz (coowners) • Green Fees: $10 weekdays, $15 weekends/holidays, $6 cart (per 9 holes) • Amenities: snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Phone Number: 918-762-3785

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Pebble Creek Golf Course

• Address: 355 E. Pebble Creek Terrace Mustang, OK 73064 • Par/Yardage: 27/827 • Architect: Tripp Davis • Year Opened: 1999 • Head Professional: Steve Baker, PGA • Superintendent: Steve Baker • Green Fees: $10 (9 holes), $14 (18 holes), $11.50 juniors/ seniors • Amenities: pro shop, snacks, golf carts • Lessons: Joe Roberts • Email: sjbaker1304@yahoo.com • Website: www.pebblecreekgolfok.com • Phone Number: 405-376-8892, 405-376-3704

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Pecan Valley Golf Course

• Location: Highway 80 North, Fort Gibson • Address: Box 1983 Fort Gibson, OK 74434 • Par/Yardage: 70/5217 whites, 5439 blues • Year Opened: 1990 • Head Professional: Cliff Garrett • Superintendent: Cliff Garrett • Green Fees: $13.85 (9 holes, 1/2 cart), $18.11 (18 holes, 1/2 cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: irons range, chipping area • Email: carmengarrett@att.net • Phone Number: 918-478-9774

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PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 10301 S. 600 Road Miami, OK 74354 • Par/Yardage: 72/6544 whites, 6960 blues • Course Rating: 74.1; Slope: 127 • Architect: Bland Pittman • Year Opened: 1999 • Head Professional: Keith Neel • Superintendent: Milton Hale, GCSAA • Green Fees: $39.50 weekdays, $52.50 weekends (includes cart), $29.50 seniors • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Lessons: Keith Neel • Email: kneel@peoriaridge.com • Website: www.peoriaridge.com • Phone Number: 918-542-7676

Perry Golf and Country Club

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• Location: North 9th Street, Perry • Address: Box 230 Perry, OK 73077 • Par/Yardage: 35/2971 • Course Rating: 68.4; Slope: 118 • Year Opened: late 1920s • Head Professional: Bud Gill, PGA • Superintendent: Gerald Gill, GCSAA • Green Fees: $10(9 holes, weekdays), $20 (18 holes, weekends) Closed Mondays • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, pool • Practice Facilities: driving range (own golf balls), putting green, chipping green • Lessons: Gerald Gill • Phone Number: 580-336-2326

Pheasant Run Golf Club

• Address: 1702 Clubhouse Dr. Enid, OK 73703 • Par/Yardage: 72/6652 whites, 7424 blues • Course Rating: 74.8; Slope: 120 • Architect: Bland Pittman • Year Opened: 1998 • Director of Golf: Ronny Dow (GM) • Head Professional: Hamilton Wheeler • Green Fees: $17 weekdays, $22 weekends, $8.60/$13.60 seniors • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: four-tiered driving range, putting green, chipping green, practice bunker • Lessons: Hamilton Wheeler • Email: hwheeler_21@yahoo.com • Website: www.pheasantrunenid.com • Phone Number: 580-233-2355

Prairie West Golf Club

• Location: Rader Park, 401 Hook Drive, northeast of Weatherford • Address: Box 42 Weatherford, OK 73096 • Par/Yardage: 71/5737 whites, 6747 blues • Course Rating: 67.3; Slope: 115 • Architect: Labron Harris • Year Opened: 1971 • Head Professional: Phillip Payne (GM) • Superintendent: Patrick Brewer • Green Fees: $22 weekdays, $26 weekends, $18.50 students, $15/$17 twilight, $16.50 seniors/juniors • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, shortgame area • Lessons: Levi Robison • Email: pwgolfstore@yahoo.com • Phone Number: 580-772-3832

Pryor Creek Municipal Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 724 E. 530 Road Pryor, OK 74361 • Par/Yardage: 72/6349 whites, 6657 blues • Course Rating: 71.2; Slope: 124 • Year Opened: 1930 • Head Professional: Dennis Bowman, PGA • Superintendent: Dennis Bowman, GCSAA • Green Fees: $18; $11 juniors/seniors, $10 twilight (weekdays) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green

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Quartz Mountain Golf Course

• Location: Oklahoma 44A to Quartz Mountain State Park, near Lone Wolf • Address: Route 1, Box 35 Lone Wolf, OK 73655 • Par/Yardage: 71/6035 whites, 6483 blues • Course Rating: 70.8; Slope: 119 • Architect: Art Proctor • Year Opened: 1959, 1994 (redesign) • Director of Golf: Larry Sole • Superintendent: Larry Sole • Green Fees: $22 weekdays, $25 weekends (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, lodge with lake, pool, cabins, gift shop, restaurant • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Website: www.quartzmountainresort.com • Phone Number: 580-563-2520

River Bend Golf Course (18 holes)

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: 2 1/2 miles from I-44 Exit 83, Chickasha 18 Hole Course • Address: 1156 County Road 1345 Chickasha, OK 73018 • Par/Yardage: 71/5994 whites, 6500 blues • Course Rating: 71.5; Slope: 118 • Year Opened: 1995 River Bend Course (9 holes) • Par/Yardage: 36/2338 • Year Opened: 1995 • Superintendent: Michael Raidt, GCSAA (GM) • Green Fees: $15 weekdays, $20 weekends, $12.50 cart per person • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, pool, tennis, restaurant • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Tom Swiney, PGA • Email: Riverbendokgolfclub@gmail.com • Website: www.riverbendok.com • Phone Number: 405-222-1995

Riverside Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: Route 66 off I-40, Clinton • Address: Route 1, Box 3625 Clinton, OK 73601 • Par/Yardage: 70/5642 whites, 6117 blues • Course Rating: 68.8; Slope: 113 • Year Opened: 1962 • Head Professional: Kent Miller, PGA • Superintendent: Kelly Somner, GCSAA • Green Fees: $21.08 weekdays, $29.02 weekends, $14.50/$19.25 juniors/seniors/twilight • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, bunker • Lessons: Kent Miller • Email: bkmiller56@pga.com • Phone Number: 580-323-5958

Rock Creek Golf Course

• Location: Fallon Road, 4 miles east of Hugo • Address: 3017 E. 2090 Rd. Hugo, OK 74743 • Par/Yardage: 36/3139 • Course Rating: 68; Slope: 106 • Year Opened: 1970 • Head Professional: Jimmy Harber (GM) • Green Fees: $8 (9 holes) 7 days a week • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: Jimmy Harber • Email: joyesatt@gmail.com • Phone Number: 580-326-6130

Rolling Meadows Golf Club

• Address: 23700 E. Rupe Ave. Covington, OK 73730 • Par/Yardage: 35/2860 • Year Opened: 2001 • Head Professional: Jim Betchan (owner) • Superintendent: Jim Betchan • Green Fees: $5 weekdays (M-Th), $8 weekends (F- Sun), $7 cart (per 9 holes) • Amenities: golf carts, clubhouse • Practice Facilities: driving range

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Roman Nose State Park Golf Course

• Location: Oklahoma 8A, north of Watonga • Address: Route 1, Box 171-A Watonga, OK 73772 • Par/Yardage: 70/5696 whites, 6188 blues • Course Rating: 70.5; Slope: 123 • Architect: Floyd Farley (original 9) • Year Opened: 1960, 1999 (back 9) • Director of Golf: Ryan Bruner (GM) • Superintendent: Ryan Bruner, GCSAA (GM) • Green Fees: $34 (Tues-Sun), $20 (Mon all day play) (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, lodge with restaurant, fishing, hiking, pool, games • Practice Facilities: putting green, chipping area • Email: romannose@oklahomagolf.com • Website: www.oklahomagolf.com/ www.travelok.com • Phone Number: 580-623-7989

Sapulpa Golf Course

• Address: 1200 W. Dewey Sapulpa, OK 74066 • Par/Yardage: 71/6189 whites, 6708 blues • Course Rating: 72.4; Slope: 128 • Architect: Slack, Hayes and Associates (redesign) • Year Opened: 1994 (redesign), 2004 (redesign) • Head Professional: Dale Moss (GM) • Superintendent: Randy Smith, GCSAA • Green Fees: $19 weekdays, $25 weekends, $10 juniors, $8 youth, (weekdays), $12 seniors (weekdays), $15 twilight • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, snack bar • Practice Facilities: putting green, chipping green, driving range • Lessons: Jim Ellis • Email: Proshop@cityofsapulpa.net • Phone Number: 918-224-0237

Sayre Municipal Golf Course

• Location: south of Sayre • Address: P.O Box 157 Sayre, OK 73662 • Par/Yardage: 36/3110 • Year Opened: 1973 • Superintendent: Hershal McBaine • Green Fees: $15 weekdays, $20 weekends, $10 seniors/ twilight • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts • Phone Number: 580-928-9046

Scissortail Golf Club

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: Verdigris • Address: 25474 Stonebridge Pky Claremore, OK 74019 • Par/Yardage: 71/6048 whites, 6510 blues • Architect: Randy Heckenkemper • Year Opened: 2006 • Director of Golf: Chad Weinrich (GM) • Superintendent: Chad Weinrich, GCSAA • Green Fees: $30 weekdays, $36 weekends, $20 twilight (weekdays), $25 twilight (weekends) (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Email: link on web site • Website: www.scissortailgolfclub.com • Phone Number: 918-266-5000

Seiling Golf and Country Club • Location: West 6th Street, Seiling • Par/Yardage: 35/2832 (sand greens) • Green Fees: $5 per day for non-members • Email: seilinggolfcoursellc@gmail.com • Phone Number: 580-922-4460 (city hall)

Sequoyah State Park Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 19277 Park 10 Hulbert, OK 74441 • Par/Yardage: 70/5707 whites, 5890 blues • Course Rating: 69.9; Slope: 109 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1964 • Head Professional: Tony Presley (GM) • Superintendent: Larry Dye • Green Fees: $20 (9 holes), $27 (18 holes) (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green, limited driving range

• Lessons: contact pro shop • Website: www.tribalok.com • Phone Number: 918-772-2297

Shadow Creek Country Club

• Address: 27 Clubview Circle Sallisaw, OK 74955 • Par/Yardage: 71/5395 whites, 6015 blues • Course Rating: 65.7; Slope: 113 • Year Opened: 1986 • Superintendent: Jay Pearson (GM) • Green Fees: $28 weekdays, $34 weekends, $26 seniors (weekdays), $32 seniors (weekends), $20 green fee (Tuesdays only) (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Phone Number: 918-790-3140

Shangri-La Resort

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: Grand Lake - Monkey Island • Address: 30697 S. Highway 125 Afton, OK 74331 • Par/Yardage: 72/6439 whites, 7100 blues • Course Rating: 73.7; Slope: 131 • Architect: Don Sechrest • Year Opened: 1970 • Director of Golf: Rob Yanovitch, PGA • Superintendent: Justin May, GCSAA • Green Fees: $69 weekdays, $94.95 weekends (includes cart and tax), $59 weekdays and $79 weekends (off season) (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, snacks, lodging, marina, golf packages, boating, fishing • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Available by appointment • Email: rob.yanovitch@shangrilaok.com • Website: www.shangrilaok.com • Phone Number: 918-257-4204

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Silverado Golf Course

• Location: 1620 E. Sandstone, Durant, 74701 • Address: Box 40 Durant, OK 74702 • Par/Yardage: 71/5670 whites, 6334 blues • Course Rating: 70.8; Slope: 121 • Year Opened: 2001 • Director of Golf: Terry Reynolds (owner) • Superintendent: Chris Pickett • Green Fees: $30 weekdays, $42 weekends; $21 weekdays, $25 weekends (students), $25 twilight (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, bar and grill, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Email: silveradogolfcourse@hotmail.com • Website: www.silveradogolf.com • Phone Number: 580-924-1899

South Lakes Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 9253 S. Elwood Jenks, OK 74037 • Par/Yardage: 71/5839 whites, 6413 blues • Course Rating: 70.7; Slope: 119 • Year Opened: 1988 • Director of Golf: Pat McCrate, PGA • Head Professional: Jason Hines, PGA • Superintendent: Dominic Donajkowski • Green Fees: $22.75 weekdays, $25 weekends, $13 seniors and twilight, $11 juniors (13-16), $8 youth (12-under) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens, shortgame area • Lessons: Jason Hines, Cory Clarkin, Brent Wilcoxen, Lyndsey Adams • Email: links on web site • Website: www.southlakesgolf.com • Phone Number: 918-746-3760

Shattuck Golf and Country Club

• Address: U.S. 283 Shattuck, OK 73858 • Par/Yardage: 36/3210 • Course Rating: 68.5; Slope: 110 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1968 • Head Professional: Homer Johnson (GM) • Green Fees: $13 weekdays, $17 weekends • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green, driving range • Email: shattuckgolf@pldi.net • Phone Number: 580-938-2445

SilverHorn Golf Club

• Address: 11411 N. Kelley Ave. Oklahoma City, OK 73131 • Par/Yardage: 71/6071 whites, 6768 blues • Course Rating: 73.4; Slope: 128 • Architect: Randy Heckenkemper • Year Opened: 1991 • Director of Golf: Chris Kempen (GM) • Superintendent: Chris Sorrell, GCSAA • Green Fees: $32 weekdays, $38 weekends, $8 juniors, $24 seniors • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Lessons: contact pro shop • Email: silverhorn@americangolf.com

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• Location: Route 1, Oklahoma Hwy 99 • Address: Route 1, Box 629 Stroud, OK 74079 • Par/Yardage: 35/3146 • Course Rating: 70.2; Slope: 118 • Architect: Don Sechrest • Year Opened: 1968 • Head Professional: Roger Vaughn • Superintendent: Ronnie McKinney • Green Fees: $11 weekdays, $13 weekends, $7 juniors, $9 seniors • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens • Lessons: contact pro shop • Email: rfoundry@yahoo.com • Phone Number: 918-968-2105

Sugar Creek Canyon Golf Course

• Location: 200 W. Sugar Creek Road, Hinton (1/2 mile south of Red Rock Canyon State Park) • Address: Box 519 Hinton, OK 73047 • Par/Yardage: 71/6274 whites, 6890 blues • Course Rating: 73.1; Slope: 125 • Architect: Mark Hayes • Year Opened: 1999 • Director of Golf: Rick Smith (GM) • Superintendent: Mike Payne • Green Fees: $34 weekdays, $39 weekends (includes cart) $24 All Day Play on Mondays • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Lessons: contact pro shop • Website: www.sugarcreekcanyon.com • Phone Number: 405-542-3974

Sulphur Hills Golf Course

• Location: 2001 Country Club Drive, Sulphur • Par/Yardage: 36/3225 • Course Rating: 69.5; Slope: 107 • Architect: Floyd Farley

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www.golfoklahoma.org • Year Opened: 1964 • Head Professional: Heath Hancock (GM) • Superintendent: Heath Hancock • Green Fees: $20 (18 holes, 1/2 cart), $15 (9 holes, 1/2 cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Phone Number: 580-622-5057

Sunset Hills Golf Course

• Location: U.S. 54, Guymon • Address: 5000 Sunset Guymon, OK 73942 • Par/Yardage: 71/5982 whites, 6304 blues • Course Rating: 70.3; Slope: 120 • Year Opened: 1962 • Director of Golf: Mike Roach • Superintendent: Mike Roach • Green Fees: $17 weekdays, $23 weekends, $11.50 cart (9 holes), $23 cart (18 holes) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green, chipping green, bunker • Lessons: Dewayne Mauldin, Chase Cooper, Jerry Cooper • Phone Number: 580-338-7404

Surrey Hills, Golf Club at

• Address: 11340 Surrey Hills Blvd. Yukon, OK 73099 • Par/Yardage: 71/6248 whites, 6645 blues • Course Rating: 72.3; Slope: 124 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1962 • Head Professional: John Kelley • Superintendent: Erick Chandler, GCSAA • Green Fees: $33 weekdays, $37 weekends (includes cart), #26 seniors (weekdays), $31 seniors (weekends) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Lessons: John Kelley • Email: link on website • Website: www.surreyhillsok@coxinet.net • Phone Number: 405-373-2471

Tahlequah City Golf Course

• Address: 111 S. Cherokee Tahlequah, OK 74464 • Par/Yardage: 34/2320 • Year Opened: 1928 • Director of Golf: Mike Palmer(GM) • Superintendent: Mike Palmer, GCSAA • Green Fees: $10.15 all day (18 holes) • Amenities: snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green • Email: golfsuper@cityoftahlequah.org • Website: www.cityoftahlequah.org • Phone Number: 918-456-3761

Tishomingo Golf Course

• Address: 3600 Golf Course Rd. Tishomingo, OK 73460 • Par/Yardage: 36/3014 • Year Opened: 1940s • Head Professional: Lee Lovett • Superintendent: Lee Lovett • Green Fees: $27.50 (weekday, cart included), $32.50(weekend, cart included), $7.50 (twilight) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range (own golf balls), putting green • Phone Number: 580-371-2604

Trosper Park Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: 2301 SE 29th Oklahoma City, OK 73129 • Par/Yardage: 70/5963 whites, 6601 blues • Course Rating: 71.8; Slope: 129 • Architect: Tom Harris, Randy Heckenkemper (redesign) • Year Opened: 1954, 2001 (redesign) • Director of Golf: Mark Galloway, PGA • Head Professional: Brandon Alford, PGA • Superintendent: Steve Williams, GCSAA • Green Fees: $42.26, $7.32 juniors, $31.70 seniors, $37.39 twilight, $32.24 dusk (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping

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holes), $18/$22 (18 holes) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Phone Number: 918-463-5333

White Hawk Golf Club

The Clubhouse and Golf Academy at WinStar Resort in Thackerville. green, bunker • Lessons: Mark Galloway, Brandon Alford • Email: markgalloway@sbcglobal.net/ brandon@okcgolf. com • Website: www.okcgolf.com • Phone Number: 405-677-8874

Turkey Creek Golf Club

• Location: Oklahoma 51, Hennessey, OK 73742 • Address: No. 2, Country Club Drive Hennessey, OK 73742 • Par/Yardage: 70/5720 whites, 6300 blues • Course Rating: 70.1; Slope: 114 • Architect: Slack, Hayes and Associates • Year Opened: 1970, 1996 (redesign) • Head Professional: Earl Seiger • Superintendent: Dustin Vinson • Green Fees: $20 weekdays, $30 weekends (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Lessons: contact pro shop • Email: hogan@pldi.net • Phone Number: 405-853-2100

Twin Oaks Golf Club

• Address: 6755 North Highway 81 Duncan, OK 73533 • Par/Yardage: 71/5986 whites, 6317 blues • Course Rating: 69.9; Slope: 122 • Year Opened: 1968 • Head Professional: Chris Ellsworth • Superintendent: Chris Ellsworth (GM) • Green Fees: $20 weekdays, $25 weekends, $5 senior, $5 ladies day (M-Th), $10 cart • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts, snack bar • Practice Facilities: lighted driving range, putting and chipping greens • Lessons: Bob Hardy • Email: cjellsworth@cableone.net • Website: www.twinoaksgolfclub.com • Phone Number: 580-252-4714

• Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Email: denise.adkinsson@hotmail.com • Phone Number: 580-623-4674

Waurika Golf Course

• Address: 1222 West Anderson Waurika, OK 73573 • Par/Yardage: 35/2911 • Year Opened: 1950s, rebuilt greens in 2005 • Director of Golf: Bill Everett (GM) • Superintendent: David McDonald • Green Fees: $8 (without cart), $10 (includes cart), under 16 free • Amenities: limited pro shop, golf carts • Practice Facilities: pitching green, putting green • Website: www.waurika.us • Phone Number: 580-228-2818

Westbury Country Club

• Address: 2101 Westbury Drive Yukon, OK 73099 • Par/Yardage: 72/6276 whites, 7000 blues • Course Rating: 72.3; Slope: 122 • Architect: Don January • Year Opened: 1972 • Head Professional: Duck Lutz • Superintendent: Gene O’Bryant, GCSAA • Green Fees: $32.90 weekdays, $36.90 weekends, $8 juniors (weekdays) (includes cart) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, pool, tennis, health spa • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Duck Lutz • Email: westburycountryclub@hotmail.com • Website: westburycountryclub.com • Phone Number: 405-324-0707

Westwood Park Golf Course

• Address: 128 Wildhorse Drive Velma, OK 73491 • Par/Yardage: 35/3071 • Course Rating: 68.7; Slope: 111 • Year Opened: 1967 • Director of Golf: Kenneth Maxwell • Head Professional: Kenneth Maxwell • Green Fees: $8 weekdays, $10 weekends • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts • Practice Facilities: putting green • Email: wildhorsegolfcourse@gmail.com • Phone Number: 580-444-3338

• Address: 2400 Westwood Drive Norman, OK 73069 • Par/Yardage: 70/5810 whites, 6162 blues • Course Rating: 69.5; Slope: 116 • Architect: Floyd Farley • Year Opened: 1967 • Head Professional: David Lisle, PGA • Superintendent: Ralph Cagigal, GCSAA • Green Fees: $24.50; $20 (after 2 p.m.), $15.25 (after 4 p.m.), $13.25 (after 6 p.m.), $15.25 seniors, $28 carts (18 holes) • Amenities: pro shop, restaurant, golf carts, tennis, pool • Practice Facilities: putting green, driving range, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: David Lisle • Email: westwood.golf@normanok.gov • Website: normanok.gov • Phone Number: 405-292-9700

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• Location: Oklahoma 51A on Airport Road, Watonga • Address: 861 Airport Road Watonga, OK 73772 • Par/Yardage: 36/3233 • Course Rating: 70.7; Slope: 118 • Year Opened: 1960 • Director of Golf: Denise Adkinsson • Green Fees: $9 ( 9 holes), $15 (18 holes), $9 cart (9 holes), $15 cart (18 holes)

• Location: Oklahoma 2, Warner • Address: Route 1, Box 13680 Warner, OK 74469 • Par/Yardage: 36/3400 • Architect: Ken Pruitt • Year Opened: 1993 • Director of Golf: John Paris (owner) • Superintendent: John Paris • Green Fees: $12 weekdays (9 holes), $14 weekends (9

• Address: 14515 S. Yale Ave. Bixby, OK 74008 • Par/Yardage: 72/6509 whites, 6982 blues • Course Rating: 74.6; Slope: 135 • Architect: Randy Heckenkemper • Year Opened: 1993 • Director of Golf: Matt Paquette (GM) • Superintendent: Donnie Allgood • Green Fees: $33 weekdays, $43 weekends, $27/$35 twilight, $23 seniors (weekdays), $16.50 juniors (weekdays) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, banquet pavilion • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunker • Website: whitehawkgc.com • Phone Number: 918-366-4653

WinStar Golf Course

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Location: Interstate 35, Exit 1, Just north of Texas • Address: Route 1, Box 694 Thackerville, OK 73459 • Par/Yardage: 72/7144 blues (west & south); 7116 blues (west & east); 7214 blues (south & east) • Course Rating: 75.6; Slope: 126 • Architect: D. A. Weibring • Year Opened: 2006 • Director of Golf: Mike Hammond, PGA (GM) • Superintendent: Charles Wise, GCSAA • Green Fees: $65 weekdays, $85 weekends (includes cart and range balls), $60 seniors (weekdays) • Amenities: pro shop, clubhouse, restaurant, golf carts with GPS, casino, banquet hall • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, short-game area • Lessons: Lessons through Golf Academy • Email: mike.hammond@chickasaw.net • Website: www.winstargolfcourse.com • Phone Number: 580-276-1240

Windy Trails Golf Course

• Location: Altus Air Force Base • Address: 209 Fir Drive, Building 35 Altus, OK 73523 • Par/Yardage: 71/6234 whites, 6763 blues • Course Rating: 72.3; Slope: 115 • Year Opened: 1997 (second 9) • Head Professional: Rusty Wortham, PGA • Superintendent: Rusty Wortham, PGA • Green Fees: $18 weekdays/weekends • Amenities: pro shop, snack area, golf carts • Practice Facilities: lighted driving range, putting green, bunker • Lessons: Rusty Wortham, PGA • Email: lacy.wortham@altus.af.mil • Website: www.altusfss.com • Phone Number: 580-482-8719

Winter Creek Country Club

PGA GOLF PASS MEMBER • Address: No. 7, Clubhouse Drive, Box 641 Blanchard, OK 73010 • Par/Yardage: 72/6658 whites, 7106 blues • Course Rating: 73.8; Slope: 128 • Architect: Rocky Rocquemore • Year Opened: 2003 • Director of Golf: Garrett Mitchell • Head Professional: Max Stewart • Superintendent: Elijah F. • Green Fees: $50 weekdays, $65 weekends (includes cart), $20 juniors (weekdays), $30 junior (weekends) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, restaurant, pool, fitness center • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green, bunkers • Lessons: Garrett Mitchell, Max Stewart • Email: garrettm@wintercreekgc.com • Website: www.wintercreekgc.com • Phone Number: 405-224-4653

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Woods Golf Course, The

• Address: 11872 S. 274th E. Ave Coweta, OK 74429 • Par/Yardage: 70/5862 whites, 6192 blues • Course Rating: 72.4; Slope: 123 • Year Opened: 1981, 1998 (redesign) • Head Professional: Allen Messick (GM) • Superintendent: Jackey Yocham, GCSAA • Green Fees: $11.50 weekdays, $12.50 weekends, $8 juniors/seniors/twilight (weekdays) • Amenities: pro shop, snack bar, golf carts, players lounge • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting greens • Lessons: Allen Messick • Email: woodsgolfcourse@aol.com • Phone Number: 918-486-3117

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Wolf Ridge Golf Club

• Address: 24175 Clubhouse Lane Wister, OK 74966 • Par/Yardage: 72/6466 whites, 7016 blues • Course Rating: 74.1; Slope: 121 • Year Opened: 2005 • Superintendent: Christopher Faust, GCSAA • Green Fees: $32 weekdays, $36 weekends (includes cart and tax) • Amenities: clubhouse, pro shop, restaurant, massage therapist • Practice Facilities: putting green, driving range • Email: wolfridgeclubhouse@gmail.com • Website: www.wolfridgegolfclub.com • Phone Number: 918-647-2582

Wolf at Tenkiller, The

• Location: 4.5 miles East of Lake Tenkiller Dam, 1.5 east of Hwy 82 and Hwy 100 • Address: 453579 E. 965 Road, Vian, OK 74962 • Par/Yardage: 72/6451 • Course Rating: 72.6; Slope: 132 • Head Professional: Kyle Fulbright, PGA • Superintendent: Charlie Fulbright • Green Fees: $30 weekdays, $35 weekends (includes cart) Twilight $20 and $25, Seniors and military $25 and $30, includes cart.

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• Address: 2500 Whittaker Way, Woodward, OK 73801 • Par/Yardage: 35/3323 • Course Rating: 69.7; Slope: 113 • Architect: Robert C. Dunning • Year Opened: 1954 • Head Professional: Robert Wood (GM) • Superintendent: Robert Wood (GM) • Green Fees: $14.55 weekdays, $16.85 weekends, $7 twilight • Amenities: pro shop, golf carts • Practice Facilities: driving range, putting green, chipping green • Lessons: Gene Endersby, PGA • Phone Number: 580-256-9028

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CROSS REFERENCE Golf Courses by City Ada - Lakewood GC, Oak Hills CC Afton - Shangri La Altus - Windy Trails GC at Altus AFB Alva - Alva G&CC Anadarko – Dietrich Memorial GC Ardmore - Dornick Hills CC, Lake Murray Lodge GC, Lakeview GC Atoka - Atoka Trails GC Bartlesville - Adams GC, Hillcrest CC, Beaver - Beaver Pioneer Park GC Bird Island - The Coves GC Bixby - Links at Bixby, White Hawk GC Blackwell - Blackwell GC Blanchard - Winter Creek GC Bristow - Bristow G&CC Broken Arrow -Battle Creek GC, Broken Arrow G&AC, Cedar Ridge CC, Emerald Falls G&CC, Forest Ridge GC, Golf Club of Oklahoma, Indian Springs CC Broken Bow - Cedar Creek GC and Resort Buffalo - Doby Springs GC Burneyville - Falconhead Resort Canadian - Arrowhead GC Catoosa - Cherokee Hills GC Chandler - Chandler GC Checotah - Fountainhead Creek GC Chickasha - Cottonwood Creek GG, River Bend GC Choctaw - Choctaw Creek GC Claremore - Gordon GC, Heritage Hills GC Cleveland - Keystone GC Clinton - Riverside GC Comanche - Comanche GC Cordell – Crooked Creek Covington - Rolling Meadows GC Coweta - Cedar Creek GC, The Woods GC Cushing - Cushing CC Drumright - Drumright CC Duncan - Duncan/Elks G&CC, The Territory G&CC, Twin Oaks GC Durant - Durant CC, Silverado Edmond - Coffee Creek GC, Fairfax GC, Kickingbird GC, Oak Tree CC, Oak Tree National, River Oaks GC, Rose Creek GC Enid - Meadowlake GC, Oakwood CC, Pheasant Run GC El Reno - Crimson Creek GC Elk City - Elk City G&CC Fairfax - Kah-Wah-C CC Fort Cobb - Fort Cobb GC

www.golfoklahoma.org Fort Gibson - Pecan Valley GC Frederick - Frederick CC Glenpool - Cotton Creek GC Grove - Patricia Island GC Guthrie - Cedar Valley GC, Cimarron National, Guthrie G&CC Guymon - Sunset Hills GC Healdton - Healdton GC Hennessey - Turkey Creek GC Henryetta - Henryetta CC Hinton - Sugar Creek Canyon GC Hobart - Hobart CC Hooker - Blackmer Muni GC Hugo - Hugo CC, Rock Creek GC Hulbert - Sequoyah State Hills GC Idabel - Idabel CC Jenks - South Lakes GC Kansas - Deer Valley GC Kingfisher - Kingfisher GC Kingston - Buncombe Creek GC, Chickasaw Pointe Langley - Grand Cherokee GC Laverne - Laverne GC Lawton - Lawton CC, Lawton Public GC Lindsey - Lindsey Municipal GC Lone Wolf - Quartz Mountain GC Longdale - Fairview Lakeside CC Mangum - Mangum GC Marlow - Generations GC McAlester - McAlester CC Meeker - Persimmon Hills GC Miami - Peoria Ridge GC Midwest City - John Conrad GC, Tinker AFB GC Moore - Broadmoore GC, Lakeside Park GC, Moore G&AC Muskogee - Cobblestone Creek GC, Eagle Crest GC, Muskogee CC Mustang - Pebble Creek GC Norman - Belmar GC, Jimmie Austin-University of Oklahoma GC, The Links at Norman, The Trails GC, Westwood Park GC Nowata - Nowata CC Okeene - Okeene Muni GC Oklahoma City - Brookside GC, Earlywine GC, Gaillardia CC, James E. Stewart GC, Lake Hefner GC, Lincoln Park GC, Links at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City G&CC, Quail Creek G&CC, Silverhorn GC, The Greens CC, Trosper Park GC, Twin Hills G&CC, Willow Creek G&CC Okmulgee - Okmulgee CC Owasso - Bailey Golf Ranch, The Patriot, Owasso G&AC Pauls Valley - Pauls Valley GC

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Pawnee - Pawnee Muni GC Perkins - Cimarron Trails Perry - Perry G&CC Ponca City - Lew Wentz CC, Ponca City CC Porter - Hilltop GC Poteau - Choctaw CC Prague - Parks Memorial GC Pryor - Pryor Creek GC Purcell - Brent Bruehl Memorial GC Sallisaw - Shadow Creek CC Sand Springs - Canyons at Blackjack Ridge Sapulpa - Clary Fields, Sapulpa GC Sayre - Sayre Muni GC Seiling - Seiling G&CC Seminole - Jimmie Austin GC Shattuck - Shattuck G&CC Shawnee - Elks G&CC, Firelake GC, Shawnee G&CC Skiatook - Cedar Crest GC Stigler - Brier Creek GC Stillwater - Karsten Creek GC, Lakeside Memorial GC, Links at Stillwater, Stillwater CC Stroud - Stroud Municipal GC Sulphur - Sulphur Hills GC

Tahlequah - Cherokee Trails GC, Cherokee Springs GC, Tahlequah City GC Thackerville - WinStar GC Tishomingo - Tishomingo GC Tulsa -LaFortune Park GC, Meadowbrook CC, Mohawk Park GC, Oaks CC, Page Belcher GC, Par-3 at Lit’l Links, Southern Hills CC, Tulsa CC Velma - Wildhorse GC Verdigris - Stonebridge GC Vian - The Wolf at Tenkiller Walters - Lakeside Park GC Warner - Whispering Meadows.

Watonga - Roman Nose State Park GC, Watonga Muni GC Waurika - Waurika GC Weatherford - Prairie West GC Wewoka - Gil Morgan GC Wilburton - Latimer County GC Wister - Wolf Ridge GC Woodward - Woodward Park GC, Boiling Springs GC Yukon - Golf Club at Surrey Hills, Links at Mustang Creek, Westbury CC

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