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Following the recommendation of a 1913 report which identified the then-rural area between Main Street and Brays Bayou as ideal for a large urban park, real estate investor and entrepreneur George H. Hermann, who owned most of the area and served on the city's parks board, bequeathed his estate to Houston for use as a public green space in 1914.
The golf courses took up 400 acres (160 ha) of land. In 2007 Renaissance Golf Group indicated it was considering selling the golf courses. [2] By then the country club property had fallen into a state of disrepair. [17] Area residents had concerns over how the sale would affect their property values. The Quail Valley Fund initially had plans to ...
The Babe Zaharias Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1953 to 1967. [1] [2] It was played in Beaumont, Texas at the Beaumont Country Club from 1953 to 1964 and at the Bayou Din Golf Club from 1965 to 1967. Babe Zaharias, LPGA co-founder and Beaumont resident, hosted the tournament until her death in 1956. She won the first edition ...
The park includes the 18-hole Memorial Park Golf Course, Texas's top-rated municipal golf course. Formerly the site of a nine-hole course launched in 1912, it was completely redesigned by John Bredemus and opened 89 years ago in 1936. The course rating is 75.0 with a slope rating of 130 from its back tees. [6]
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After the initial success in 2003, leaders of the Bayou Bowl decided to donate proceeds to the Shriner's Hospitals for Children in Galveston and Houston. In 2007, the Bayou Bowl raised $33,000 for the Shriner's Hospitals. Most of the money was raised by the Bayou Bowl Celebrity Golf Tournament. [1]
The facility was known as Redstone Golf Club until December 2013, and is now the Golf Club of Houston. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Previously held weeks later in mid-spring, the Houston Open was played the week before the Masters Tournament from 2007 through 2018 (except 2013 , when it was two weeks before the Masters), and was the last chance to get into the ...
The Clear Lake City Community Association, Inc. (CLCAA) operates the Kermet H. Applewhite Sports and Recreation Center at 16511 Diana Lane. The center includes an indoor heated pool, a fitness room, several outdoor pools, an air-conditioned gymnasium, and tennis courts. [5] The Clear Lake Golf Course opened in 1963 and closed in 2005. [38]