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This category contains articles about golf clubs and courses in Oklahoma. Pages in category "Golf clubs and courses in Oklahoma" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The course was founded in 1911 by 300 Oklahoma City residents. The course, designed by architect Perry Maxwell, measures 6,861 yards from the championship tees and plays to a par 71 with a course rating of 73.5 and a slope of 130. The course features tree-lined fairways throughout the rolling hills.
The most significant tributary of Deer Creek is Bluff Creek (and upstream to Lake Hefner, a major water reservoir and recreational lake in Oklahoma City. [5] Deer Creek Public Schools takes its name from the creek. [citation needed] Most of the creek's path goes through the northern portions of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
Oklahoma City (/ ˌ oʊ k l ə ˈ h oʊ m ə-/ ⓘ), officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, [9] its population ranks 20th among United States cities and 8th in the Southern United States.
The tournament first played in the 1920s under the name Oklahoma City Open. After a hiatus of nearly three decades, the PGA Tour returned to Oklahoma City in the 1950s. The 1962–1967 events were held at Quail Creek Golf & Country Club. [1] [2]
1965–1966 PGA National Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 1968 Quail Creek Golf & Country Club and Twin Hills Golf & Country Club, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 1970–1972 Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, Pennsylvania (an 18-hole, par-71 championship course that opened in 1959, and was originally designed by Dick Wilson.
The course and slope rating is 79.3/155 from the tournament tees and 76.4/153 from the championship tees. Each hole has its own name, and some holes are named after famous courses or golf holes. The signature hole is the fifth hole (named Oak Tree), a 592-yard par five where players must avoid the oak tree that is used in the club's logo.
The spark for a career in golf came when his wife showed him an article in Scribner's Magazine about the National Golf Links of America in Southampton, New York.After consulting with Charles B. Macdonald, the founder and architect of the club on Long Island, Maxwell proceeded to lay out four holes on a dairy farm he owned just north of Ardmore, a property that would eventually evolve into ...