Southern Hills Country Club, 2636 East Sixty-first Street, Tulsa

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Originally designed by renowned golf course architect Perry Duke Maxwell in the Southern Hills Country Club has served as a beautiful respite for the upper echelon of Tulsa citizens. In addition, it has been the site of some of golfs biggest championship events to date, including three U.S. Opens, four PGA Championships, and two PGA Tour Championships, as well as a number of U.S. Amateur Championships. In the course was renovated by golf course architect Keith Foster. History: The Southern Hills Country Club was established in on land donated by Oklahoma oilman Waite Phillips and financed largely based on fund-raising efforts led by Tulsans Bill Warren and Cecil Canary. Over 150 Tulsans donated money for the start of the project.

The famed golf architect and Oklahoma native Perry Duke Maxwell was hired to design the eighteen-hole course. He had previously worked on the development of Augusta National in Georgia, Crystal Downs Country Club in Michigan, the Ohio State University Golf Course, and the Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. Maxwell is known for capitalizing on the natural contours and the naturalistic native elements of the land in his course layouts. Today, Southern Hills Country Club is home to twenty-seven holes of golf. In addition to the eighteen-hole Championship Golf Course designed by Maxwell and renovated by Keith Foster in there is a nine-hole course designed by Ben Crenshaw in Other amenities include two swimming pools, twelve tennis courts, pro shop, and a dining facility.

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Steve Eilers, December 15, West Stillwater, OK steve. eilers (alokstate.edu SOUTHERN HILLS COUNTRY CLUB HALS. OK-36 PAGE 2 Dr. Charles Leider Professor and Director of the Landscape Architecture Program Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Department 360 AG Hall Stillwater, OK Office: charles.leiderfalokstate.edu Southern Hills Country Club (" Perry Duke Maxwell," Encyclopedia of Oklahom a History and Culture: accessed November 21, SOUTHERN HILLS COUNTRY CLUB HALS. OK-36 PAGE 3 * T$ $ * A Southern Hills Country Club accessed November 21,