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Southern Hills Country Club is a private golf and country club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Welcome to Southern Hills Country Club, a private, member-owned country club located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Southern Hills Country Club is best known for its Championship Golf Course, which is recognized among the top 100 courses in the world and has been the host to 17 Championships since 1945.
Southern Hills Country Club was established in 1935 as a private country club. The land that is now Southern Hills Country Club was donated by oilman Waite Phillips. When the stock market crashed, Mr. Phillips’ fortune was almost totally liquid; it was estimated to be approximately $50 million.
While the golf course was under construction, the swimming pool, polo field, skeet range, tennis courts, stables and bridle paths opened in 1935. Opening day for the golf course was May 23, 1936 when 29 members teed off. Over time, the course began to mature and soon was recognized as one of the best in the country.
- Woods has looked both mortal and unbeatable. At the 2001 U.S. Open, Woods was 26 and the winner of four consecutive major championships. That run ended at Southern Hills.
- Perry Maxwell put his stamp on it. Perry Maxwell started as a bank vice president who decided he could design a golf course on his dairy farm. He became the awe-inspiring, incredibly prolific “Father of Oklahoma Golf.”
- Gil Hanse restored the luster. When they took on the task of restoring Southern Hills in 2018, Gil Hanse, Jim Wagner and crew had a skeptic eying them from afar: Legendary Oklahoma head pro Jerry Cozby, whose workplace for 41 years had been another Perry Maxwell gem, Hillcrest CC, 45 miles away.
- Three holes stand above the rest. Give him a chair and time and Gil Hanse knows where he’s headed. “No. 10 is a cool hole. It’s probably where I’d camp out,” he told Andy Johnson on The Fried Egg podcast.
May 16, 2022 · The Clubhouse at Southern Hills Country Club was destined to be the largest construction job in the Tulsa area in the 15 years of the Great Depression and World War II from 1930 to 1945. Donald McCormick and John Forsyth took the job as a joint venture.
May 16, 2022 · Southern Hills Country Club (Tulsa, Okla.), designed by Perry Maxwell with more recent course work done by Gil Hanse, is a brawny golf course with a major championship pedigree.
