AUSTIN, Texas — The Lions Municipal Golf Course, also known as Muny, is celebrating its 100th anniversary as a national Civil Rights Landmark this year. Muny was the first racially integrated golf ...
At dusk, when the patio lights came on and the after-dinner crowd showed up, things got interesting at Butler Pitch & Putt. And, nursing my IPA on a warm spring evening in downtown Austin, I sat at a ...
After nearly a decade near industry lows, the resurgence of golf and its continuing popularity has once again pushed country clubs to the top of the list for people and companies itching to invest in ...
This story has been updated to add photos. Volma Overton III asked the audience to imagine what the trees would say. What would those Heritage trees overlooking Lions Municipal Golf Course — those ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Lions Municipal Golf Course, known informally as MUNY, was the first public golf course in the city of Austin and the first course to desegregate in the South. This upcoming October, ...
Hazel Lemmons has been an Austin resident since 1964 and some of her fondest memories have come at Hancock Golf Course, the nine-hole track nestled between 38th and 41st streets on the city’s north ...
The Horseshoe Bay Resort sits on 6,500-acre Lake LBJ, so there is no shortage of water. This is the 12th hole on the Apple Rock course. Why take a golf vacation to the Austin area? Well, it starts ...
That was Austin mayor Taylor Glass’s response in 1950, after it was reported to him that two Black youths, one of whom worked as a caddie at the city’s only public golf course, Lions Municipal, had ...
The 2024 Austin-area list of public golf courses highlights 25 facilities located in the Austin area. This year ABJ stretched local boundaries to include Lady Bird Johnson Golf Course in ...