Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club

[mike_beene]

Saw OKC Golf & CC hosting college tournament this week. Other than it apparently being a long and narrow property with a busy road going through, difficult to tell much from TV. I know some of you must have seen the course at some point. Is Maxwell still visible?

[Ben Hollerbach]

Unfortunatly its been 20 years since I've last seen the course, I know that Tripp Davis did a "restoration" just a few years ago. But I'd imagine due to the meandering creek and small parcel size that the original routing is still mainly in tact, especially on the back 9.

[Bill Crane]

Curious about this myself.   Other than a lot of slope on the greens these seem to have much less interesting features than you would expect on those designed and built by Maxwell.   At least the few that I have played, which may only be Crystal Downs and Old Town.

[Matt_Cohn]

Unfortunatly its been 20 years since I've last seen the course, I know that Tripp Davis did a "restoration" just a few years ago. But I'd imagine due to the meandering creek and small parcel size that the original routing is still mainly in tact, especially on the back 9.

Ditto on 20 years though it was one of my favorites during my time there. Things get a little weird around 12 and 13. 13 is the boomerang par 5. I would say it’s quite obviously Maxwell, at least the last time I saw it, if you understand that not every Maxwell looks like Prairie Dunes or Old Town! It is an unusual routing with the first hole crossing the driving range and holes 10 through 14 across the road.

[mike_beene]

I will relook at the routing. I can’t figure out the order of the holes across the road. I was confused by the range and that part makes sense. I think I see some Dornick Hills similarities. But not sure I really would if I didn’t know.

[Matt Schoolfield]

1951 aerial:



Accessed via the Oklahoma Historical Aerial Digitization Project. Also see the collection of Oklahoma Aerial Photographs in University of Oklahoma Library.

Details:
ON-2H-1241 SS Oklahoma 1951
Name    ON-2H-1241
CY_Name SS_Oklahoma_1951_mosaic_FP
RecNum  699
CY_Name Oklahoma 1951
SetCounty   Oklahoma
SetYear 1951
SetSource   Oklahoma Geological Survey
SetProgStat SS
OCCacqStat  acquired

[Chris Clouser]

Tripp Davis did a restoration a few years ago.  They expanded the greens to their original sizes and reestablished some of the original fairway widths.  The other major change was elimination of many trees and you can now see across the entire site.  The property is fairly flat and doesn't offer a landscape of Old Town or Prairie Dunes, so trying to compare it to those courses is pointless in most regards.  I walked the grounds with the super last year in a visit and was impressed with the work that brought back some of the undulations in the greens due to taking them back out to the original size.  OKCGCC was still part of Maxwell's early period and at the beginning of his partnership with Mackenzie, so it bears a much stronger resemblance to his early work at Dornick and Twin Hills than what you see at places like Southern Hills, Prairie Dunes, or Old Town.