A new book on the Texas Open's storied 100-year history is a visual and narrative treasure trove for golf fans.
MacDonald Smith swings a golf club at the Texas Open Golf Tournament at Brackenridge Golf Course in 1925. Smith was runner-up in 1925 and won the tournament in 1926.Ask anyone in San Antonio about the evolution of the city’s visitor economy and they likely will cite the Alamo, the River Walk, and maybe the impact of HemisFair ’68 and the opening of the Henry B. González Convention Center.
Palmer won three years in a row, 1960-62, while Crenshaw made his first professional start here after leaving the University of Texas two years shy of graduation and actually won the event. He, too, would go on to win two more times to equal Palmer. In an idle moment, Jack O’Brien, the enterprising sports editor at the San Antonio Evening News, came up with the novel idea of using a golf tournament to boost the city’s winter visitor economy.
It didn’t hurt that Brackenridge, like Oak Hills Country Club and the San Antonio Country Club some years later, was designed by noted golf course architect, a familiar name to pro golfers who had played better-known Tillinghast-designed courses such as Winged Foot on Long Island and Baltusrol in New Jersey.
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