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Lions Municipal

Since 1934 Austinites have been playing through on this 141-acre, 6,000-yard public golf course on the southern edge of the Tarrytown neighborhood. Sixty-seven thousand rounds of golf are played here every year, and the course was the first integrated golf course in the South. One of the oldest amateur tournaments, the Firecracker Open is still played there every summer – among the winners over the years are golf legends Tom Kite (in 1968) and Ben Crenshaw (in 1969 and 1971). Still, the future of this city treasure is in doubt: The city's lease on the land expires in 2019, and the University of Texas Regents have been exploring ways to develop the land that would create more revenue for the school. Will the Muny be saved? We'll have to wait and see.

Lions Municipal Golf Course
2901 Enfield, 512/477-6963
www.austintexas.gov