Pecan Valley Golf Club, RIP: Editors' Blog: Golf Digest

Pecan Valley Golf Club, RIP

Saturday, January 21, 2012 Comments

It's been way too common this year, on twitter, on the web, in our magazines, that we hear about another course closing. It's especially sad when that course has played an important role in the game's history, was designed by one of the game's outstanding architects, and has hosted a major. Or, in this case, all three:Pecan ValleyGolf Club in San Antonio, designed by Perry Maxwell, home to the 1963 PGA Championship won by Julius Boros. The announcement, earlier this month:

"As of January 9, 2012 Pecan Valley Golf Club is no longer open for golf. Ownership has decided to cease operations during the off-season months to investigate all viable options for the Pecan Vally Golf Course. Please check back with us at this website for updates on the course's status early this spring."

The closing drew this letter from a Texas pastor.

I was saddened to read of the closing of Pecan Valley Golf Course. I played there only one time, but was paired with a man with a bucket-list of playing every public accessible course that had hosted either the US Open or the PGA Championship. His driver had an extra-long shaft to compensate for a short left arm. He contracted polio as a kid and his left arm, besides being shorter, had no strengthen. However, his left wrist was fused in the perfect supinated position from Hogan's "Five Fundamentals." That day he beat me like a drum at a high school pep rally. Pecan Valley may be closed but it gave me one of my great experiences in the game of golf.

Pastor Allen Mosiman Corpus Christi, TX

Well said, Allen.

Bob Carney

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