The Links At Audubon

This city of Memphis course first opened in the early 1950s during the first country’s first great post-World War II boom of municipal golf offering easy access and a simple but enjoyable layout for residents of all skill levels. As needs, golf popularity and economies changed through the decades, a new program was called for and the city and Memphis Parks hired Atlanta-based designer. Bill Bergin to reimagine what the Links at Audubon could represent for Memphis golfers. Bergin essentially designed a new course over the top of the old property, creating an entirely new 18-hole routing that makes more efficient use of the available land, filling empty space with original holes and converting an unused seven-acre parcel on the west side of the property into a flexible 10-acre practice range that will be used by both residents and the University of Memphis golf team. Bergin’s bunkering is sparse but impactful, forcing players to think through their plans for each hole, and the enlarged greens offer more nuance, more diverse recovery options and a variety of changing hole locations. The course reopened August of 2023.