Best golf courses near Tulsa, OK

A product of the Great Depression, funded by Phillips Petroleum money and constructed by hundreds of workers who stood at the gate each morning hoping for a 25-cents-per-hour job that day, Southern Hills is architect Perry Maxwell’s great achievement. Nearly every hole bends left or right, posing critical tee shots that must risk something. The putting surfaces have the classic “Maxwell Rolls,” and most are guarded by simple yet effective bunkers. During the summer of 2018, architect Gil Hanse and crew rebuilt much of the course, in the process re-establishing Maxwell’s distinctive, gnarly edged bunkering and reconstructing the green shoulders that had been built up over the years.

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Page Belcher is a 36-hole public facility in Tulsa with two championship layouts. Olde Page was the original course and opened in 1977, with the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links being played on it a decade later in 1988. The challenging layout tips out at over 6,800 yards and plays over rolling terrain with subtle greens.