For about forty years, one of the most important tournaments in American professional golf was played on a course you could walk onto for less than a dollar. It sits in a river bottom in the middle of San Antonio, on land that had already served as a Spanish colonial irrigation works, a Confederate tannery, a horse track, and an Army camp before anyone thought to build a golf course. The zoo down the road exists because the golf course needed the pasture. It even played a role in the design of Mount Rushmore! It’s sometimes called “Old Brack”. A great architect designed it, and the great players of the day played it.  You can too. Episode 5 of Wise About Golf tells the story of how a hundred acres of San Antonio river bottom became the first 18-hole municipal golf course in Texas.

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