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EP. 6: The Texas Open, Our First Tournament

In 1921, San Antonio Evening News sports editor Jack O’Brien read two wire stories back to back: the winner of the U.S. Open had earned $500, and an upcoming prize fight would pay $25,000. That arithmetic built the oldest golf tournament in Texas. O’Brien put an unheard-of $5,000 purse on the line, recruited golf course…

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EP. 5: The First Muni- Brackenridge Park

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,…

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