OVERVIEW
TPC San Antonio opened in January 2010 with 36 holes of golf designed by two of golf's most innovative architects: Pete Dye and Greg Norman. Situated on 2,800 rolling acres at the base of the beautiful Texas Hill Country, both the AT&T Canyons Course by Pete Dye and AT&T Oaks Course by Greg Norman are being built with the infrastructure to be host venues for PGA TOUR tournaments.
The AT&T Oaks Course, the home of the Valero Texas Open, reflects the TOUR's departure from the modern tournament style course which featured expansive grass areas and spectator mounding, to a more natural look and feel, a true to nature feel. All this is done without sacrificing the fan experience making it very tournament friendly. Norman's deep reverence for nature is evident in every rugged twist and turn of this spectacular layout, replete with rolling hills, an abundance of mature trees and beautiful indigenous flora.
This world class course is a traditional design that balances narrower tree-lined fairways with wider fairways offering multiple routes and strategic options into the greens. The Oaks course is an intimate design with narrow corridors carved through oak trees with only 100 feet of fall from the highest point of the course to the lowest making it very walker friendly. The bunkers are spectacular and reflect a natural, rugged "minimalist" with edges emulating the canopy of the native oak trees. The course measures 7,435 yards and plays to a par of 72. A unique feature of the course is all downhill holes play into the prevailing wind, while the uphill holes play downwind.
"The topographic subtleties of the rolling Texas Hill Country terrain, framed by magnificent stands of mature live oaks, create a pristine natural setting that is as playable as it is beautiful," said Greg Norman.
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