A Work of Art - Alamo City Golf Trail

If you've ever played Brackenridge Park, you drove right past some true works of art. The “Mill Race Bridge” by San Antonio artist Diana Kersey uses 24 ceramic panels integrated into the cement guardrails of the bridge. Installed in 2011, each unique insert features designs that portray various golf scenes, referencing the historic relevance of the game to Brackenridge Park. The panels depict complex and colorful Art Deco designs in addition to hidden stylized golf balls. The center panel of each insert depicts a motif unique to Brackenridge: the golfer represented on the weather-vane of the clubhouse. The exterior uses a more decorative patterning, using geometric designs that incorporate imagery from the interior, but in a visually repetitive and rhythmic manner.

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The weather vane that once stop atop the clubhouse.

Artist Gutzon Borglum shaped the model that became the massive faces for Mount Rushmore in the old San Antonio River Pump house #2. Which is now known as the Borglum Studio. Gutzon traveled back and forth from the Alamo City to the Black Hills of South Dakota in preparation of the project. Borglum lived to see each of the four faces emerge on the mountainside, but his son Lincoln finished the last details of his father’s masterpiece after his death in 1941.

George Washington Brackenridge donated 100-plus acres of land to the city to create Brackenridge Park, the park in which the present day Brackenridge Park Golf Course is located.

Mill Race Bridge

Queenie was “the companion of San Antonio Evening News Sports Editor Jack O'Brien,” says Reid Meyers, author of “The Ghosts of Old Brack: A Pictorial History of the Brackenridge Park Golf Course.” In his column, O'Brien promoted golf as a tourism magnet as well as the building of the Brackenridge clubhouse. He also was an organizer of the first Texas Open, in 1922, which attracted “all the great touring pros of the day,” writes Meyers, whose book includes many clubhouse photos, including one of Queenie, hung in the late 1920s, that appears to have inspired Kersey's ceramic rendering.

An ode to the groups of women and men golf associations that have played at Brackenridge over the years.

Prior to highway 281, Elizabeth Schriever operated a small but popular sandwich stand for the golfers in the back yard. near what was then the 12th tee.

Course designer A. W. Tillinghast was one of the most prolific architects in the history of golf; he worked on more than 265 different courses. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2015.

A video of Diana Kersey building one of the panels that was eventually installed at the entrance to Brackenridge Golf Course in 2011