Bill Mehlhorn (1898-1989), frequently known as “Wild Bill,” wasn’t from the Wild West, but Elgin, Ill., who got involved in golf at an early age. He was called “Wild Bill” because he could go “wild” shooting a string of low scores, but he always wore a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, adding to the belief he’d been…

Bill Mehlhorn (1898-1989), frequently known as “Wild Bill,” wasn’t from the Wild West, but Elgin, Ill., who got involved in golf at an early age. He was called “Wild Bill” because he could go “wild” shooting a string of low scores, but he always wore a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, adding to the belief he’d been…

Cruickshank won 17 tour events in his career and his greatest year was 1927, when he won the Los Angeles and Texas Opens and finished as the leading money winner for the year. His last victory on tour was in 1936 and he had 16 top-10 finishes in major championships.

Macdonald “Mac” Smith (March 18, 1890 – August 31, 1949) was one of the top professional golfers in the world from about 1910 into the mid-1930s. He was a member of a famous Scottish golfing family. Smith is regarded, based on his results, as one of the best golfers of all time who never won a major championship.…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feb. 14. — Joe Turnesa, youthful pro from Elmsford, N.Y., staged a comeback in the Texas open today and nosed Macdonald Smith of San Francisco out by one stroke for the title. Turnesa had 144, 140 — 284 for his two day’s play, while Smith’s score was 140, 145 — 285.

Joe Kirkwood, Rockwood Hall (N.Y.) professional, won the Texas open golf championship here today with a score of 279 for the seventy-two holes, seven strokes ahead of James Ockenden, French open champion, and George Kerrigan of Long Beach, Cal., who were tied for second place.

Walter Hagen, American holder of the British Open championship, won the Texas Open golf championship here today when William Mehlhorn of Shreveport, La., who tied with Hagen yesterday for the title with a 279 for the seventy-two holes medal play, took a six on the eighteenth hole, losing to Hagen by one stroke.

In 1922, Bob MacDonald won the inaugural Texas Open by one shot over Cyril Walker. Now 100 years later, the Valero Texas Open is the oldest Professional Golf Tour tournament to have been held in the same city its entire existence!

An adjacent building to the Brackenridge Park Golf Clubhouse once served as the working studio for artist Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor who created the heads of the U.S. Presidents on Mount Rushmore. The structure was built in 1885 from local limestone and timbers to serve as a water pumping station. In 1905, the pump house became obsolete…

The original clubhouse was a small one-story building that burned down in 1920. In 1922, the City hired Ralph H. Cameron to design and build a new clubhouse for the golf course and the Texas Open. $8,000 was raised by the City for clubhouse construction. Cameron designed other notable San Antonio buildings, including the Scottish…