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…

The golf course experienced a revival in 2008 after a $4.5 million renovation. Architect John Colligan restored fifteen of the original 18 holes; the course now measures 6,243 yards from the back tees (par-71) and occupies only 113 acres of urban green space.