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Southern Hills West
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Southern Hills’ West Nine opened in 1992 as a Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw design. Added to the existing Championship Course, it gave the Club 27 holes of golf and a second architectural lineage, more than half a century after Perry Maxwell’s original eighteen opened.35
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- 1992
- Holes
- 9
- Par
- 35
- Club location
- Tulsa Oklahoma
Nine holes from changing recreation
Its site reflects changes in the way members used the property. Southern Hills had originally offered riding, polo and skeet shooting alongside golf. The stables burned in 1976, while use of the polo field and skeet range declined. That land became available for a different recreational purpose.1
The Club engaged Coore and Crenshaw to turn the former activity grounds into nine additional holes. The West therefore belongs to the history of Southern Hills’ expansion: it was a new course on repurposed land, rather than a restoration of Maxwell’s Championship Course.13
The commission also carried a connection beyond Tulsa. William K. Warren Jr., Southern Hills’ board president in 1991, worked with Coore and Crenshaw on the West Nine. Contemporary coverage of Notre Dame’s Warren Golf Course dedication records that this relationship led to their selection for the university’s course.4
When Southern Hills later brought in Hanse and Wagner for work beginning in 2018, the stated restoration target was the Championship Course. The West Nine’s 1992 authorship remains separate from that project and from Maxwell’s original commission.2
Course design
Sources and record notes9 references
Sources for this history
- History: Commitment to Excellence
Southern Hills Country Club
1934-1936 funding and Maxwell construction; recreation facilities; 1976 stables fire; 1992 West Nine; 2018 restoration.
Consulted 2026-09-15 - Behind the Scenes of Gil Hanse’s Historic Restoration of Southern Hills
PGA of America
2018-2019 restoration: Maxwell research, short grass, tree removal, reopened creeks and green edges.
Consulted 2026-09-15 - Golf
Southern Hills Country Club
27 holes: Championship Course attributed to Maxwell, West Nine to Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, opened 1992. Championship count is historical and not reused as current.
Consulted 2026-09-15 - Warren Golf Course dedication coverage
The Observer / University of Notre Dame Archives
May 2, 2000, page 6: William K. Warren Jr., Southern Hills presidency in 1991, West Nine collaboration and subsequent Notre Dame commission.
Consulted 2026-09-15 - Southern Hills Country Club
PGA of America
2022 venue guide: Championship Course origin, restoration, opening and finishing hole descriptions.
Consulted 2026-09-15
Course record sources
- Club mark sourceClub Mark
- Southern Hills Country ClubCourse record
- Southern Hills Country Club: Our Club historyCourse opening
- Southern Hills official historyCoore & Crenshaw · Original design · 1992