Onion Creek Club in south Austin plays the only course designed by Jimmy Demaret, plus a Coore and Crenshaw nine, and gave rise to the Legends of Golf and today's PGA Tour Champions.
Onion Creek Club in south Austin holds a special place in golf history. It opened in 1974 as the only course designed by three-time Masters champion Jimmy Demaret, and in 1978 it hosted the first Legends of Golf, the event that led to the senior tour now known as PGA Tour Champions.
The course
The club has 27 holes: Demaret’s original 18 plus a nine designed by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore in the 1990s. The club has also hosted LPGA events and championship qualifying, and its history is displayed in a “Legends Hallway” in the clubhouse.
In October 2013, the Halloween flood submerged much of the course and caused millions in damage. The course was restored with new greens and bunkers and reopened in phases in 2014, per Reporting Texas.
The club
Arcis Golf has owned Onion Creek since 2019. The club offers a practice facility with a short-game area, tennis on clay and hard courts, a pool open most of the year, a fitness center, dining and kids’ clinics, per Arcis. Membership categories include full, young executive, limited, social and non-resident. Fees are not published.
The neighborhood
The Onion Creek neighborhood in the 78747 ZIP code was built around the club across roughly 750 acres, with homes by several regional builders. It is served by Austin ISD.
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- Onion Creek Club, Arcis Golf
- Flood-damaged golf course to be restored by summer, Reporting Texas, 2014-05-14
- Arcis Golf acquires all of the assets of Dominion Golf Group, Arcis Golf, 2019-04-23
