Back in January, I was trying to set up a game at Roy Kizer, the "New" course in Austin (since 1994). It didn't work out then and that was a good thing. At that time we were in town for a wedding, and a game of golf would have ate up the schedule.
Fast forward (recall the cassette tape) to August. Golf game now complete. I played today with old friend Clint and his friend Tomas and Tomas' son Diego (7) came along too.
Kizer has the repututation of the best city course in Austin. It is billed as a links course (not many trees) but it does share the same tree-ed sides with its brother course Jimmy Clay right next door. The links holes were pretty straightforward but the tree-ed holes (my word) were excellent. Some good holes were 16 (short part 4) and 17 (called Captain Hook). 9 and 18 were fine finishing holes. The area of the course called Cliffside was scenic, particularly the waste area in the middle of the course. It takes into account the nearly McKinney Falls and the shallow limestone formations.
Roy Kizer was the longtime greenskeeper at my old home course of Lions Municipal and during the 80s there was a junior tournament at Muny called the Roy Kizer. So it is fitting that they named this fine "new" course after him.
Next on the schedule is the renovated Morris Williams Course set to be complete in 2013. Nice to see redevelopment of existing facilities instead of suburban sprawl.
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