Found these digging through an old HDD. Spent most of my 20's and 30's out there. I thought I'd share for all of us olds that used to play there.

It was the first place I played at when I got down to school. 18 holes with a cart seemed like $20… maybe my memory is fuzzy.

Lots of great memories playing with former A&M golf coach, Coach Ellis for big money (a coke or Pepsi) when we didn't feel like doing the same at the Campus Course.

Wish I knew how good I had it at the time! Great times.

AggieP18 said:

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It was the first place I played at when I got down to school. 18 holes with a cart seemed like $20… maybe my memory is fuzzy.

Lots of great memories playing with former A&M golf coach, Coach Ellis for big money (a coke or Pepsi) when we didn't feel like doing the same at the Campus Course.

Wish I knew how good I had it at the time! Great times.

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This^

Loved that place, lots of good memories. Thanks for posting.

Wow the good ole days!!!!

Remember when you got a GHIN card? Got a new sticker every month to update your handicap!

6 months into the year and I already had 50 rounds in, not counting scrambles and Friday Oilfield scores! So probably 75-100 rounds by June! Man I played a lot of golf!

Won and lost my beer money out there. Great times.

Worked maintenance out there 10+ years ago. Nearly sunk a tee mower into the small pond behind the senior tees on 6. We all had designated nights we'd have to water the tees and greens. Each green had a key that would turn the pop up sprinklers on, hopefully. Everything else was plugging single sprinklers in couplers. Often times they'd explode in your face because everything was so old. We did our part to control the nutria population while we waiting on a green or tee to finish. You could only run a few at a time because the pressure wasn't that great. Sometimes you could get away with running multiple on opposite ends of the course. During the summer when we'd have to run each tee/green for close to an hour it wasn't uncommon to be out there until 2-3am but you got the next day off.

Being on that side of town it wasn't uncommon to be driving in the pitch black on the toro only to turn a corner and shine the lights on a crackhead walking the course. Talk about scaring the **** out of you. I bought my first Glock because of that job and it ride in the glovebox with me. Before I left it got to the point we developed a relationship with Bryan PD because they'd often have to come sit in the parking lot because we'd hear gunshots.

Threw my girlfriend (now wife) out of the toro once chasing a fox. A member ended up killing it with a 9 iron one morning. Word was it had rabies but idk if they sent it off or if it was just suspected since it came close to people.

Heading to The Masters with my brother and good friend tomorrow. All 3 of us went from working at the old A&M course to Muni when A&M closed for the remodel.

I loved playing in those Friday Oilfield tournaments.

Thanks for posting. Still my favorite course. Tons of great memories. Sometimes you just connect with the earth, the dirt and a place in a visceral way that remains the same the rest of your life.

I have driven through the new park several times and though much of it is unrecognizable compared to 20 years ago, I can feel and tell you exactly where I am on the old course.

When I played there, even walking the course mostly alone on a hot July afternoon / evening as the emerging sounds of a Travis Park baseball game next door announced the end of the day, I knew how good I had it. I just never thought about the day it would end.

We had a small guys tournament there for awhile the first Friday in June until the big API tourney took that date from us. In the mid 90's we even made a yardage book of Muni for our own gig, bet you've never seen this before.......

J.I.C.Y.F.U.

I'd love to see the entire book. And I was in the "J.I.C.Y.F.U." position so many times on that hole. 5-wood to the green from back there.

AgDotCom said:

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In the mid 90's we even made a yardage book of Muni

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Around 95-96 me and Jeremy Stone (old assistant pro/manager) and I got ahold of a laser range finder that a surveyor left out there. It had a "paddle" you had to hold down range for the laser to pick up, and so, before he came back to pick it up the next day Stoney and I raced out and shot all of the concrete yardage markers in the fairways. I had long been suspicious of #4 red marker and #7 red marker as well as the red on #9. My suspicions were confirmed and we jotted down all of them in a small Central Electric notebook that I have long since lost.

#4 red marker was not 100, it was 84yds tc, #7 was 105 tc, and #9 was 88 tc.

So many good memories out there at Bryan Muni. Its where I learned to play on my crappy starter set.

I remember thinking how narrow and scary the tee shot on 10 was with the road on the left. Hooked more than my share into oncoming traffic

I got to Texas in 92 from SoCal (LA) where I played high school and junior golf. I started playing in the weekly BGC skins games with a group of cool, old, salty golfers. They took me in as one of their own and I spent the next 2 decades playing 100-200 rounds a year at the old BGC ("home of the 2 dollar green fee" remember that?), where I made some lasting friendships. Some of those guys are still around, playing in the BGA and skins games at Briarcrest to this very day.

I left golf from 2004 to 2019, started a business, got married, had a kid etc, then came back to the game I have had a love affair with since I was 8. I am fatter, older and living with 4 rods and 11 plates in my neck. I can't hit it out of my own shadow anymore but still have my days when the irons are crisp and the putter is working and I am a handful to beat!

When I came to Texas I was 22 and a 3 handicap, I knew how to play golf. I learned the game of golf at BGC. Those days of slamming beer and gambling with men twice my age are days I will never forget and hold a dear place in my heart. RIP Bob Hotard, Daryl Ballinger, Billybob Lane, Spec Gammon etc.

I now usually have my 11yo daughter in tow with me who has played since she could walk. She shows off at the skins games driving greens from the forward tees and hitting flop shots while driving the cart for me. History is repeating itself.

In 2020, when she was 6, we got paired with 2 strangers at Moody Gardens course. She pulls her tee out of her Aggie hair bow, tees it up and then, before she hits, turns around to the guys we are paired with and says "Guys, we playing for something or just playing?" The busts it down the middle. I could hear DB laughing from heaven!!!!

The greatest game ever devised by man. RIP BGC

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I'd love to see the entire book. And I was in the "J.I.C.Y.F.U." position so many times on that hole. 5-wood to the green from back there.

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I'll post one or two holes every other day or so if / when I have time, and you can comment on any particular memories / experiences you may have had on that hole, whether golf related or, ahem.......semi-golf related. Might be fun to hear them.

Bob Hotard, that's a name I hadn't heard in a while. That guy was a trip. I remember playing with him around '99-03.

I once was playing in an AGC tourney there and all four of us in our group hit our balls onto #3 green. As soon as we got in the carts and headed around the bend towards the green, a couple of "kids" from the basketball courts behind the green jumped the fence and grabbed our balls off the green and ran back into the park. I was pissed then now I think it's comical.

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I gotta say, that's a pretty friendly ball drop on #2.

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Agreed. But with the players characters we had, if we didn't have that ball drop we'd be out there all day. Our "tournament" was actually one event of a triathlon, the other two being skeet shooting and 42 dominos. We had around 40 - 50 players, it was funny that each person was usually pretty good, some even elite at one of the three events, but sucked ass at another. Our calcuttas would go north of $40k sometimes, which were big bucks 30 years ago. What you sold for determined if you were an A or B player. We'd then draw teams, combining one A and one B together for a team.

One year on #1 tee, the day after my partner and I had won the 42 competition, my partner was nervous because we were in the hunt for the title and money. He was left handed, and after a few morning beers to try to calm his nerves, smoked / hooked his tee shot dead right, high over the practice green into the middle of the lake. Have never seen anything come close to that on #1 before or since. If you've ever teed off on #1, you know how hard it would be to hit it over the practice green left handed, it's almost like hitting it behind you.

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Thanks so much for sharing. I absolutely love it. What a cool and authentic trip down memory lane.

I gotta say, that's a pretty friendly ball drop on #2.

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Had a similar drop area on #3

If those drop areas weren't there there would have been some miserable weekends for pace of play

I put so many balls into the water on #2 it was ridiculous. There are probably a bunch of my Top Flite Magnas sitting at the bottom of that lake.

They used to have a sign saying to not retrieve your ball due to arsenic contamination, but if we could see it, we were getting it back.

That 1,2,3 was a brutal start for a course with no range. Worked out there in 06-07 and played the course probably 200 times over summer. Confident I could go out there and shoot low again even now just based on muscle memory if it was still there

A few more old pics.

My 2yo on 17



16 tee



7 tee from 6 green



1 tee

I created a public Facebook group to share old pics. AgDotCom would love for you to share that yardage book there. Feel free to share pics or sketches or anything else on that page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4102087046783113