Austin Country Club

Pete Dye designed Austin Country Club's current routing in 1984 on a piece of Lake Austin, Texas hillside land — the third location the club has operated from since its 1899 founding. The first site was downtown Austin (1899-1949), the second was off Riverside Drive (1949-1984), and the current Pete Dye routing on Lake Austin became the championship-rotation venue. Dye routed the eighteen holes through the Edwards Plateau limestone hillside with the Colorado River as the right-side boundary for several holes. The site's combination of elevation changes (130 feet of vertical) and the lake exposure produced a Texas course that plays nothing like the prairie and hill-country routings elsewhere in the state.

The course plays around 7,151 yards par 71 from the championship markers, with bermuda fairways and a slope in the low 140s. Austin Country Club hosted the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play from 2016 through 2023, giving the course significant Tour exposure during the match-play format's prime years. Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson, and Jason Day have all won the event on the routing. The thirteenth hole is a 198-yard par-3 with a green tucked into a limestone cliff face; the seventeenth, a 426-yard par-4 with a tee shot played over a creek to a fairway that bends right, is the routing's most-televised hole from the match-play years.

Austin Country Club is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Austin business and professional families with multi-generation ties through the club's pre-1984 era. The Pete Dye design and the lake setting have given the modern club its identity, but the historical connection to early-1900s Texas golf — the club hosted Tom Penick, Harvey Penick, and Ben Crenshaw across multiple generations — gives the membership a depth most modern country clubs lack.

Central Texas climate gives Austin a playing season of February through November, with the firmest conditions in March and October. Summer afternoons run hot and humid; the smart member play is morning rounds through July and August. The Lake Austin breeze gives the property reliable afternoon cooling. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps.