Let me start by saying, “I love Southern Hills.” In 2014, while I was working for the Texas Golf Association I had the opportunity to also do a lot of creative work for the Trans-Miss Golf Association. Southern Hills Country Club, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, hosted the 2014 Trans-Mississippi Amateur Championship.
During our site visit, Dave Prinz and I had the incredible honor of playing a round there with Head Pro Dave Bryan and Superintendent Kris Davis. It was later in the afternoon and the four of us had the course to ourselves.
Southern Hills Country Club is best known for its Championship Golf Course, which is recognized among the top 100 courses in the world and has been the host to 16 Championships since 1945.
Southern Hills has hosted seven major championships for men, including the U.S. Open three times (1958, 1977, 2001) and four PGA Championships (1970, 1982, 1994, 2007). It is the only course to host the PGA Championship four times and is currently hosting its fifth PGA Championship this week. Southern Hills also hosted the first-ever U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur in 1987, and the USGA Women’s Amateur was played at Southern Hills in 1946.
During our site visit in 2014, one of my jobs was to create a promo video for the Championship, which you can watch here:
The field that year was particularly strong and included 2022 Master’s Champion Scottie Scheffler and 2020 U.S. Open Champion Bryson DeChambeau. Will Zalatoris, who has also had much success so far on the PGA Tour ended up winning that year. Read the full press release here. I love shooting golf tournaments and here are a few of my favorite images from that event.
