Avery Hunsaker

Southern Hills Country Club is a private country club established in 1936 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. MISSION STATEMENT With exceptional service and warm hospitality, we provide our members and their guests the unique Southern Hills experience through recreation, fine dining and social interaction. VISION STATEMENT We are committed to be one of the premier country clubs in the world by providing excellent services and facilities to the membership and their guests, while taking our historic tradition, present values and innovative ideas into the future FACILITIES Southern Hills Country Club includes two golf courses; an 18 hole course, designed by Perry Maxwell and 9 hole created in 1992. The 18 Hole course has held 15 major championships since 1946, including four PGA Championships and three U.S. Opens. In addition, Southern Hills' campus includes a lap pool, activity pool, eight outdoor tennis courts, 4 indoor courts and a full service fitness center. HISTORY Southern Hills Country Club was established in 1936 as a private country club from land donated by oilman Waite Phillips. Despite the recent crash of the stock market, Mr. Phillips’ was approached by Bill Warren and Cecil Canary to finance a new country club. Their vision for a family-oriented club would include a swimming pool, stable, horseback trails, polo field, skeet range, tennis courts, clubhouse and golf course. At this time, golf was not a popular sport and pools were rare. Mr. Phillips immediately noted the more important financial demands of the day. However, he agreed to donate the land for the club if Mr. Warren and Mr. Canary could demonstrate there was a sufficient number of people interested in such a project. Mr. Phillips gave them two weeks to garner pledges from at least 150 Tulsans for $1,000 each, but he would not personally give them a nickel to finance the project. The money was raised and the Clubhouse was constructed in 1936.