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Southern Hills Country Club is a private golf and country club.

It is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The club was established in 1935 from land donated by multimillionaire oil magnate Waite Phillips.

With his oil money and with his reputation, Bill Warren and Cecil Canary asked Phillips to sponsor the development of a new country club.

The boosters argued that there was the need for a family-oriented club that would include a swimming pool, stable, horseback trails, polo field, skeet range, tennis courts, clubhouse and golf course.

Phillips was initially skeptical of this proposition, and in response, he told Warren and Canary that they had a couple of weeks to assume 150 pledges to become members of this club, with each of those pledges paying $1,000 each, to ensure his cooperation.

The construction costs were raised by the founding members.

The clubhouse, designed in “English country manor” style by Tulsa architects John Duncan Forsyth and Donald McCormick, opened on October 17, 1936.

The clubhouse was extensively renovated during a three-year project prior to the 2007 PGA tournament.

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).

Southern Hills is the only course to host the PGA Championship four times, and hosted its fifth PGA Championship in 2022.

Southern Hills also hosted the first-ever U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur in 1987, and in 1946,  the USGA Women’s Amateur was also played there.