Category Archives: Oklahoma Golf Trail

Kickingbird golf course reimagined for $17 Million!!

Kickingbird is a municipal golf course located 20 minutes north of Oklahoma City off US 77 at Danforth to the west. It’s a 1971 design that been recently re-imagined to the tune of $5 Million and includes a Trackman range and short game area as well as an 18 hole, championship course. It’s been under a $17 Million renovation over the past two years It was redesigned by Matt Dusenberry, whose municipal work has included Keney Park renovation of the Devereux Emmet many has received various honors as well as his Sandhill Crane update.

The course is a parkland design with generally broad fairway corridors bordered by mature hardwoods with a couple of ponds in play and a scattering of sand bunkers. There’s variety of interesting green complexes including punch bowl, Biarritz, lion’s mouth in addition to a number of greens with false fronts, and undulating swales. There’s four sets of tees from 5,051 yards to 6,922 yards, the white tees are 5,758 yards, 67.6/111, course/slope ratings, originally designed by Floyd Farley and redesigned by Matt Dusenberry in 2023.

Shangri-La Resort, yet another new reason to stop for golf in Oklahoma!

Battlefield Golf Course at Shangri-La Resort

The venerable Shangri-La Resort with 27 holes of championship golf is on Monkey Island and Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees. It’s located 80 miles northeast of Tulsa and will be unveiling The Battlefield, a new 18-hole, par-3 layout in May,

The course sits on 80 wild acres of tumbling land with over 100 feet of elevation change as it moves from the top of the property down to Grand Lake. It provides a variety of distances from 110 yards to 245 yards though a series of creeks, waterfalls, and rock outcroppings,  It was designed by Virginia based Tom Clark of Ault, Clark & Associates who actually worked on the redesign of the existing courses here.