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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.