Dornick Hills G. & C. C.

Dornick Hills holds a special place in golf history as the first course designed and built by Perry Maxwell, the self-taught Ardmore banker later hailed as the "Father of Oklahoma Golf." Maxwell shaped the opening holes on his own former dairy-farm land in the early 1910s, and by 1923 the full eighteen was complete; the club affiliated with the USGA in 1914, an early distinction for the young state. The name comes from a Gaelic word for small rocks, fitting for terrain studded with natural stone outcrops. Its most celebrated feature is the par-five 16th, "The Cliff," where the green sits atop a roughly fifty-foot rock face. The layout later earned a place on the National Register of Historic Places, honoring the minimalist, land-first artistry that Maxwell carried on to Southern Hills and Prairie Dunes.