After more than 50 years of negotiations, one of Texas’s oldest public golf courses, a landmark in the state’s civil rights progress, has received a lifeline to stay open.
On Wednesday, the City of Austin and The University of Texas at Austin announced a proposed agreement to transfer ownership of Lions Municipal Golf Course—known publicly as Muny—to the city, with a focus on preserving open public green space and the historic public course. The golf course, which opened in 1924 on over 140 acres of university-owned property along Lady Bird Lake, occupies land the City of Austin began leasing from the UT in 1937 as part of the greater Brackenridge Tract.
The deal would amend the 1989 Brackenridge Development Agreement between the two entities, which outlined how the University could use the land it owned on either side of Lake Austin Boulevard for private development…