Mustang Creek Golf Course • Taylor

Mustang Creek Golf Course • Taylor

By Suzanne Haberman Friday, 10 July 2009

The Mustang Creek Golf Course is the 14th oldest golf course in Texas. The nine-hole course opened in 1915 and spans approximately 60 acres of Taylor’s southern hills.

“One of the great things that makes Mustang Creek so special is the people that play there, the people that work there and the people that own it,” said Tim Mikeska, chairman of the golf course. “We’re all a big family.”

The golf course changed management in 1986. The country club board sold it for $100,000 to pay off debt accumulated after renovation costs from a kitchen fire “got out of control,” said Ed Komandosky, the club’s longest-serving president.

After the new board took over the golf course, it put in irrigation, added a pond and redesigned the greens and fairways. All the profits gained from memberships, green fees and rentals get invested into the course, Mikeska said. Since the improvements, the course has gained recognition as one of the nation’s hardest nine holes by Golf USA Tour magazine in the ’90s, Mikeska said. Mustang Creek Golf Course has seen a wide variety of clients. When the course was paired with the Taylor Country Club, now Taylor Mustang Creek Country Club, golfers ranged from residents to state senators, radio personalities and local politicians.

Today, the Mustang Creek Golf Course is still not affiliated with the country club and is open to the public. Not being associated with the country club helps the course maintain a leisurely atmosphere, Mikeska said. Low green fees and a relaxed dress code continue to draw a diverse clientele.

“We get a lot of seniors,” he said. “We get a lot of youth. We get a mixture of just about all kinds. We get a lot of families because we have such a great family membership deal. It’s so inexpensive. You can come out and play all the golf you want for between $60 and $90 a month.”

Golfers can register to golf and rent clubs and brand-new carts from the Pro Shop. The shop also sells beer, soft drinks and snacks. The course is available for golf tournaments, and on tournament days, there is catered food available at the shop.

In the future, Mikeska said he hopes to add more irrigation to make the course greener. Paul Pokorny, president of the board of the Taylor Mustang Creek Country Club and member of the golf course board, said that someday he would like to see the two enterprises work together again.

Golf tournaments

The Mustang Creek Golf Course has hosted tournaments in the spring and fall, including:

• 2009 Taylor City Golf Championship
• Weekly Wednesday Scramble
• Masonic Lodge Golf Tournament
• American Cancer Society Benefit Tournament
• High School and Junior High School district tournaments

Mustang Creek Golf Course, 1100 Beech St., 365-1332 • 844-4476, www.mustangcreektaylor.com