Booker T Jones and Willie at Willie’s Golf Course and Recording Studio.
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Willie Nelson and Booker T. Jones
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Willie Nelson and Booker T. Jones
Monday, December 2nd, 2019Photo: Christina Fajardo
Booker T Jones and Willie at Willie’s Golf Course and Recording Studio.
Willie Nelson and Booker T. Jones
Friday, July 13th, 2018
Photo: Christina Fajardo
Booker T Jones and Willie at Willie’s Golf Course and Recording Studio.
Willie Nelson & Family, Celebrity Golf Tournament (June 30, 2012)
Saturday, June 30th, 2018
Thanks to George Fowler for sharing photos from Saturday’s celebrity golf tournament.
The event Willie is hosted the 1st Annual Celebrity Golf Tournament at the Pedernales Cut N Putt Golf Club, and raised funds to benefit four central Texas charities: Pedernales Fire Department, Helping Hands Ministries of Spicewood, The Children’s Music Foundation of Austin, and RunTex Carrozza Foundation.
Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Golf Course
Thursday, June 8th, 2017
Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin, Darrel Royal, Ray Benson
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by Turk Pipman
It’s been 30-something years since I teed my first ball at Pedernales Golf Club, Willie Nelson’s scrappy nine-hole course overlooking the Pedernales River. Willie and friends were watching as I choked down my nerves and managed to smack a drive down the fairway. That was the first of maybe a thousand rounds at Pedernales in which I’ve won and lost millions of pesos, lost and never found hundreds of golf balls, and heard and forgotten countless great jokes.
Though few seem to know it, Willie’s course is open to the public and one of the best deals in town. Where else can you bring your own cooler and also have a chance of seeing the red-headed stranger make a long one-handed putt?
Golf at Pedernales can be a wild ride. The fairways are rough and the greens are slow, but when I’m at Willie’s, I always feel like I’m playing the old-school game I learned as a kid, and I’m generally with my best and longest standing friends. Last year’s drought was hard on the course, but Willie called me up recently and said, “We’re working on the golf course to get it in the best shape we can, so spread the word and tell folks that Pedernales is open for business.”
I could tell you more, but thought Willie could do it better. So in Willie’s words, here are a few choice thoughts from the golf chapter in The Tao of Willie, a lovely little book Willie and I published awhile back. Take it away, Willie.
Pedernales Golf In Willie’s Words
Golf isn’t just a game—it’s an addiction. Think of it as the crack cocaine of sports. Like most addictions, doing it more doesn’t necessarily make you any better at it, it just makes you want more. My longest-running game has been at Pedernales Country Club, the nine-hole course I own in the hills outside of Austin. The course is a little rocky, but the greens roll true, and no one’s ever going to tell you to tuck in your shirttail at my course. I first saw Pedernales playing in a celebrity tournament in the mid-’70s, and a couple of years later, another guy and I bought it. For years, the standard game at Pedernales was somewhere between five and 15 of us in an equal number of carts, all of us racing from shot to shot claiming whatever ball we found as our own. The general philosophy was: May the man with the fastest cart win. Needless to say, I had a pretty fast cart.
If you never have a bad lie, you never have to tell a bad lie.
If you’re unhappy with your lie at Pedernales, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself. We have a local rule called the Pedernales Stroll, which lets you lift your ball from a rocky lie and stroll it someplace greener. Ireland would be a little far, but otherwise, I recommend that you drop the ball within one length of your arm.
People want to know everything about the golf swing, but my golf pro Larry Trader always told me to “just hit the ball.” Little kids usually hit it great the first swing. Lots of people do. But when they start getting instruction, it all goes to hell.
It’s always better if you get a pro to tell you everything you’re doing wrong. You can still keep doing it, but at least you’ll know it’s wrong.
Golf is the last thing you should get mad about. The way I see it, if I play well, I’ll have bested my opponent. If I want to play better, the way to do it is through positive thinking. Talk to yourself, be your own best friend, be the coach you always wanted in school. If I continue to play bad, then what the hell—maybe I’ll make my opponent feel better about his game. Either way, we’ll be out under a beautiful sky, and my enjoyment of the hole, the game and the day is not going to be dictated by something as haphazard as a golf swing.
With that in mind, I’ll offer the two essential secrets of golf:
Don’t lunge before you lurch.
The game of golf is not that different than the game of life.
Play to your strengths and try not to get too wrapped up in the outcome. Let things happen and someday you’ll make a hole in one. I’m the living proof of that. And like I always say, you can’t lose ’em all.
Texas NORML 4th Annual Puff N Putt Golf Tournament (March 25, 2017)
Sunday, January 15th, 2017
Texas NORML is holding their 4th Annual Puff N Putt Golf Tournament on March 25, 2017, at Willie Nelson’s Pedernalis Golf Course in Spicewood, Texas.
Get information about tickets, vendor and sponsorship information, and more, here.
Willie Nelson and Booker T. Jones
Saturday, December 3rd, 2016
Photo: Christina Fajardo
Booker T Jones and Willie at Willie’s Golf Course and Recording Studio.
Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Golf Club
Saturday, December 3rd, 2016
www.atxman.com
by Turk Pipman
It’s been 30-something years since I teed my first ball at Pedernales Golf Club, Willie Nelson’s scrappy nine-hole course overlooking the Pedernales River. Willie and friends were watching as I choked down my nerves and managed to smack a drive down the fairway. That was the first of maybe a thousand rounds at Pedernales in which I’ve won and lost millions of pesos, lost and never found hundreds of golf balls, and heard and forgotten countless great jokes.
Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin, Darrel Royal, Ray Benson
Though few seem to know it, Willie’s course is open to the public and one of the best deals in town. Where else can you bring your own cooler and also have a chance of seeing the red-headed stranger make a long one-handed putt?
Golf at Pedernales can be a wild ride. The fairways are rough and the greens are slow, but when I’m at Willie’s, I always feel like I’m playing the old-school game I learned as a kid, and I’m generally with my best and longest standing friends. Last year’s drought was hard on the course, but Willie called me up recently and said, “We’re working on the golf course to get it in the best shape we can, so spread the word and tell folks that Pedernales is open for business.”
I could tell you more, but thought Willie could do it better. So in Willie’s words, here are a few choice thoughts from the golf chapter in The Tao of Willie, a lovely little book Willie and I published awhile back. Take it away, Willie.
Pedernales Golf In Willie’s Words
Golf isn’t just a game—it’s an addiction. Think of it as the crack cocaine of sports. Like most addictions, doing it more doesn’t necessarily make you any better at it, it just makes you want more. My longest-running game has been at Pedernales Country Club, the nine-hole course I own in the hills outside of Austin. The course is a little rocky, but the greens roll true, and no one’s ever going to tell you to tuck in your shirttail at my course. I first saw Pedernales playing in a celebrity tournament in the mid-’70s, and a couple of years later, another guy and I bought it. For years, the standard game at Pedernales was somewhere between five and 15 of us in an equal number of carts, all of us racing from shot to shot claiming whatever ball we found as our own. The general philosophy was: May the man with the fastest cart win. Needless to say, I had a pretty fast cart.
If you never have a bad lie, you never have to tell a bad lie.
If you’re unhappy with your lie at Pedernales, you’ve got no one to blame but yourself. We have a local rule called the Pedernales Stroll, which lets you lift your ball from a rocky lie and stroll it someplace greener. Ireland would be a little far, but otherwise, I recommend that you drop the ball within one length of your arm.
People want to know everything about the golf swing, but my golf pro Larry Trader always told me to “just hit the ball.” Little kids usually hit it great the first swing. Lots of people do. But when they start getting instruction, it all goes to hell.
It’s always better if you get a pro to tell you everything you’re doing wrong. You can still keep doing it, but at least you’ll know it’s wrong.
Golf is the last thing you should get mad about. The way I see it, if I play well, I’ll have bested my opponent. If I want to play better, the way to do it is through positive thinking. Talk to yourself, be your own best friend, be the coach you always wanted in school. If I continue to play bad, then what the hell—maybe I’ll make my opponent feel better about his game. Either way, we’ll be out under a beautiful sky, and my enjoyment of the hole, the game and the day is not going to be dictated by something as haphazard as a golf swing.
With that in mind, I’ll offer the two essential secrets of golf:
Don’t lunge before you lurch.
The game of golf is not that different than the game of life.
Play to your strengths and try not to get too wrapped up in the outcome. Let things happen and someday you’ll make a hole in one. I’m the living proof of that. And like I always say, you can’t lose ’em all.
2nd Annual Poodies’ Party (Oct. 3, 2015)
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015
Thanks, Janis from Texas, for the photo. She is there today, volunteering and helping to make it happen.
Texas Norml’s Fundraiser @ Willie Nelson’s Cut and Putt (March 28, 2015)
Saturday, February 28th, 2015
Willie Nelson’s Cutt N Putt Golf Course
Monday, April 28th, 2014
Janis and I had to visit the golf course, just for fun.
If you like to golf, or want to visit the golf course, and support a good cause, here’s an upcoming chance:
Willie Nelson Crew Member shoots his Age
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
Henderson, NV.
While enjoying a day off Sunday before Willie Nelson’s upcoming performance in Henderson, Nevada, some of Willie’s Road Crew hit the links at the Westin Resort and Spa where Nelson was appearing. Windy conditions greeted the musical fivesome, but amazingly, just two days after his 64th birthday, crew member, Buddy “Budrock” Prewitt had the best round of his life. Despite the 30 to 40 mph winds that blew the crew all day, it helped Mr. Prewitt card not only his personal best, but miraculously one shot off the course record (63) held by Jesper Parnevick.
His amazing 8 under par (64) matches his age. Round highlights include only 3 missed fairways, 1 shot played from the sand, he required 21 putts for the round including 14 one putt holes. He even had two bogeys, but offset them nicely with eight birdies and an amazing eagle on the signature 547 yard, 13th hole, where his second shot ricocheted off the Drink cart, rolling to within 8 inches of the hole.
It was his first ever sub par round. He has been playing golf 52 years. The 15 handicapper had a previous low round of 79 in 1986.
Prewitt, dressed in a red Callaway hat, a blue and white Callaway Shirt, credited Callaway Golf for the clubs, hats, shirts, and balls, thanked his playing partners, and said that during the round that he had the Beatles song “When I’m Sixty Four” playing over and over in his head. He also said he felt like he was in heaven all day and then added he dreamed something similar not too long ago.
Nelson played to a sold out audience Monday Night at the Westin Resort and Spa kicking off their 2014 Spring Music Series.
AKA in Willie’s words, “The Illuminator”
It was a whole lot easier to get older than it was to get wise
Willie Nelson’s Pedernales Golf Course for Sale
Sunday, December 15th, 2013
If you or anyone you know are interested, you can get information from listing agent: Laura Gottesman
Oh, we have had a lot of fun at that golf course. Even for us non-golfers like Janis and me, we’d hike all over, drive golf cart all over, get lost (one minute we’re on the golf course, the next we’re in somebody’s driveway). Good times.
Jeremy Tepper and Dallas Wayne hijacked our golf cart one day and took it for a spin. (No charges were filed, we settled out of court.)
Lisa from Houston met Cherie and I met up one day, we chased around and played with her kids all afternoon.
