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Texaco Golf Club | 12800 Texaco Road | Houston, Texas 77013
Texaco Golf Club is a par 72 course between 6,200 and 6,300 yards in length. It has many interesting holes which offer a stiff challenge to the ability of its golfers.The Texaco Country Club was founded August 30th, 1924
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Alvin Golf & Country Club History
Alvin Golf & Country Club (AGCC) is a family-owned public golf course and country club that is owned and operated by Karen and Patrick Farrell. Karen and Pat purchased the golf course from its stock members on February 12, 2004, but this great lady has a long and storied history that began before either of them were born.
The Ghosts of the Past
In 1945, Karen's grandparents, Arthur (Art) Philip and Ethelind Joy Uzzell Schacht, along with two other buyers, purchased the land. It sits atop an old plantation. The present #1 and #2 holes are separated by the old road that is lined with 100-foot tall, 100-year-old pecan trees that led to the plantation manor house. The foundation of the manor house is only a couple of feet under the rough.Some say that the residents of the manor home and those whose worked the plantation still walk the course. Young and old, impressionable and cynical, report seeing, hearing, and feeling “presences” on the course, in the clubhouse, and in the three surrounding homes. Many golfers consider the ghosts part of the charm of the course and take the seemingly harmless spirits in stride. But other people who encounter the otherworldly presences for the first time have a less positive reaction. It has been a while since the lost spirits have been encountered. Maybe they found their way to their plantation in the other world.
Founding Members
Art was a minor league and company baseball player from St. Louis who made his way to the Alvin area. At one point, he played for the Texaco team, who required their players to work for the company between games. Texaco taught him to weld, and he learned his job well. Some time after his
10-year minor league career, he married Ethelind and opened the highly successful Schacht's Welding in Alvin. While the others in the shop did the simple welding jobs, he spent a lot of his time out on the oil rigs, often in the middle of the night in raging storms that had damaged the rigs. He also performed a lot of work for future members of AGCC who owned oil-service businesses. They were all one tight-knit group.
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When Art and Ethelind bought the property, it had most recently housed WW II soldiers, and their former barracks were the first clubhouse, complete with showers. All activities originated from the clubhouse, and they sold green fees and snacks from the split front door.The members eventually built a new clubhouse several yards away, and used the first building for storage. The faithful, cinder block structure stood until crumbling at last with the winds of Hurricane Ike. C.L. Spence designed the golf course, and in 1946, it became Alvin Golf & Country Club. From then until it was purchased by Karen and Pat in 2004, the country club was owned equally by 50 stock members, including a share owned by Karen's grandparents. Alvin Golf & Country Club was the only game in town throughout the forties, and not just for golf. The clubhouse
SPORTED
a piano, and if you catch the wind just right, you can hear the echoes of the music and laughter from the dances of that decade.
The High School
In 1958 Alvin Golf & Country Club began another tradition that stands today: the club became the home course of the Alvin High School Golf team. The Schacht's son, Robert, whom everyone knows as Bob, was in his junior year at Alvin High School. He and Pat Morgan formed the first golf team at Alvin High School in 1958, and they practiced at Alvin Golf & Country Club. Since the team consisted of only two golfers, the boys could only compete in individual events in their tournaments. But the program grew.Now the Alvin High School Golf team has girls and boys teams: Varsity, Junior Varsity, Sophomore, and Freshman. They practice and hold their home golf tournaments at Alvin Golf & Country Club, and golfers on the team are welcome to play at no charge on weekdays. Alvin Golf & Country Club is proud to be the home course of the Alvin High School Golf team.