About
Jimmy Clay Golf Course opened in 1974 with a 6,931 yard Joe Finger design that incorporates Williamson Creek. This track is flat as well, and is noted for its generous fairways and large, elevated greens. The first and last holes are perhaps the most memorable. No. 1 serves up a blind approach shot over a hill into a skinny green, and the 400-yard doglegged 18th plays into the wind with water on the left side.
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Awards & Recognition
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Top 25 Most Improved U.S. Golf Courses(2025 #1)
Golfer Photos
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Dirt greens at Jimmy Clay in Austin Photo submitted by JohnEverettJr on 05/07/2024
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Photo submitted by GordonATX on 02/23/2023
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#18 tree needs to be removed IMO Photo submitted by GordonATX on 10/07/2021
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Photo submitted by GordonATX on 10/07/2021
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Photo submitted by BrandonTuckerGA on 06/05/2019
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Photo submitted by BrandonTuckerGA on 06/05/2019
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Photo submitted by BrandonTuckerGA on 06/05/2019
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Jimmy Clay Photo submitted by crawfordj75 on 07/13/2013
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A beautiful design. Photo submitted by idream0fg0lf on 11/26/2012
Golfer Reviews
The course should be worth $20-$30 7 days a week.
I have played Jimmy Clay a decent amount and the twilight rates during the week are definitely worth it. The greens are horrible though. You should add 10-12 strokes to your score because of how bad the ball rolls. I understand it is a municipal course.
Due to the quality of the greens, this course shouldn't be more than $30 on the weekends. This course is good for a novice player.
Under repair
All greens were not more and rolled like shaggy carpet. They were under repair and should of informed golf now users through the site. Fairways were not bad as we have had a lot of recent rain. Play was slow and the group in front of us hit multiple balls a piece. This needs to be regulated as it was wide open in front of them the majority of the times. Please have the course Marshalls do their job.
Please fix the greens
Challenging course due to some narrow fairways / tee shots. Great price and good facilities to practice. The only issue I have are the greens. They are in horrible shape. Weird because Roy Kizer greens are, for the most part, in way better shape. I really like this course but I will choose not to play here again until they either can solve the bad green issue or gut it and do them all over again.
Good muni course, but greens need work.
This course is a nice muni course presenting my game (18 hdcp.) enough challenge. However, the greens are in really bad shape. Every one has at least some brown, dead areas, and many are largely covered in dead areas. The ball jumps and changes course on putts so don't give yourself too much grief for a poor putting day.
Very nice but poor greens
Love the layout for a daily fee but the greens are poor. It has been this way for some time and I believe they will have to been totally redone.
Challenging and great value.
Fairways in great shape, the greens had just been sanded and seeded so in a couple of weeks these should also be great. Excellent value, the course is long and has several challenging holes.
They need to space foursomes out more....quit getting greedy and let folks enjoy the game
The proshop had foursomes going off 2 - 4 minutes after one another, they seemingly could care less as to your golfing experience being enjoyable but were trying to cram as many people onto a course at one time. This was frustrating the two to three foursomes in front of us as well as the two to three behind us. EVERY single person I encountered made a comment about how they were just getting greedy and did not care about quality..
Greens in bad shape!
I really like playing Jimmy Clay and enjoyed our round. However, the greens were in awful shape, I felt like we were putting on dirt half the time.
Greens are shot
This is an interesting layout but conditions, even for a muni, are poor.
Good condition
Course in good condition except for the greens.
There are some people that go on the course to "learn and teach", and realy gold people back. Took my 4some 3-1/2 hours to do the front nine, so instead of going to the back 9 we did the front nine again
It seems the Marshell needs to come out more and greens were terrible
I've played at Jimmy Clay before and the greens were much better than they are now. It needs a lot of attention.
tried and true Austin golf course
Jimmy Clay is easy to get on to play, inexpensive, it's a fun course for all skill levels (I'm a high handicapper and I always enjoy the round here), it's always a good pace of play, the course has interesting holes, there are no houses on the course, all in all it's a great course.
Another muny to play every now and then
I like to get back to JC every now and then. It has a few holes that are fun to try and work the ball on here and there. But if it's a 'dry' time, then the fairways can get a bit harder than average. Except for an exception or two, I've found that they do okay in keeping the fairways and greens in shape. Either way, there's a good amount of #wide# open fairways to help you scramble as needed.
Worst greens I have ever seen!
They have had a terrible time with the JC greens. I hadnt played out there in over a year and thought they might have fixed it. The adjacent 9 hole course and Kizer have nice greens. Only thing I could think is maybe they are watering the greens with gasoline? maybe they should pave them??????
Like the new layout
I have not played this course in awhile. I definitely like the changes they made to the original course layout. The island green is a great feature. The one negative is the greens are currently in poor shape. Hopefully, they will improve with the coming spring.
Great Value for the Money.
I've played Jimmy Clay several times this past year and have always enjoyed the course. The pace of play has ranged from 3 3/4 to 4 1/2 hours. The greens are now in better shape than they were earlier in the year. I would rate this course an average value for the money if paying full price. I have played for $14 to 22.50 through Golfnow.
The course is nice with challenging holes, but the greens were not in good shape.
Unfortunately, golfnow provides the course conditions after you pay the fee. Also, the 4-some behind my 3-some decided to hit into us on 3 holes. The course management allowed a 6-some in front of us and we were being held up, thus the 4-some may have gotten inpatient, but it was not our fault. Poor course "mgmt".
Great deal at Jimmy Clay!
Beautiful day on Jimmy Clay in SE Austin yesterday. There are a few greens they have lost but the fairways are in great condition for the winter. Great value w/ cart and good pace of play, overall an enjoyable round!