The Rockport, Texas property, which took its name from the huge trees that lined its golf course, was forced to close after storm surge from the Category 4 hurricane took out most of its buildings and trees. “The course looks very different, but it’s still the same course,” said member Johnny Hill. A membership drive is planned to try to refill member rolls that were also affected by the storm.
Live Oak Country Club in Rockport, Texas will celebrate its reopening on August 25th, a year to the day from when Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm, made landfall and forced the club and its golf course to shut down, the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller Times reported.
The club will open at 7 a.m. for the whole day on the 25th and will be fully operational for guests to see the golf course, the Caller Times reported.
Johnny Hill, a member of Live Oak, told the Caller Times that the semi-private club’s nine-hole golf course was devastated by a storm surge that took out most of the buildings and trees, but that everything has since been fixed.
“Before the storm, we had these huge oak trees that were on the entire course [and from which the club took its name],” Hill said. “Harvey took most of them out, so the course looks very different, but it’s still the same golf course.”
The next goal for the club, Hill told the Caller Times, will be a membership drive, because most of Live Oak’s members left after the course shut down.
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