Imagine Muny concert raises money to save historic Austin golf course
AUSTIN (KXAN) — It was a packed house at ACL Live for the annual Imagine Muny gala on Friday.
The event, which has been going on for the past four years, helps raise money to save the historic golf course.
This year the headliner was Wynonna Judd with Chaparelle opening up for her.
Opened in 1924 by the Lions Club of Austin, Muny has been a public golf course for100 years and it was the first golf course in the South to desegregate.
The course is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its role as a civil rights landmark.
The course is located at 2901 Enfield Road in west Austin, nestled between Tarrytown, Lady Bird Lake and the Tom Miller Dam. It rests on the Brackenridge Tract — a piece of land owned by the University of Texas. The City of Austin currently leases the land from the university to maintain the course.
The University of Texas at Austin leases the greenspace to the city of Austin on a 5-month rolling lease and the fight to save the 141 acres has been going on for decades.
Talks of developing the land have been going on for years, but the Muny Conservancy is working to make sure that does not happen.
