The Golf Club at Southwind

Overview: The Golf Club at Southwind is an 18-hole private course in Garden City, where rolling sand hills and the strong south Kansas wind define the round. The course has broad fairways, limited tree cover, water and sand hazards, and thick native rough known locally as “the gunge.” The verified back-tee reference is 6,935 yards and par 71. Its character is that of a wind-shaped southwest Kansas course: the open land can look inviting from a distance, but the combination of rough, wind and changing lies makes control and positioning essential.

History: Southwind Country Club opened in 1980 on the sand hills south of Garden City, with the layout deliberately positioned to use the region's prevailing southerly wind. Local Garden City and Kansas golf sources identify Donald Sechrest as the architect and describe the course as an 18-hole private facility. Southwind has developed into a regular Kansas Golf Association and Kansas Junior Golf Association venue, and it shares the Southwest Kansas Pro-Am tradition with nearby Buffalo Dunes. This profile corrects the earlier Memphis mix-up: the course is the Garden City, Kansas Southwind, not TPC Southwind in Tennessee.

Did You Know? The course's name refers to the south wind that often blows hard across southwest Kansas. Local course notes single out the 14th, 15th and 17th holes as especially demanding when the wind is active, while the thick rough is locally known as gunge.