This is a fun page where memories of the old South Green Golf Course can be shared. Opened March 1946 closed partially closed around 1999.
Opened weekends / parties until around 2002. Property sold to LeTourneau University on 1/31/2018. Opened March 1946 and closed partially around 1999. We still opened weekends and for parties until around 2002. The golf course property was sold to LeTourneau University on 1/31/2018.
11/16/2025
Tournament winners… and pictures of the old course. Par 56.
Opened March 1946 and closed partially around 1999. We still opened weekends and for parties until around 2002. The golf course property was sold to LeTourneau University on 1/31/2018.
11/16/2025
1969….
Lots of people on other sites wonder why the golf course is abandoned…. My grandfather, James Mauldin, had a dream of building a miniature golf course like the ones he’d seen in California. After the war and his service in the Navy he decided to follow R.G. Letourneau who he greatly admired for his Christian ideals and forward thinking. In around 1943, he bought property close to LeTourneau, which was then a hospital, but rumors were it would become a university, and built his golf course!
When James retired my dad, Bill Mauldin, took over the courses and kept them going for as long as he could.
Though he was not really a sentimental man, my dad had a really hard time listing the property and held on to the land until the city fines for overgrowth and my nagging convinced him he was just too old to keep it (80).
LeTourneau bought the property for future projects, so my dad and I feel like we came full circle and my grandparents would have approved.
My dad passed away in 2023, but each time I see a post about South Green Minuature Golf Courses, its like a little God Wink! Thanks for remembering!
Maybe one day it will be a golf course again……
06/23/2023
Bill Mauldin - View Obituary & Service Information Share Memories and Support the Family.
05/26/2020
Just a couple of cousins working that office; read a lot of books waiting on golfers; my mom and me circa 1963!
09/26/2019
06/03/2019
Found a treasure going through old boxes of my mom’s ! Tournament winners of long ago!
11/12/2018
07/29/2015
Even better article by Van Craddock.
http://www.sfasu.edu/heritagecenter/7006.asp
It was a great place to putter away the summer (February 2013) | Archive - 2013 | Local Writers'... The other day I passed by a familiar piece of Longview real estate that still brings a smile and great memories. The four-acre tract once housed the South Green Street Miniature Golf Course.
01/04/2016