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My earliest memory of Butler Pitch & Putt is of mosquitoes and shame. Mosquitoes because the course ran parallel to West Bouldin Creek, where heat and insects rose from the water. Shame because I was a terrible player. My 11-year-old arms hacked much more grass than golf balls.
The swings of my dad and older brother were athletic, leisurely. It was a simple course, they said. Just a par 3. Hole after hole their balls sank into the white cups. Mine flew into brambles of trees, rolled into other golfers fareways, or did not move at all. By the ninth hole, the excuses – I had dirt in my eye! It s too hot! I can t do it when you re watching me! – ran dry. There was nothing left but the quiet indignity of climbing back into the car, covered in dirt.
The renovated clubhouse offers a new menu from Austin s Olamaie, including biscuit sandwiches. Author: Jeff Bell Updated: 3:57 PM CDT April 9, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas Just in time for Masters weekend, a beloved and historic golf course in Downtown Austin has reopened to players.
Crews this week put the final touches on renovations at Butler Pitch and Putt before its reopening on Friday under new management. The course got new owners in the summer of 2019.
In January, the golf course teased its renovations in a post on social media.
It said it was expanding food offerings beyond just snacks, with a new menu from Olamaie chef Michael Fojtasek. The menu includes many sandwiches from Olamaie’s casual biscuit shop, Little Ola’s. The park will no longer be BYOB but it will offer beer, hard seltzer and wine.
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The menu offerings include the following:
Biscuit sandwiches: ham and cheese ($8); sausage, egg and cheese ($9); tomato, egg and cheese ($7); fried chicken ($10); and seasonal jam and butter ($5).
Masters-inspired sandwiches: pimento cheese ($5), Palm Beach ($5), smoked chicken salad ($5) and egg salad ($5).
All beef hot dog ($5), a plant-based dog ($6) and assorted snacks and sweets.
Butler Pitch & Putt partner Yeti will be responsible for keeping the beer frigid. The City of Austin no longer allows BYOB at Butler, so the following beers will be for sale for $3 and $5: Coors Light, Coor Banquet, Miller Lite, Lone Star, Bud Light, Landshark, Michelob Ultra, Independence Native Texan, Karbach Hopadillo, Hi-Sign El Berto, Austin Eastciders Dry, and Carl Kolsch, along with Mighty Swell spritzer.