This $50 million private course with no members welcomes college event

Key Points:

• The inaugural Abilene Christian Intercollegiate golf tournament will take place at Halbert National, a $50 million Tom Fazio-designed course in Granbury, Texas, owned and funded solely by billionaire David D. Halbert.
• Halbert National is a private, memberless course with no tee times, originally built as a personal retreat for Halbert's wife, Kathy, but expanded into a premier 7,777-yard, par-72 layout aiming to be the most beautiful golf course in Texas.
• The course features extensive facilities including a lodge, cabins, and a party barn, with annual maintenance costs around $3 million, reflecting Halbert’s ambition for it to surpass Augusta National in quality.
• The tournament field includes top collegiate teams such as Texas A&M, Arizona, SMU, Houston, Oregon, Arizona State, Tennessee, and Baylor, along with several PGA Tour professionals, including Jordan Spieth.
• Spieth recently appeared in a Caris Life Sciences commercial filmed at Halbert National, promoting the company's multi-cancer early detection test, Caris Detect, which analyzes the genome and transcriptome from a single blood draw.