South Green Miniature Golf Course

South Green Miniature Golf Course 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.

Tournament winners… and pictures of the old course. Par 56.Opened March 1946 and closed partially around 1999. We stil...
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.

1969….
11/16/2025

1969….

02/17/2024

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……

Just a couple of cousins working that office; read a lot of books waiting on golfers; my mom and me circa 1963!
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
Found a treasure going through old boxes of my mom’s ! Tournament winners of long ago!
06/03/2019

Found a treasure going through old boxes of my mom’s ! Tournament winners of long ago!

11/12/2018
Even better article by Van Craddock.http://www.sfasu.edu/heritagecenter/7006.asp
07/29/2015

Even better article by Van Craddock.
http://www.sfasu.edu/heritagecenter/7006.asp

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.

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South Green Street
Longview, TX
75601

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