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La Cantera Golf Club

golf club in San Antonio, Texas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ6461520 ↗
Source-derived summary

La Cantera Golf Club is a golf club located in the La Cantera district of San Antonio, Texas, USA. The club played host to the Valero Texas Open, an annual tournament on the PGA Tour, from 1995 to 2009. It is owned by USAA Real Estate.

The championship golf course is 6,896 yards long, and plays to a par of 70. The course was the setting for Tommy Armour III's PGA Tour 72-hole record aggregate score of 254, set in 2003.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “La Cantera Golf Club” is golf club in San Antonio, Texas. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cantera, Golf and Club, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2009, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cantera, Golf and Club is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “golf club in San Antonio, Texas” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6461520. Authority coordinates are 29.606, -98.623. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2009 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “La Cantera Golf Club” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.