Hollow Creek Club · Wimberley, Texas · Est. MCMLVIII
Annual Report · MMXXV
Vol. LXVII of the club’s records
Being a true account of the club year — its rounds, its revenues, its ground and its people — rendered for the six hundred two member families of Hollow Creek.
From the General Manager’s Desk
Dear Members,
Every caddie at Hollow Creek learns the same arithmetic: the course tells you where you stand at the ninth. You count what is on the card, you consider what is left, and you make your turn for home.
This report is our ninth green. In 2025 the club recorded 41,212 rounds — the most in our sixty-seven years — while the course drew less water than in any season on record. We welcomed forty-seven new member families and said goodbye, warmly, to twenty-four. We completed four capital projects within a whisker of their budgets, and we reopened the halfway house your grandparents knew — same limestone, same shade, same bend in the cart path.
The numbers that follow are real ones: audited, reconciled, and occasionally humbling. We publish them in full because a club that counts honestly plays honestly.
The back nine looks good from here.
R. Walker Hutto
General Manager & COO
Eleanor “Bit” Chastain
President, Board of Governors
P.S. — The bench at the halfway house kept its view. You will find it where it has always been, facing the tenth tee.
No. 01 — Membership
Six hundred two families hold the club this year — twenty-three more than last. The waiting list now runs to ninety-six names and roughly fourteen months of patience, and the average age of a new member fell to forty-six. The roll is not merely full; it is getting younger.
Fig. 1 — The roll, by category as of December 31, 2025
Junior Executive (under 40) opened in 2023 with twelve families; it has tripled. Full Golf initiation stands at $85,000, unchanged since April 2024.
No. 02 — Golf Operations
41,212 rounds — a club record, and a 3.3 percent rise on 2024. June was our fullest month; July, as ever in the Hill Country, belonged to the heat and the early risers. Pace of play held at 4:08 for the season, which the golf committee would like framed.
Fig. 2 — Rounds by month, 2025 tee-sheet ledger, reconciled monthly
The July dip is the Texas furnace at work: play compresses into dawn tee times, and the course rests through the afternoons.
Fig. 3 — Five years of rounds 2021–2025
No. 03 — Finance
Total revenue reached $14.2 million, up 5.9 percent. Dues remain the club’s keel at just under half the mix — exactly where a healthy private club wants them — while food & beverage grew 9 percent on the strength of the reopened halfway house and 61,480 dining covers.
Fig. 4 — Where the $14.2M came from audited, FY ending December 31, 2025
Figures rounded to the nearest hundred thousand; percentages may not total one hundred, owing to rounding. “Other” gathers initiation amortization, interest, and the pro shop’s stubborn refusal to stop selling hats.
No. 04 — The Course
Harmon Coble laid these eighteen holes across 148 acres of caliche and live oak in 1958, and the routing has not moved an inch since. 7,016 yards from the Quarry tees, par 72, one creek with two opinions. Rest a moment on any marker below; each hole will introduce itself.
Plate I — Survey of the course contour interval 20 ft · drawn from the 2025 aerial
Scoring averages are drawn from 28,411 posted member rounds. No. 11 remains the kindest card on the property; No. 18 remains unmoved by flattery.
No. 05 — The Member Survey
Four hundred twenty-seven of six hundred two families answered the October survey — a 71 percent response, which is itself a datum. Ninety-four percent call themselves satisfied or delighted. The dining rooms drew our sternest marks, and the board has read every word of the 312 written comments.
Fig. 5 — Satisfaction by department mean score of five
Dining’s 4.18 is honest work, not a crisis — but it is the number the house committee has circled in red for 2026.
The halfway house is back, and so is my father’s favorite bench. Whoever thought to keep it — thank you.Survey comment No. 118, anonymous, Full Golf member since 1989
No. 06 — Capital Projects
Four projects finished in 2025 — $4.66 million deployed against $4.72 million budgeted — 1.2 percent under in aggregate. Two more carry board approval into 2026. Every figure below is final, not projected.
March 2025 · Completed
The 1961 limestone shelter between nine and ten, rebuilt stone by numbered stone, with a proper grill where the coffee urn used to struggle. It gave this report its name and the club back its heart.
May 2025 · Completed
Two acres of practice ground south of the range: a 9,000-square-foot putting green, three bunker styles, and turf targets to 85 yards. Ran modestly over on rock excavation — this is the Hill Country — and we report it plainly.
August 2025 · Completed
Eighty carts, lithium throughout, charging overnight on off-peak rates. The barn’s energy draw fell 31 percent, and the marshals report the new fleet is unnervingly quiet.
October 2025 · Completed
1,911 heads replaced with individually addressable, weather-metered units across the back nine and range. The water it saves is counted, gallon by gallon, in Chapter Seven.
2026 · Board-approved
Ninety additional outdoor seats along the eighteenth, under the existing oaks — no tree is touched. Bidding closes in February; ground breaks after the Member-Guest.
2026 · In design
1.2 miles of Hollow Creek re-armored with native stone and switchgrass, in partnership with the Hays County watershed authority. The creek has carried us since 1958; it is our turn.
No. 07 — Stewardship
We hold this land on what amounts to a long lease from the people who come after us. In 2025 the course drew 418 acre-feet of water — 18.4 percent less than in 2021 — while playing firmer and faster than at any time in memory. Less water, better golf: the two turn out to be the same project.
Fig. 6 — Water drawn, acre-feet by year metered at the well head, Trinity Aquifer
Phase II irrigation went live in October; superintendents project a further 6–8% saving across a full 2026 season. We will print the actual number here next year, whatever it is.