Riverside Golf Course

Clinton sits at the crossroads of old Route 66 and the Southern Plains, where the Washita River cuts through red-dirt country in western Oklahoma. The landscape here is open and unforgiving in the way that defines this part of the Great Plains — wide skies, persistent wind, and terrain shaped more by water and geology than by a designer's hand. Golf in this corner of the state is as much about contending with the elements as reading greens.

Riverside Golf Course, as the name suggests, plays along or near the Washita, which gives the layout a natural character that distinguishes it from the surrounding flatlands. River-corridor courses in this region tend to offer mature tree cover, natural topography, and the occasional water hazard that the open prairie can't provide — qualities that make them the most interesting public options in their communities.

At par 70, the course plays shorter than a full championship layout, rewarding shot-making and course management over raw distance. For locals and Route 66 travelers alike, it represents an honest, unpretentious round on the Southern Plains.