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Austin - Overview of petanque in Austin

There are three big clubs in Austin.

• Heart of Texas is the oldest club in Texas and a very strong club.
• Legation Boules — They play on the grounds of the French Legation, and at the Browning Hangar.
• Nelson Ranch Petanque in Cedar Park is now the largest club in Austin.

Austin - Heart of Texas Petanque Club

• https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100027199522954
• http://heartoftexas.wordpress.com/
• Founded in 2008.
• We are an FPUSA member club. See FPUSA for email and contact information.
• One of the club's most spectacular venues is the renovated Browning Hangar at Mueller.

Petanque at Browning Hangar in Austin

Austin - Legation Boules Club

• http://legationboules.com
• Founded in 2014
• We are a socially geared pétanque club. We welcome new players!
• Our web page has up-to-date information on when and where people are playing.
  • There is a calendar for Regular Weekly Events and Special Events.
  • Read about recent events on the LBC Blog.
  • Get real-time text messages from players with the Austin Pétanque Group on Signal.

Pétanque Players of the Legation Boules Club playing in the Terry Plemons Memorial Tournament at the Browning Hangar in Austin, Texas on Halloween Day 2021.

Austin - Nelson Ranch Petanque Club

• https://www.usapetanque.org/nelson-ranch-peacutetanque-club.html
• https://nelsonranchpetanque.weebly.com/locations.html
• Founded in 2015.
• NRPC is one of the largest and most active pétanque clubs in the Austin metro area.
• We are an FPUSA member club. See FPUSA for email and contact information.

Cedar Park terrain

Austin - Paggi Square (public park/terrain)

• In 2013 the mayor of Austin opened a dedicated petanque court in the Mueller Community of Austin.
• It is located in a "pocket park"— Paggi Square, 2101 Robert Browing Street, Austin, TX (map)
• The park was designed with input from the Heart of Texas Pétanque Club.
• Read about the park, and see some pix, in this blog post.

Austin/McDade - The Sahnoans at Star Ranch nudist park

• http://www.starranch.net/amenities-services/petanque-courts.html
• Star Ranch is located near McDade, Texas which is about 30 miles east of Austin (IH 35 & Highway 290) on Highway 290.
• The Sahnoans at Star Ranch is a family-oriented nudist park that has been in operation since 1957.
• Star Ranch boasts some of the finest Petanque courts this side of France. Two crushed limestone courts have been carefully framed, rolled and tended to assure you a true experience. Boules are available in the office, or bring your own. Tournaments are held every holiday weekend.

Dallas - Dallas Petanque Club

• http://dallaspetanqueclub.wordpress.com
• We play weekly on Sunday at 2 pm in Gussie Field Park, 2600 Valley View Ln, Farmers Branch, TX 75234. It is located at the Rawhide Parkway next to the Rose Garden. (map)
• The terrain was built in 2011 by the City of Farmers Branch and the Boy Scouts, in a beautiful location with shade trees, benches, and lights. The terrain surface was doubled in October 2012 with the help of the Boy Scouts.
• Read more about the LaFont Memorial tournament and the history of the club and see pictures of the event and the Gussie Field terrain.
• We are an FPUSA member club. See FPUSA for email and contact information.

In May 2012 the first LaFont Memorial Petanque Tournament was held at Gussie Field Park in Farmers Branch.

Dallas - Klyde Warren Park (terrain)

• In November 2012, Dallas built a new park in the heart of the city.
• Klyde Warren Park, 2012 Woodall Rodgers Fwy, Dallas, TX 75201 (map) ‎is a 5.2-acre deck park.
• Petanque can be played on "The Commons", a lighted 25-foot wide path.
• At one time, the Dallas Petanque Club provided free petanque lessons at 2 pm on the first Saturday of every month. But check with Dallas Petanque... I don't know if they still do it.

Click on map to view larger image.

El Paso - El Paso Petanque Club

• Telephone 915-532-3496 or 915-491-6226
• We play most Saturdays and Sundays between 9 a.m. and noon on Rim Road near upper Tom Lea Park.
• Petanque court, 800 Rim Road, El Paso, Tx (map)
• All necessary equipment and rules to be provided.
• John Kemp Jr. (who passed away in 2022) and his wife, Linda, fell in love with petanque while visiting Peregueux, France. They brought the game back with them, recruited neighbors to play at a spot near Upper Tom Lea Park on Rim Road, and formed the El Paso Petanque Club.

Playing on the Rim Road terrain, with the city of El Paso in the background.

San Antonio - San Antonio Pétanque Club

• http://www.usapetanque.org/san-antonio-peacutetanque.html
• We are an FPUSA member club. See FPUSA for email and contact information.
• The San Antonio Petanque Club was founded in 2002 by Dr. Fernando Triana, a cardiologist. He first learned the game traveling through Europe in his teens. Once settled in San Antonio, he built petanque courts in his backyard, and played with family, friends, and neighbors. Later Michel Costa and others joined the club. The Club now meets on most Sundays in Fernando’s back yard.
• For background information on the club, see THIS and THIS.

The petanque court at Fernando's house.

San Antonio - Drew Cauthorn

• As of May 2013, Drew Cauthorn installed a petanque court on a lot near the San Antonio River on the Mission Reach.
• Now he needs partners. Call him at 210-508-5555.

Overview of petanque in Houston

• Houston Petanque Club is dead. It used to play in Bear Creek Park.
• Zimm's Little Deck, a restaurant with a petanque area, closed in 2012.
• The Brooklyn Athletic Club, a restaurant with bocce and petanque courts, closed in 2018.
• Discovery Green, the big park in downtown Houston, has public bocce courts... but don't play petanque on them: that would tear up the super-smooth surface that is so important for bocce. More information is HERE.

Bocce courts in Discovery Green, Houston, TX

McAllen - Pleasant Valley Resort RV Park

• http://pleasantvalleyresort.com/petanque/
• This is an RV parking facility in the Rio Grande Valley near the south tip of Texas, near McAllen. "Whether you're RVing in Mission, Texas for a night, a week, a month, the winter season, or all year long, you'll love the great facilities at Pleasant Valley Resort."
• Most popular among French Canadians, petanque is quickly gaining dedicated followers here in the Rio Grande Valley. Hermel Pelletier and his wife, Reinalde, coordinate the game for the Golden Age Olympics, sponsored by the city of McAllen, which takes place every spring right here at Pleasant Valley Resort. “It is a great game for all Canadians, and more and more Americans are playing” Pelletier said.