River Oaks Country Club

Architect John F. Staub was hired to design the original two-story Spanish revival clubhouse.

River Oaks has been home to the River Oaks International Tennis Tournament from 1931 until it was merged with the oldest clay court tournaments in the United States, the U.S Men's Clay Court Championships.

Other cities that competed for the event were Atlanta, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.

[2] Around 1993, River Oaks and some other area country clubs began claiming a new tax break.

[3] That same year, an article in the Houston Post alleged that even though River Oaks and two other area country clubs had bylaws stating that membership was open to people of all races, they covertly discriminated against black people.