River Oaks Country Club

River Oaks Country Club is a country club in the southern United States, located in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas. The club has hosted the River Oaks International Tennis Tournament since 1931.

River Oaks' golf course was the venue for the PGA Tour's Western Open in 1940, and the Houston Open in 1937, 1938, and 1946.

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

On May 8, 2007, the United States Tennis Association awarded River Oaks the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships starting in 2008, taking over the event from Westside Tennis Club. Other cities that competed for the event were Atlanta, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. The tournament purse is $415,000 with a winner's share of $65,850.

The new venue was to feature American red clay courts that were installed in 2005, with a stadium capacity of 3,000. Temporary seating for 500 was to be installed for the second court.

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