Dallas Golf Courses
Located next to Dallas’ exclusive Preston Trail Golf Club, Bent Tree opened in 1974 as the centerpiece for a 700-acre development headed by Dallas real estate investors Robert Folsom and John Murchison. The two hired the eclectic Scotsman Desmond Muirhead to design the course on 190 acres of former cotton fields.
5201 Westgrove Dr
Dallas, Texas 75248
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 71 | 7113 yards
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One of only a handful of A.W. Tillinghast-designed Texas courses, super-exclusive Brook Hollow Golf Club still has the charm of its original 1919 design, despite subtle revisions by Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore in the early 1990s.
8301 Harry Hines Blvd
Dallas, Texas 75235
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 71 | 6743 yards
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The revered A. W. Tillinghast didn’t do many Texas courses, but old 1919 Cedar Crest was one of them, a course that hosted the 1927 PGA Championship won by Walter Hagen.
1800 Southerland Ave
Dallas, Texas 75203
Dallas County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 71 | 6532 yards
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The Presidents Course was built to accommodate beginners, seniors, and women, but is a great way for better golfers to work on their iron play. The par 4s are around 300 yards or less, and the par 5s are reachable in two.
3333 Golfing Green Dr
Dallas, Texas 75234
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 72 | 6535 yards
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When Dallas began to sprawl to the north in the 1960s, Prestonwood Country Club opened to serve the families that would inevitably follow the migration. The Creek Course was the original track, carved out of the live oaks and pecans.
15909 Preston Rd
Dallas, Texas 75248
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 71 | 6516 yards
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The 18-hole Dallas Country Club in Dallas, TX is a private golf course that opened in 1896. Designed by Jay Morrish and Tom Bendelow, Dallas Country Club measures 6266 yards from the longest tees and has a slope rating of 126 and a 70.
4100 Beverly Drive
Dallas, Texas 75205
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 70 | 6266 yards
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Referred to as “the best piece of land left in America close to a downtown” by architect Tom Fazio, ultra-exclusive Dallas National sets a new standard for golf in Dallas.
1515 Knoxville Rd
Dallas, TX 75211-1328
United States
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 72 | 7372 yards
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The East Course is considered a tad more difficult, with tighter fairways and smaller greens. 14 of 18 holes dogleg, so its label as a target course is accurate. Elevation changes make club selection a challenge, and the par 5s are tough to reach in two.
3500 W Airfield Dr
Dallas, Texas 75261
Dallas County
White Rock Creek is the predominant feature of the Glens Course, snaking across the route and a providing a haven for stragglers looking to cool off with a dip, bag a few spare balls to sell, or even catch a catfish or two for supper.
3501 Samuel Blvd
Dallas, Texas 75223
Dallas County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 72 | 6638 yards
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Press Maxwell came along in 1952 to mold this 171-acre tract highlighted by ancient oaks and Five Mile Creek into the course that eventually became home to the PGA Tour’s Dallas Open. The tourney was held here from 1958-1962, then again from 1964-1967.
2200 W Red Bird Ln
Dallas, Texas 75232
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 70 | 6630 yards
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Built by Dallas banker E. O. Tenison after World War I as a memorial to his son who died in the war, Tenison Park has a storied history as Texas; most infamous hustlers course--the place where guys like Titanic Thompson and Lee Trevino earned their livings and their reputations.
3501 Samuel Blvd
Dallas, Texas 75223
Dallas County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 72 | 7078 yards
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The Hills Course, built almost 20 years after the Prestonwood Country Club opened, is a more forgiving links-style design with wide fairways and large greens. Dave Bennett designed the course, which features pot and grass bunkers, as well as tough, undulating greens.
15909 Preston Rd
Dallas, Texas 75248
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 72 | 6451 yards
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Built in 1979 in the floodplain of the Elm Fork Trinity River, this course was designed with the average golfer in mind. Numerous lakes and ponds require accurate shot-making. In fact, water is in play on all but 3 holes and often impacts both the tee and approach shots.
2323 N Jim Miller Rd
Dallas, Texas 75227
Dallas County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 72 | 6521 yards
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L.B. Houston is a crusty old Dallas municipal that hosts upwards of 80,000 rounds per year. It’s located in the floodplains of the Elm fork of the Trinity River just west of I-35 between Northwest Hwy. and Hwy. 635.
11223 Luna Rd
Dallas, Texas 75229
Dallas County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 72 | 6705 yards
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Dallas experienced the golf craze after Dallas Country Club opened around the turn of the century, enabling clubs like Lakewood, which was founded in 1912, to generate the necessary funds to become established and build golf courses.
6430 Gaston Ave
Dallas, Texas 75214
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 71 | 6712 yards
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One of the largest golf complexes in Texas when it was built in 1959, Brookhaven CC features three Press Maxwell-designed courses that offer a wonderful variety of golf. The signature course of the facility is the Master’s Course, which was renovated in the early 1990s by Jeff Brauer and now boasts a brand-new set of bent-grass greens from work done in 2002.
3333 Golfing Green Dr
Dallas, Texas 75234
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 72 | 6879 yards
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Not many know it’s there, but in the floodplains west of I-35 there is a little gem of a lighted 9-hole track, complete with $1 beer nights and a full practice facility that’s the absolute best way to tune your game for weekend rounds.
2101 Walnut Hill Ln
Dallas, Texas 75229
Dallas County
9 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 27 | 1037 yards
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The Championship Course is not as difficult as the Master’s, but offers plenty of challenging holes. No. 10 is the most difficult--a long par 4 that bends right, it requires a perfect drive to set up a reasonable approach over the lake to the green.
3333 Golfing Green Dr
Dallas, Texas 75234
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 72 | 5501 yards
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What makes this one of the best golf courses in the state? Let’s list the reasons: Location: Far north Dallas, with White Rock Creek meandering through. Layout: Stunning and traditional, with tree-lined fairways, the right amount of water and bunkering, and huge, lightning-fast bent-grass greens.
17201 Preston Trail Dr
Dallas, TX 75248-1204
United States
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 72 | 7091 yards
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Royal Oaks opened in 1969 with a difficult Don January and Billy Martindale design, which was made even more challenging with Jay Morrish’s renovation in 1985. The course lays out in the floodplain of White Rock Creek just east of I-75 north of downtown Dallas, and was noted in the late 1990s as the home course for US Amateur and British Open Champion Justin Leonard.
7915 Greenville Ave
Dallas, Texas 75231
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 71 | 7068 yards
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Stevens is another Dallas tradition that dates back to the 1920s–a tight course with unbelievably small greens and wild doglegged holes that laugh at drivers. Creeks and streams dot the landscape, and those tiny greens are fast.
1005 N Montclair Ave
Dallas, Texas 75208
Dallas County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 71 | 6005 yards
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Northwood is a private, traditional course that held the US Open won by Julius Boros in 1952. In 1947, a man named Bill Diddel came down from Indianapolis to design what ended up being his only Texas course.
6524 Alpha Rd
Dallas, Texas 75240
Dallas County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 71 | 6835 yards
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Conveniently located adjacent to the DFW Airport, Bear Creek serves up two Ted Robinson-designed 18-hole masterpieces that are known for their stunning topography and outstanding greens. And with both courses playing around 6,700 yards from the tips, golfers can hit long irons and fairway woods off the tee to keep it in the fairway, which is mandatory for a good round on these tight courses.
3500 W Airfield Dr
Dallas, Texas 75261
Dallas County
