Fort Worth Golf Courses
Known as one of the all-time Texas classics, Colonial Country Club opened in 1935 after Marvin Leonard hired John Bredemus to route 18 holes through the lush Trinity River bottoms and implement his newfound breed of bent-grass greens.
3735 Country Club Circle
Fort Worth, Texas 76109
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 70 | 7010 yards
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Diamond Oaks dates back to 1960 when Charles Akey, who worked as the field engineer for Robert Trent Jones and Ralph Plummer, was hired to mold the densely wooded terrain around Fossil Creek.
5821 Diamond Oaks Dr No
Fort Worth, Texas 76117
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 70 | 6850 yards
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Don January was hired to mold this terrain along Eagle Mountain Lake, building a course once known by its wildly confusing name of Lake Country Country Club. Nine holes opened in the 1970s, and the layout was eventually expanded to 18 and named Eagle Mountain Country Club.
7200 Golf Club Dr
Fort Worth, Texas 76179
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 72 | 6550 yards
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Glen Garden is old-school--a Texas classic where Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan learned the game as caddies back in the 1920s. One of Texas’ oldest golf facilities, the old clubhouse that was built in 1912 has been replaced with a new $1.2 million facility complete with nostalgic memorabilia gracing the walls.
2916 Glen Garden Dr S
Fort Worth, Texas 76119
Tarrant County
The Golf Club at Champions Circle has earned a reputation for its extreme difficulty, with one story stating that the designer himself, Greg Norman, rolled into town one day for a round and had trouble breaking par, even running out of balls in the process.
3300 Champion Parkway
Fort Worth, TX, 76177
The links-style Fossil Creek was nominated by Golf Digest as one of the “Best New Public Courses” in the state when it opened in 1988, and has lived up to that advance billing since then.
3401 Club Gate Dr
Fort Worth, Texas 76137
Tarrant County
The Golf Club at the Resort is one of Fort Worth's finest golfing destinations. The course sprawls across the rolling hills of north Texas and wraps around the shores of Eagle Mountain Lake. Mature live oaks line the narrow fairways, providing some tight holes with difficult shot selections that demand accuracy, but there are also holes with open, more forgiving tees
5700 Resort Blvd
Fort Worth, TX 76179
United States
The old Carswell Golf Club is renovated and boasts a new name, sporting new bent-grass greens, 419 Bermuda fairways and tees, and a new irrigation system that will hopefully keep it in the kind of superb condition that will make this a new favorite in Fort Worth.
6520 White Settlement Rd
Fort Worth, Texas 76114
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 72 | 6847 yards
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The old Pecan Valley muni has evolved over the years as the successful culmination of work between the Army Corps of Engineer, the city of Fort Worth, and the Tarrant County Water Control District.
6400 Pecan Valley Dr
Fort Worth, Texas 76132
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 72 | 6577 yards
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The 9-hole Jim McLean Golf Center in Fort Worth, TX is a public golf course that opened in 1999. Jim McLean Golf Center measures 1462 yards from the longest tees. The greens are bermuda grass.
8940 Creek Run Rd.
Ft. Worth, Texas 76120
9 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 27 | 1462 yards
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Bring your best game to the Links at Waterchase--a long, difficult course that can be had if you get your mind right. Intimidating because of its length (7,304 yards), much of the extra yardage comes from five excruciatingly long par 5s.
8951 Creek Run Road
Fort Worth, TX 76120
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 72 | 7289 yards
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Eight years before he built Colonial Country Club, John Bredemus came to Fort Worth to build Meadowbrook. The city bought the facility years later and brought Ralph Plummer in for renovations in 1962, when the creation of dams formed five new lakes and improved the irrigation system.
1815 Jensen Rd
Fort Worth, Texas 76112
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 71 | 6262 yards
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Mira Vista CC opened in 1987 with a Tom Wieskopf/Jay Morrish design. The parkland-style layout rolls through hills of native grasses and wildflowers, sweeping around three lakes that spice up the course.
6600 Mira Vista Blvd
Fort Worth, Texas 76132
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 71 | 6892 yards
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One of the state’s largest country clubs, this facility offers two scenic courses that are quite challenging. The North Course is an old, traditional course that features narrow fairways and small greens. Both courses were updated in 1988 by Jay Morrish and are very well maintained.
3700 Bernie Anderson Avenue
Fort Worth, Texas 76116
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 71 | 6467 yards
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The 9-hole Par 3 Course at Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth, TX is a private golf course that opened in 1958. Greens and fairways are bent grass.
320 Roaring Springs Rd
Fort Worth, Texas 76114
Tarrant County
9 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 28 | 1228 yards
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The River Course, the older of the two courses at Pecan Valley, was designed by Ralph Plummer, who made it playable for the average hack. Although two of the par 3s play well over 200 yards (Nos. 6 and 7), three of the par 5s are under 480 yards.
6400 Pecan Valley Dr
Fort Worth, Texas 76132
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 70 | 6609 yards
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River Crest is the oldest course in Fort Worth, dating back to 1911 and preceded in the DFW area only by Dallas Country Club. Tom Bendelow, who also built the Dallas club, originally designed the course, which is relatively short by modern standards.
1501 Western Ave
Fort Worth, Texas 76107
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 70 | 6368 yards
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The original Rockwood Golf Course was opened for play in 1938. It was designed by Golf Course Architect John Bredemus, with subsequent upgrades by Golf Course Architect Ralph Plummer. The "Rock" Course is an 18 hole regulation course.
1851 Jacksboro Hwy
Fort Worth, Texas 76114
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 70 | 6350 yards
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Home of the great Ben Hogan, and built by the famed Marvin Leonard, Shady Oaks is an exclusive club that was originally built for the average golfer. Leonard bought the land, known as the “Lone Oak Tract,” from the Amon Carter Foundation and hired Robert Trent Jones to design the course over 200 acres of the 1,200-acre tract.
320 Roaring Springs Rd
Fort Worth, Texas 76114
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 71 | 7003 yards
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The more difficult of the two courses at Ridglea CC, the South Course was designed by Ralph Plummer in 1955 and is reserved exclusively for use by men. Jay Morrish renovated the course in 1988.
3700 Bernie Anderson Ave
Fort Worth, Texas 76116
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 72 | 7125 yards
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Originally built in 1932, this longtime 9-hole favorite has been beloved by downtowners for ages because of its central location. The city purchased the course in 1977 and expanded the original 36 acres to 92 in the early 1990s.
401 Martin Luther King Jr Fwy
Fort Worth, Texas 76104
Tarrant County
9 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 35 | 3070 yards
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In 1963 Fort Worth’s Fouts family opened Timberview as a 9-hole facility that subsequently became very popular, providing impetus for an additional nine holes. The design features flat, tree-lined fairways with water in play on half the holes.
4508 E Enon Rd
Fort Worth, Texas 76140
Tarrant County
The ever-busy Leon Howard came to Woodhaven in 1969 to build this par 71 6,565-yard layout. Howard’s traditional design features narrow-tree lined fairways, a significant amount of hills, out-of-bounds lining the fairways, and many challenging doglegs.
913 Country Club Ln
Fort Worth, Texas 76112
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Private golf course
| Par: 71 | 6431 yards
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Z Boaz has two separate lives–the pre-World War II layout, designed by John Bredemus, that was shut down for the war, and the post-war Ralph Plummer design that has been a staple for Fort Worth hacks for ages.
3200 Lackland Rd
Fort Worth, Texas 76116
Tarrant County
18 Holes | Public golf course
| Par: 70 | 6033 yards
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