Dallas/Ft Worth Area Courses

[gs1184]

1 hour ago, PaulCar65 said:

So we have a group of 4 going up around May, None of us have played in the Dallas area before. We were thinking of the Tour 18 and the TPC course. We are going to be playing 3 rounds. Any recommendations?

Texas Rangers golf course

Waterchase

Texas Star

Hawks Creek

Tierra Verde

[PaulCar65]

20 minutes ago, gs1184 said:

Texas Rangers golf course

Waterchase

Texas Star

Hawks Creek

Tierra Verde

Thanks.

[cjblake09]

4 hours ago, PaulCar65 said:

Thanks.

What part of town are you staying in?  Budget?

[PaulCar65]

3 hours ago, cjblake09 said:

What part of town are you staying in?  Budget?

Probably around Plano, we really do not have a budget. Just looking for nice places to play. Thanks

[cjblake09]

7 hours ago, PaulCar65 said:

Probably around Plano, we really do not have a budget. Just looking for nice places to play. Thanks

@gs1184 listed some nice courses but some are pretty far from Plano if you don't mind driving so here are a couple that are closer to Plano.

The PGA Fields are obviously nice but pushing $400-500 for the East course. 

Old American use to host a LPGA event and is a fun track.  

Pecan Hollow-Plano muni always in good shape

Tennison Park-Highlands course- Dallas muni but fun with elevation

Cowboys-Had to throw it in but it is a meh for me. 

 

 

 

[sethdavidsdad]

I’m in town for next couple of days. Want to play today and tomorrow but I’m a single. Any recommendations don’t have to play a high end course. Just want somewhere with good greens and in good shape. 
staying downtown but don’t mind driving 30 minutes or so

Edited January 16 by sethdavidsdad

[cjblake09]

2 hours ago, sethdavidsdad said:

I’m in town for next couple of days. Want to play today and tomorrow but I’m a single. Any recommendations don’t have to play a high end course. Just want somewhere with good greens and in good shape. 
staying downtown but don’t mind driving 30 minutes or so

Tennison Highlands course, Pecan Hollow, Mesquite gc, Cedar Crest(awesome course but conditions vary), Waterchase

[callawayjay]

3 hours ago, sethdavidsdad said:

I’m in town for next couple of days. Want to play today and tomorrow but I’m a single. Any recommendations don’t have to play a high end course. Just want somewhere with good greens and in good shape. 
staying downtown but don’t mind driving 30 minutes or so

Better get something in tomorrow because I’m getting emails from a lot of the courses that are going to be closed for about a week or so because of the stupid temperatures. It gets too hot here to be that cold.

[cjblake09]

5 hours ago, callawayjay said:

Better get something in tomorrow because I’m getting emails from a lot of the courses that are going to be closed for about a week or so because of the stupid temperatures. It gets too hot here to be that cold.

Saw Grapevine is closing tomorrow at noon!  It will not get close to freezing until Saturday night.  

[gs1184]

Got that Grapevine email too. I am sure a bunch of people are pissed their teatimes are cancelled. lol

[NorthTexasGlfr]

15 hours ago, cjblake09 said:

Saw Grapevine is closing tomorrow at noon!  It will not get close to freezing until Saturday night.  

 

That's really surprising for today (Friday). The wind is going to be howling out of the south but its also going to be around 60 degrees.

 

Saturday I can see. On Saturday afternoon, it's supposed to be something like in the mid-40's and sunny. But the wind is going to be howling out of the north. 

[560ti]

18 hours ago, cjblake09 said:

Saw Grapevine is closing tomorrow at noon!  It will not get close to freezing until Saturday night.  

 

3 hours ago, NorthTexasGlfr said:

 

That's really surprising for today (Friday). The wind is going to be howling out of the south but its also going to be around 60 degrees.

Some courses are starting today so it guarantees they'll have it all done by tomorrow night. The course by my house is sending the last person off at noon so they will try to get the first 5 or 6 holes covered today before the crew leaves and then that will leave them all of tomorrow to do the remaining holes + practice/chipping green areas.

Edited January 17 by 560ti

[Juan29]

Can anyone recommend a weekly night league in the Dallas area? I know this is asked but courses just don’t seem to have them down here. Other than Keeton Park.

[cjblake09]

Anyone been down to Cedar Crest lately that could tell me about the conditions?  

 

Played Sugar Tree yesterday and it was in good shape for the winter months.  Bonus was I teed off at 8 and done by 9:45.

 

 

[tlknight]

On 2/7/2025 at 9:50 AM, cjblake09 said:

Anyone been down to Cedar Crest lately that could tell me about the conditions?  

 

Played Sugar Tree yesterday and it was in good shape for the winter months.  Bonus was I teed off at 8 and done by 9:45.

 

Played it on 12/23 and it was in really good shape for winter. 

Edited February 8 by tlknight

[jrelurker7]

Played Cedar Crest 2/8 its in good shape for the winter. Really hope they can keep it in good shape its a really fun place to play.

[TexasTurf]

12 hours ago, jrelurker7 said:

Played Cedar Crest 2/8 its in good shape for the winter. Really hope they can keep it in good shape its a really fun place to play.

Agreed. Dallas is pretty good about supporting their courses. Their large neighbor to the west is unfortunately trying to kill or sell off all their properties. 

[560ti]

The upcoming Bent Tree course renovation is rumored to be similar price tag to the Colonials. Somewhere in the low to mid 20 million range. Bent Tree announced on their website that Beau Welling will be doing the renovation which is a great name to have. 

 

Crazy that the last 6 or 7 years have been all of the equity clubs trying to outdo each other. Competition is fierce right now in the DFW country club landscape. 

Edited February 14 by 560ti

[FuzzyKnuckles]

Yep and add in Lakewood gearing up to do a big one too with Andrew Green

[NorthTexasGlfr]

Certainly not on the same level as Bent Tree or Lakewood, but Hurricane Creek up in Anna is another equity club looking at a major renovation probably in the $15 million range. 

[iACE13]

On 2/11/2025 at 11:08 PM, TexasTurf said:

Agreed. Dallas is pretty good about supporting their courses. Their large neighbor to the west is unfortunately trying to kill or sell off all their properties. 

You cant be talking about City of FTW golf right? What they did renovating Rockwood and then going in and currently renovating Meadowbrook is more than the city of Dallas as dreamt of doing to their public golf program lol So much so they put Cedar Crest out to bid because they cant put their little heads together and figure out a competent way to keep the place alive. 

[TexasTurf]

On 2/18/2025 at 8:42 AM, iACE13 said:

You cant be talking about City of FTW golf right? What they did renovating Rockwood and then going in and currently renovating Meadowbrook is more than the city of Dallas as dreamt of doing to their public golf program lol So much so they put Cedar Crest out to bid because they cant put their little heads together and figure out a competent way to keep the place alive. 

Not worth it

Edited February 19 by TexasTurf
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[iACE13]

7 hours ago, TexasTurf said:

Absolutely talking about Ft. Worth. They have done a great job of building 2 new courses in the past several (10) years. Rockwood and Meadowbrook this past year.

 

However, they are abysmal at following up after construction to keep them up. Like buying a new car and never changing the oil.

 

Rockwood hast completely lost their greens twice since opening. Pecan Hollow's irrigation system is still hydraulic based and is at this point completely non-functional because there are no longer any parts to be had to support that type of system. Only thing keeping that place alive the last few years is some fortunate rainfall events late summer.

 

The city wants nothing to do with these courses and is actively searching for buyers. Your tax dollars hard at work. Don't kill the messenger. 

I’m confused why we are now talking about Pecan Hollow who has nothing to do with either the City of Dallas or City of FTW public golf…

[TexasTurf]

16 hours ago, iACE13 said:

I’m confused why we are now talking about Pecan Hollow who has nothing to do with either the City of Dallas or City of FTW public golf…

I believe we have actually met in "real life," and I apologize for what I said regarding Pecan Hollow. Best public course in the metroplex by far, I was referring to Pecan Valley.

[iACE13]

9 hours ago, TexasTurf said:

I believe we have actually met in "real life," and I apologize for what I said regarding Pecan Hollow. Best public course in the metroplex by far, I was referring to Pecan Valley.

We have, I’ve played your place and you’ve played mine, also not the first time we’ve had conversation on your “hot takes” then you delete the original message. Disagreements are healthy but it’s hard to hold on when the facts aren’t there, show me the capital improvements done or planned by city of Dallas, vs the city of ftw planned and completed full golf course reno capital improvements. I could be wrong but last time I remember a CoD course closing for improvements was Stephens park and Cedar crest but both of them was a forced closure from losing turf.
 

Cedar crest also lost their greens twice recently, different than what happened at Rockwood and being in the industry you should know that. They also put the place out to bid… CoD closed the Glen course at Tenison, FTW currently has Meadowbrook under the knife after all the success Trey Kemp and Colligan had at Rockwood with the redo. 
 

Agree with you on not maintaining a municipal after it does get redone but most of the time that’s not the fault of the Superintendent. Sometimes it is, but they don’t have the money, time or resources to do what we do on our level. It’s also not 180k and $2k a month to be there. Perception is reality… 

Edited February 20 by iACE13

[callawayjay]

Whoever owns trails of frisco needs to just punt. For all the activity there today to be that downtrodden is just not acceptable. Stay away

[JetSpeed79]

2 hours ago, callawayjay said:

Whoever owns trails of frisco needs to just punt. For all the activity there today to be that downtrodden is just not acceptable. Stay away

Sad to hear. Years ago (like 15 years ago) it was a decent spot that I played pretty regularly. Thanks for the update. 

[TexasTurf]

3 hours ago, callawayjay said:

Whoever owns trails of frisco needs to just punt. For all the activity there today to be that downtrodden is just not acceptable. Stay away

That sucks CJ. The Good Good guys did a bunch of videos out there in recent years and it always looked great.

[cjblake09]

16 hours ago, callawayjay said:

Whoever owns trails of frisco needs to just punt. For all the activity there today to be that downtrodden is just not acceptable. Stay away

You should have texted and i would have told you not worth the drive.  They did finally fix the bridges but the bunkers are a joke.

[callawayjay]

2 hours ago, cjblake09 said:

You should have texted and i would have told you not worth the drive.  They did finally fix the bridges but the bunkers are a joke.

it was a tournament, but it was just awful. The bunkers actually had new sand in them. But they don’t seem to want to  aerify the fairways.