Dallas Country Club

Dallas Country Club has operated on a piece of Highland Park, Texas Dallas inner-suburban land since 1896 — making it the oldest country club in Texas and one of the older country clubs in the American Southwest. The original routing was designed in the late 1890s and has been redesigned multiple times since with significant work through subsequent decades and continuing agronomic-and-architectural updates. The modern course reflects the multi-era design history with continuing restoration work that has preserved the institutional character through generations.

The course plays around 6,500 yards par 71 from the back markers, with bermuda fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The yardage is short by modern championship standards, but the routing's age and the natural Dallas Inner Loop terrain — the property has been a golf course continuously since 1896 — give the course defense that modern equipment doesn't overcome through length alone. The fairways play firm given the North Texas clay subsoil. The mature pecan and live-oak canopy through the property has grown to championship-narrowing dimensions over the club's 125-plus year history.

Dallas Country Club is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The membership is regional Highland Park and Dallas Inner Loop business and professional families with multi-generation ties through the club's late-1800s founding. The institutional history as Texas's oldest country club is the primary identity, and the hospitality model is traditional country club.

North Texas climate gives Dallas Country Club a playing season of February through November, with the firmest conditions in October. Dallas summers run hot and humid; morning rounds are the routine member play through July and August. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps.