Dallas National Golf Club

Tom Fazio designed Dallas National Golf Club in 2002 on a piece of Dallas, Texas southern-suburban land overlooking the Trinity River valley. The course was conceived as a private national club rather than a regional country club — Dallas National's membership is composed primarily of national golf-industry, finance, and corporate figures who travel to Dallas for visits rather than play out of the property routinely. Fazio routed the eighteen holes through significant elevation changes — the property drops 100 feet from the high points to the Trinity River bottom — with native oak and the Texas Blackland Prairie ecology as the architectural setting.

The course plays around 7,377 yards par 72 from the championship markers, with bermuda fairways and a slope in the upper 140s. Fazio's signature throughout is the large, contoured green complexes and the strategic decisions that depend on tee-ball positioning given the elevation changes. The fifteenth hole is a 462-yard par-4 with a tee shot played from an elevated tee to a fairway 80 feet below; the seventeenth, a 224-yard par-3 across a natural depression, is the routing's most-discussed one-shotter. The Trinity River corridor through the back nine gives the property visual signature distinct from the broader Dallas-Fort Worth country-club landscape.

Dallas National is private and access is members and accompanied guests only. The national-composition membership model and the hospitality emphasis on guest-stay programming differentiate the property from the regional Dallas-area private clubs. Caddies are available; carts are standard given the property's elevation changes.

North Texas climate gives Dallas National a playing season of February through November, with the firmest conditions in May and 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. The Trinity River corridor gives the property reliable groundwater that keeps the fairways green through summer heat.