With its rolling plains, huge skies and abundance of eager players, Texas is firmly golf country.
As such, it only makes sense that it’s one of the few states on the PGA Tour to boast four distinct tournaments. The Houston and Texas Open form a charming interlude between the Tour’s early season West Coast Swing and Masters week, after which the Tour returns later in the season for the Charles Schwab Challenge and The CJ Cup Byron Nelson.
These four tournaments also form an ode to a state that boasts some of the nation’s most spectacular golf courses, spanning all of the state’s major cities, hill country and secluded forests alike. As such, if you’re planning a visit to the Lone Star state yourself, we thought we’d celebrate the PGA Tour’s Texas arrival by rounding up the best courses to get on your itinerary.
Courtesy Whispering Pines Golf Club
Whispering Pines
Location: Trinity, Texas
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Green fees (weekday): POA (Private)
Widely hailed as the best course in all of Texas, Whispering Pines has an exclusive and private air about it, with just 160 members playing it in the six months of the year that it’s open. Its only tournament hosting duties coming biennially with the advent of the Spirit International Amateur Golf Championship.
As the name implies, golf at Whispering Pines is secluded and defined by tight, tree-lined fairways, however the course truly cements itself as the state’s best in its closing holes, as it winds along the shoreline of Caney Creek and Lake Livingston with dramatic green complexes that just out into the water.
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Courtesy Dallas National Golf Club
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Dallas National
Location: Dallas, Texas
Green fees (weekday): POA (Private)
One of the Dallas area’s most exclusive private members’ clubs, Dallas National also plays host to a course widely hailed as the best in the DFW area. Laid out by Tom Fazio, who recently led the redesign of Ryder Cup host venue Adare Manor, Dallas National is famous for its spectacular tee views and rustic feel away from the clubhouse, with gully-spanning tee shots and raised landing areas that make the most of the undulating terrain.
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Courtesy Bluejack National Golf Club
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Bluejack National
Location: Montgomery, Texas
Green fees (weekday): POA (Private)
Famed as the first golf course in the USA designed by one Tiger Woods, Bluejack National has shot through the Texas rankings in recent years and is now seen as one of the state’s premier layouts.
True to Tiger’s philosophy, Bluejack National is themed around fun, approachability and encouraging creative shotmaking, with tight, tree-lined fairways, a near complete absence of rough, and rolling terrain that snakes its way through the area’s natural pine forest in a manner not dissimilar to Augusta National. Sadly, access is restricted to members and local residents.
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Courtesy Colonial Country Club
Colonial Country Club
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Green fees (weekday): POA (Private)
Another highly-exclusive club in the DFW area, Colonial is known the golf world over for its annual hosting of the Charles Schwab challenge, but is also one of the few Texan courses with US Open bragging rights, having hosted the major back in the ’40s. As such, membership here is one of Fort Worth’s hottest commodities, with initiation fees reportedly in the vicinity of $80,000.
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Courtesy Spanish Oaks Golf Club
Spanish Oaks
Location: Bee Cave, Texas
Green fees (weekday): POA (Private)
Widely regarded among Texas’s most exclusive private members’ clubs (initiation fees venture well into the six-figures), Spanish Oaks also offers one of the state’s most revered courses, laid out in the late 2000s by Pete Dye protege Bobby Weed. The design here is purposefully low-impact and respectful of the area’s natural topography and fauna, resulting in an undulating, varied test of golf that has drawn the club plenty of high-profile fans. Sergio Garcia is reportedly a member.
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Courtesy TPC
TPC San Antonio
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Green fees (weekday): POA (Private)
Texas’s newest course in the TPC course network, San Antonio opened to adulation in 2010 featuring two acclaimed championship courses: the longer Oaks Course, designed by Greg Norman, and the Pete Dye-designed Canyon course. The former is the current home of the Valero Texas Open, while the latter was formerly a routine stop on the Champions Tour.
While TPC San Antonio is technically a private course, it is accessible to the public through stay and play packages. Guests will have to book a stay at the neighbouring JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa to get on the course.
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TPC Craig Ranch
Location: McKinney, Texas
Green fees (weekday): POA (Private)
Regarded as one of the easier stops on the PGA Tour (Scottie Scheffler won in 2025 with a total score of -31), TPC Craig Ranch is ready to bear its teeth in 2026 having just completed work on a $22 million renovation that saw brand new turf laid and updates to the green layout to make for a sterner test of stadium golf.
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This undulating, gully-streaked course hugs the length of Rowlett Creek, making for a narrow test of golf where hazards and waste bunkers are a near-constant menace – a test made even sterner by the recent upgrades. The new course will get its first true test in May, when The CJ Cup Byron Nelson returns to McKinney.
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Courtesy Trinity Forest Golf Club
Trinity Forest
Location: Dallas, Texas
Green fees (weekday): POA (Private)
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One of Texas’s most unique courses, Dallas’s Trinity Forest takes what appears to be a true Scottish-style links and plants it into the Great Trinity Forest: one of the United States’ largest urban forests. Expect wide open golf with rolling double greens and bushy gorse in place of trees, thoroughly unlike what you’d expect to find elsewhere in Texas. It’s no wonder, then, that it’s already been called upon for PGA Tour hosting duties, playing home to the AT&T Byron Nelson in 2018 just two years after it opened.
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Courtesy PGA Frisco
PGA Frisco
Location: Frisco, Texas
Green fees (weekday): $350
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One of Texas’s largest and most celebrated golfing destinations, PGA Frisco spans three courses (two championship and one 10-hole par 3 course), on-site ranch accommodation and a full-service resort and spa. It also has some of the best golf stores and practice facilities in the nation, including the Dance Floor: a 2-acre putting green that’s among the largest in America.
The two Championship-calibre Fields Ranch courses, set amidst rolling hills and grassy valleys, are the most celebrated here, with the Fields Ranch East Course in particular widely regarded among the top 10 courses in the state.
PGA Frisco will step into the spotlight properly in 2027, playing host to the first Texas-set PGA Championship in more than 60 years.
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Courtesy Memorial Park Golf Club
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Memorial Park
Location: Austin, Texas
Green fees (weekday): $120
Memorial Park is among the world’s most unique municipal golf courses for multiple reasons. It’s one of the few government-run courses to host its own PGA Tour stop (in the form of the Houston Open), and also boasts a Tom Doak design, the acclaimed architect completing a multi-year revamp of the 1930s design back in 2019.
Local residents can play the course year-round for under $40, while visitors can expect to pay a bit more. Even so, it remains one of the cheapest ways to play a bona fide PGA Tour course anywhere in the States.
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