Brook Hollow Golf Club

Brook Hollow was born in 1920 when Dallas businessman Cameron Buxton invited his Philadelphia golfing friend, architect A.W. Tillinghast, to find and build a course near the city. Tillinghast selected a gently rolling, sandy-soiled site beside a branch of the Trinity River west of downtown, prizing the free-draining ground that would sustain firm fairways in the Texas climate. The result was one of Tillinghast's early standalone commissions and remains among the most historic private clubs in the state. Over more than nine decades Brook Hollow has hosted a deep roster of championships, including the 1951 U.S. Women's Amateur, along with U.S. Mid-Amateur, Southern Amateur, Trans-Mississippi and numerous Texas state and USGA qualifying events. Long admired by architecture enthusiasts as a benchmark of Golden Age design in the Southwest, the course has been the focus of careful restoration efforts intended to recover and protect Tillinghast's original bunkering and strategic character.