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D-FW golf is in full boom

Texas Golf 2008 cover

Barney Adams used to sell his custom clubs out of Hank Haney's Golf Ranch in McKinney. About a decade later, Plano-based Adams Golf has 16 staff pros, the leading hybrid club on three tours combined, and sixth-best market share in iron sales. Haney's empire includes the industry's biggest giant, Tiger Woods. Adams and Haney are two examples of the Dallas area's impact on golf. Imprints the size of Big Tex's Footjoys can be found all over Dallas and Fort Worth.

Triple Crown for Whispering Pines
Whispering Pines Golf Club founder Corby Robertson Jr. has a theory as to why the course is on top of The News ' state golf rankings for the third consecutive year.

Long drivers can look forward to two challenging new courses
While the pace of new course construction in North Texas has slowed markedly, it is notable that two new courses scheduled to open this year are about 14 miles apart in Grayson County. Both are centerpieces of master-planned communities.

Best new course: The Clubs of Cordillera Ranch
Texas has long been ignored for major tournaments, in part because the courses aren't perched on cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, or in the shadows of the Rocky Mountains, or on the East Coast.

Texas' most beautiful holes
For the last five years, Texas Golf's most beautiful holes haven't changed much. Maybe it's just that these holes get prettier with age.

Presence of legend felt in changes at TPC
To lead the TPC Four Seasons at Las Colinas into the future, D.A. Weibring looked at the past.

Craig Ranch to host Nationwide finale
The Dallas area has not had a major in almost 50 years, but it remains a major player in tournament golf, having staged virtually every kind of event.

Amateur event visits Hogan home
Shady Oaks Country Club's trump card for landing the U.S. Senior Amateur Championship was Ben Hogan.

TopGolf targets holes in game
TopGolf Dallas offers players practically every golf-related activity under one roof, including a roof. The new practice facility left nothing uncovered when opening its Dallas location.

Texas' 18 best holes
Whispering Pines, the No. 1 course for the third consecutive year, has five holes on the list, one more than in 2007.

What's new in 2008-09
If all goes well, the New Course at The Tribute will open in June 2009, nine years after its sister course, The Tribute, opened and 10 years after designer Tripp Davis completed the routing plan for both courses.

Pro events in Texas

A great score: 20 years of Texas Golf
From the seed of an idea in 1989, Texas Golf sprouted into what it has become today.

The Top 50 (.pdf)

The Next 50 (.pdf)

Top 25 Dallas-area private, public courses
The top 25 Dallas-area private and public courses, as voted on by the Texas Golf panel.

Top 25 most expensive courses ($76 and above) (.pdf)

Top 25 high-priced courses ($55-$75) (.pdf)

Top 25 mid-priced courses ($41-$54) (.pdf)

Top 25 economy courses ($40 and below) (.pdf)

Top 25 nine-hole courses (.pdf)

The top 100 courses you can play
The top 100 courses open to the public. To be eligible for the list, course must have been voted on by at least 10 panel members.

Practice facilities
This list of driving ranges for the Dallas-Fort Worth area was compiled using a variety of sources, including the Northern Texas PGA. To update information for this list, send an e-mail to texasgolf@dallasnews.com.

The Top 100: Through the years (.pdf)

How the rankings are determined
This is the 20th year The Dallas Morning News has published Texas Golf, and we continue to make changes based on feedback from club pros, players, course officials and other readers.

The voters for best courses

Criteria for voting best courses
The criteria used in voting for the 100 Best Courses.

Area calendar
To submit tournaments for the area golf calendar, send the information to texasgolf@dallasnews.com or via facsimile machine to 214-651-0580.

Texas Golf 2008 cover (.pdf)

Texas Golf 2008 complete section (.pdf)

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