Dallas National Golf Club - Texas, U.S.A.

Dallas National, a private course that opened in 2002, is built on 388 acres of rolling land crowned by woods of cedar, elm, and oak, and fields of wildflowers, defying all preconceptions of the topography of North Texas. Founder John MacDonald brought in designer Tom Fazio to build a demanding course that plays a whopping 7,326 yards from the Texas tees. The layout traverses creeks, canyons, and two plateaus on the Dallas-Duncanville-Grand Prairie borders, only six miles from downtown Dallas, with elevation changes of more than 170 feet. There are eight wood-trellised bridges to link the holes across the dramatic terrain. The members of Dallas National include Texas Ranger turned Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez, baseball's wealthiest player and a dedicated golfer, hockey's Brett Hull, and golf legend and Dallas native Lee Trevino.

Barton Creek Resort and Country Club - Texas, U.S.A.

Barton Creek Resort and Country Club, located in the Texas Hill Country just 15 minutes west of downtown Austin, features a cornucopia of outstanding courses by Tom Fazio, Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore, and Arnold Palmer. Fazio designed the Foothills Course in 1986 and followed it with the Canyons Course in 2000. Native son Crenshaw and his partner Coore are responsible for the Crenshaw Cliffside layout. Palmer's Lakeside Course is located 25 miles away on the shores of Lake Travis. Laid out over 210 acres, the Canyons Course runs through a box canyon with Short Springs Branch Creek coming into play. The course is terraced through hillsides ribbed with limestone, with prickly pear cactus, Spanish oaks, red oaks, junipers, sycamore, and orange-skinned madrone trees along the fairways. From 1990 to 1994, Barton Creek hosted the Legends of Golf tournament on the Champions Tour.