Best golf courses near Mckinney, TX

Preston Trail Golf Club is our sixth-ranked course in Texas.

The East Course at the Omni PGA Frisco is one of two courses to open at the new Fields Ranch Golf Club. Alongside the Beau Welling-designed West course is the East, built by Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner, which measures over 7,800 yards from the championship tees and puts a greater emphasis on driving than the West, demanding length, accuracy and the courage to take on cross-bunkers and central hazards. The greens, perched above bunkers and chipping runoffs, are smaller and require controlled approaches, and the holes of the second nine prowl the basin of Panther Creek. Both courses opened in May 2023, and the East has already hosted the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship. It is set to host a number of other prestigious events, including the PGA Championship (2027, 2034), the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship (2025, 2031) and the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship again in 2029.

Beau Welling, the lead architect for Tiger Woods’ design company, was instrumental in building Bluejack National, ranked fourth in the state. He returned to Texas with his own design of Fields Ranch West Course at the new Omni PGA Frisco, headquarters of the PGA of America, a course designed to be a swashbuckling, playable alter-ego to the more tournament-oriented East Course. Welling accentuated the site’s gradual elevations to create a number of downhill drives to go along with large, roller-coaster greens and fairways that stretch 50 to 90 yards across. As one of our course-ranking panelists put it, “America definitely needs more courses like the West—fun to play, tough to lose balls and good birdie opportunities with well-executed shots.”

The Dye course at Stonebridge Ranch originally debuted in 1988 and was designed by Pete Dye and his son Perry. Host of the 1994 NCAA Championships, the Dye course is the signature of the three courses at Stonebridge Ranch and is rich with classic Pete Dye design elements, like undulating fairways guarded by snaking bunkers and hazards and exposed railroad ties on greens and island tee boxes. Tall fescue grasses bordering fairways and large sloping greens make Stonebridge Ranch a stark test, something Pete Dye himself confirmed when he is said to have labeled the final four holes the hardest finishing stretch he had ever set on a golf course. The closing holes are highlighted by the long par-3 17th, played to a narrow green visually shrunk by the railroad ties and water hazard that guard its front.

TPC Craig Ranch, located in the Dallas suburb of McKinney, is a Tom Weiskopf design that plays among gently rolling hills and on the limestone banks of Rowlett Creek, which crosses the course 14 times. In 2020, the course signed a five-year agreement to host the PGA Tour’s AT&T Byron Nelson. South Korean K.H. Lee captured the first two titles at TPC Craig Ranch, which has surrendered low scoring in each of the three years it's held the event, 2021, 2022 and 2023.