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    Colonial Country Club

    Colonial Country Club

    3735 Country Club Cir

    Fort Worth, TX 76109-1099

    United States

    Overview

    We give credit to Texas golf historian Frances G. Trimble for establishing the fact that Perry Maxwell, not John Bredemus, originally designed Colonial Country Club for Fort Worth businessman Marvin Leonard. Both architects submitted routings. Maxwell’s was used, while Bredemus supervised construction. Colonial sported the first bentgrass greens in Texas when it opened in 1936. In 1939, the USGA awarded Colonial its 1941 U.S. Open, the first ever in Texas, so Leonard brought Maxwell back to toughen the course. He added 56 bunkers and created the present par-3 fourth and par-4 fifth (two of the famed Horrible Horseshoe trio of holes) and a par-3 13th (since replaced following a 1968 rechanneling of the Trinity River). Keith Foster’s 2008 restoration wasn’t to everyone’s satisfaction. In 2023, Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner initiated a warp-speed, total renovation of the design using Maxwell's 1941 modifications as a roadmap, a similar treatment they implemented when remodelinig Maxwell's Southern Hills in 2018, on display at the 2022 PGA Championship. This ranking does not reflect the Hanse/Wagner work: Their changes will be revealed in the 2027-'28 results.

    About

    Holes 18
    Length 7054
    Slope 133
    Facility Type Private
    Designer Perry Maxwell/(R) Keith Foster/(R) Gil Hanse & Jim Wagner (2023)

    Awards

    100 Greatest the Second 100
    Best Courses in Every State

    Ranking history:

    Second 100 Greatest: Ranked since 2013.
    Highest ranking:
    142nd, 2013-'14.
    Previous ranking:
    184th.
    2025-'26 ranking:
    182nd.

    100 Greatest: Ranked 1969 through 2008.
    Highest ranking: 22nd, 1985-'86.

    Best in State: Top 5 in state since 1977, ranked 1st in state 1985-2003, ranked 4th in state 2013-'22. Ranked fifth, 2023 to current.
    2025-'26 ranking (and previous): Fifth.

    Golf Digest Logo Panelists

    Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

    3.6

    100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

    Shot Options
    7.3473
    Character
    7.574
    Challenge
    7.4602
    Layout Variety
    7.2834
    Fun
    7.2149
    Aesthetics
    7.1253
    Conditioning
    7.3243

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